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1321) A storm in the stars
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot air balloon lands not far from the Thames. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his three sisters by telling them stories and performing tricks with chemicals and fire. A few years later Mary and Percy meet and fall in love in the Godwin...
1322) NYPD green: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this gritty, sometimes hilarious, but always brutally honest memoir, Irish immigrant and retired NYPD homicide detective Luke Waters shares the darker and harder side of the police force that "will make you sit up, stay up, and keep reading" (Edward Conlon, author of Blue Blood). Growing up in the rough outskirts of northern Dublin at a time when joining the guards, the army, or the civil service was the height of most parents' ambitions for their...
1323) Vagabond
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was a dirty job in a dirty war. Danny Curnow, known in the army by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents and informers. He played God with their lives and their deaths, and was the best at his job--and he quit when the stress overwhelmed him. Now he lives in quiet isolation, until the call comes from an old boss: Violence in Northern Ireland is on the rise again. Weapons are needed for a new campaign. Gaby Davies of MI5, sparky and ambitious, runs...
1324) Seven
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (2 hr., 11 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary theater collaboration by seven award-winning female playwrights based on personal interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries of Russia (Marina Pisklakova-Parker), Argentina (Laura Alonso), Northern Ireland (Inez McCormack), Cambodia (Mu Sochua), Nigeria (Hafsat Abiola), Afghanistan (Farida Azizi), and Pakistan...
1325) How to build a boat
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funny and deeply moving novel about a boy, his dream, and the people who lend him a hand, by the acclaimed author of As You Were Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother,...
1326) Naked world
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film explores the role that nudity plays in various cultures and the ongoing debate about nudity in legitimate art, as controversial installation artist/ photographer Spencer Tunick attempts to photograph naked people on all seven continents. Mass human nakedness creates abstract landscapes, seas of bodies rolling like water, commenting, perhaps, on the dehumanizing effect of miles of concrete on the self-expression of urbanites. Juxtaposing...
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