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Adultery Fiction Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction Haunted houses Fiction Illegitimate children Fiction Psychological fiction Puritans Fiction Salem (Mass.) Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Women immigrants Fiction Women Massachusetts FictionJames, Henry
Contents: Professor Fargo -- Eugene Pickering -- Benvolio -- Crawford's consistency -- The ghostly rental -- Four meetings -- Rose-Agathe -- Daisy Miller: a study -- Longstaff's marriage -- An international episode -- The pension beaurepas -- The diary of a man of fifty -- A bundle of letters -- The point of view -- The siege of London -- The impressions of a cousin -- Lady Barberina -- Pandora -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMPhilbrick, Nathaniel
Summary: "The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 PHISummary: For many, The Scarlet Letter represents the pinnacle of 19th-century literature. In this program, three leading Hawthorne scholars use the novel and several Hawthorne short stories to explore issues of interpretation and literary analysis. Each work is discussed in relation to American culture and political events. Significant details of Hawthorne's life are also illuminated. Experts include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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James, Henry
Contents: A tragedy of error. -- The story of a year. -- A landscape painter. -- A day of days. -- My friend Bingham. -- Poor Richard. -- The story of a masterpiece. -- The romance of certain old clothes. -- A most extraordinary case. -- A problem. -- De Grey: a romance. -- Osborne's revenge. -- A light man. -- Gabrielle de Bergerac. -- Travelling companions. -- A passionate pilgrim. -- At Isella. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1985
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAWTHHarris, Nathaniel
Contents: How deserts form -- Sand, rock, and rubble -- Plants of the desert -- Creatures of the desert -- The desert in history -- The modern desert -- Wealth from the desert -- Spreading deserts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fitzroy Dearborn 2003
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 910.0215 HARRich, Nathaniel
Summary: "By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 RICPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, the 20-man crew set out in three small boats for South America, almost 3,000 miles away. Three months later, only eight were left alive. This book shares a fantastic saga of survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 PHIHawthorne, Nathaniel.
Summary: Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: 1n a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWSylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett
Contents: General history of Ulster County, and of the city and town of Kingston -- History of the towns of Ulster County.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everts & Peck 1880
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 974.734 SYLHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: A powerful tale of forbidden love, shame, and revenge comes to life in Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter. Faithfully adapted by Crystal Chan from the original novel, this new edition features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee (Manga Classics: Les Miserables) which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into the Nathaniel Hawthorne's tragic saga of Puritan America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Udon Entertainment 2015
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Summary: Hephzibah tries to shelter her brother from the evil of Judge Pyncheon in this novel set in Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015
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Summary: Hester Prynne and her lover feel the effects of sin in Puritan New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Travel back to Boston, Massachusetts as it existed in the 1642 for this classic tale of Puritanical Romance and sin. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. This classic tale is a must-read for everyone as it explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel.
Summary: A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2009
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hester Prynn, a young woman in Puritan Massachusetts, publicly bears the burden of her sin of adultery while her husband secretly exacts his revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HawMcPherson, James M.
Summary: Recounts the naval campaigns of the Civil War, discussing the daring and innovation of the Confederate navy in sinking Union ships, and the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast and victories in some of the war's most strategic battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012