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“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”—Chicago Tribune
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their...
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their...
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Those with the job of thinking the unthinkable face the greatest challenge of their lives.
Old orders are failing- tired democracies falter in the face of violence in the streets.
A storm of financial might and technological horror is gathering.
Calvin November, a messianic figure, makes a Presidential bid and an astonishing offer.
Primitive animal fear drives a messenger through a winter night with a warning nobody wants to hear.
The action moves...
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[Lasell] Native American
Dedham's National Native American Heritage Month List
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Dedham's National Native American Heritage Month List
Native American Heritage Month
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Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
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Playwright/performer Charlayne Woodard is a force of nature, and in The Night Watcher she finds a new way to explore her "mother" nature. Woodard describes her life as half of a childless couple, finding herself mysteriously drawn to second-hand parenting. With wisdom and wit, Woodward's acclaimed one-woman show strikes a chord for the longing of motherhood.
Written and performed by Charlayne Woodard. Directed by Stuart K. Robinson. Recorded by...
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"In The Watch that Ends the Night, Hugh MacLennan takes the reader back into the world of Montreal in the thirties and into the lives of his characters. George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, Catherine's first husband and George's closest friend. Martell, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, had travelled...
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"On Sunday, April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ship in the world, is 1,400 miles out to sea. More than two thousand men, women, and children are on board. In the distance, shrouded in darkness, and ancient iceberg lies in wait. In dozens of voices-from the unsinkable Mollly Brown to the captain who went down with the ship, from a young boy in search of dragons to a gambler in search of fools with money to lose, from the...
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How can we trust God in the dark?
Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. When she navigated a time of doubt and loss, the prayer was grounding for her. She writes: "It was this practice that gave me words for my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter doctrines of the church-the church's claims about...
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Song of ice and fire volume 5
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"In the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east--with new allies who may not be the ragtag band they seem. And in the frozen north, Jon Snow confronts creatures from beyond the Wall of ice and stone,...
10) Night watch
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"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
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Collier books. Classic volume AS381
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The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century.
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From USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, Sleepless in Scotland is a charming tale of loss, justice, and passion.
Captain Ian Bell is a tortured man fighting through grief and guilt over the loss of his sister. When she went missing, he searched for months until he found her remains. Now, three years later as the Deputy Lieutenant of Fife, Ian still hunts for her murderer in the dangerous criminal underworld of Edinburgh. He is the 'Night...
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"A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father's death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the time than most men. She too is battling for the inheritance...
14) The last watch
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Divide (Dewes) volume 1
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The edge of the universe is collapsing and taking everything with it. Can the exiles of the military stop it?
15) Unveiling Westeros: The Ultimate Guide for Unlocking the Psychology, Symbolism, Meanings and Motivat
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UNVEILING WESTEROS:
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR UNLOCKING THE PSYCHOLOGY, SYMBOLISM, MEANINGS AND MOTIVATIONS OF GAME OF THRONES
Welcome to "Unveiling Westeros: The Ultimate Guide For Unlocking The Psychology, Symbolism, Meanings And Motivations Of Game Of Thrones" the ultimate resource for fans of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking series. This comprehensive guide provides a deep dive into the world of Westeros, from the characters to the dragons...
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"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with his...
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Discworld volume 28
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Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth--a much nastier city, with an actively deranged Patrician and a sadistic secret police--and finding himself filling in for Keel, the tough honest copper who teaches the young Vimes everything he knows. And, more worryingly, who dies heroically in the insurrection Vimes knows to be imminent. With a psychopath from his own time rising in...
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2018
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A collection of the full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Terry Pratchett
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different...
Published for the very first time are seven full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of Terry Pratchett's novels, with star-studded casts including Martin Jarvis,
20) Station eleven
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
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