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The best of sisters in crime / by Wallace, Marilyn.(CARDINAL)749992;

Afraid all the time / Nancy Pickard -- All the lonely people / Marcia Muller -- Blood types / Julie Smith -- Hog heaven / Gillian Roberts -- The celestial buffet / Susan Dunlap -- Too much to bare / Joan Hess -- A poison that leaves no trace / Sue Grafton -- The evidence exposed / Elizabeth George -- Upstaging murder / Carolyn G. Hart -- Voices in the coalbin / Mary Higgins Clark -- The high cost of living / Dorothy Cannell -- Say you're sorry / Sarah Shankman -- A tale of two pretties / Marilyn Wallace -- The Maltese cat / Sara Paretsky -- Nine sons / Wendy Hornsby -- Lieutenant Harald and the impossible gun / Margaret Maron -- A predatory women / Sharyn McCrumb -- Life, for short / Carolyn Wheat -- Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates -- One hit wonder / Gabrielle Kraft -- Cold turkey / Diane Mott Davidson.

Subjects: Fiction.; Detective and mystery stories, American.; American fiction; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4

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The ultimate guide to male sexual health : how to stay vital at any age / by Danoff, Dudley Seth.(CARDINAL)370183;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.

Subjects: Penis.; Masculinity.; Impotence.; Penis.; Erectile dysfunction.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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To sleep in a sea of stars / by Paolini, Christopher,author.(CARDINAL)669667;

During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact is not at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. Now Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation-- and Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope.-- adapted from jacketAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Science fiction.; Human-alien encounters; Space colonies; Interplanetary voyages; Space warfare;

Available copies: 81 / Total copies: 104

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Unexpected : the backstory of finding Elizabeth Smart and growing up in the culture of an American religion / by Thomas, Chris(Christopher Shane),1972 or 1973-author.; Smart, Elizabeth,1987-writer of foreword.;

"The backstory of finding Elizabeth Smart and how growing up in the Mormon culture pushed the author to develop the exact kind of intuition that was needed to help manage Elizabeth's kidnapping and rescue while the world watched. Chris Thomas is not yet thirty years old when he finds himself managing the immense pressure, eccentric personalities, and extenuating circumstances of an international story, where one small misstep could adversely impact the search for a missing teenager and the reputation of her family. Now, twenty years later, Thomas takes readers behind the scenes, providing new details, perspectives, and commentary on finding Elizabeth Smart. In the process of reflecting on Elizabeth's search and rescue, Thomas discovers how growing up in the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as Mormon) helped push him to develop the exact kind of intuition needed to manage Elizabeth's kidnapping and rescue, and to do so while the world watched. Unexpected juxtaposes crucial events from the Smart case with Thomas's experience growing up in the Latter-day Saint culture, including coming to understand the secret of a broken war hero before it was too late." --

Subjects: Biographies.; Thomas, Chris, (publicist); Smart, Elizabeth, 1987-; Kidnapping victims; Kidnapping; Missing children; Latter Day Saint children;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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Mel Gibson's Passion and philosophy : the cross, the questions, the controversy / by Gracia, Jorge J. E.(CARDINAL)725609;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Jesus Christ; Passion of the Christ (Motion picture);

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The big book of female detectives / by Penzler, Otto,editor.(CARDINAL)351801;

"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more"--

Subjects: Short stories.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories, American.; Detective and mystery stories, English.; Women detectives; Murder;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7

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Milton, by Walter Raleigh. by Raleigh, Walter,1861-1922.(CARDINAL)132890;

Introduction : "Sciences of conceit" ; The difficulties and imperfections of literary criticism ; Illustrated in the case of Shakespeare ; And of Milton ; The character and temper of Milton ; Intensity, simplicity, egotism ; His estimate of himself -- I. John Milton : His birth and death ; His education ; Early life in London ; Ships and shipping ; Adventurers and players ; Milton and the Elizabethan drama ; The poetic masters of his youth ; State of the Church of England ; Baxter's testimony ; Growing unrest ; Milton's early poems ; The intrusion of politics ; The farewell to mirth ; The Restoration, and Milton's attitude ; The lost paradise of the early poems ; Milton's Puritanism ; His melancholy ; The political and public preoccupations of the later poems ; The drama of Milton's life ; His egotism explained ; An illustration from Lycidas ; The lost cause ; The ultimate triumph -- II. The prose works : Poets and politics ; Practical aim of Milton's prose writings ; The reforms of advocated by him, with one exception, unachieved ; Critical mourners over Milton's political writings ; The mourners comforted ; Milton's classification of his prose tracts ; The occasional nature of these tracts ; Allusions in the early prose works to the story of Samson, and to the theme of Paradise Lost ; Milton's attitude towards medieval romance, and towards the medieval Church ; His worship of liberty ; And of greatness ; His belief in human capacity and virtue ; Milton and Cromwell ; Milton's clear logic ; His tenacity ; His scurrility, and its excuse ; His fierce and fantastic wit ; Reappearance of these qualities in Paradise Lost ; The style of his prose works analyzed and illustrated ; His rich vocabulary ; His use of Saxon ; The making of an epic post -- III. Paradise lost: the scheme : Vastness of the theme ; Scenical opportunities ; The poetry independent of the creed ; Milton's choice of subject ; King Arthur ; Paradise Lost ; Attractions of the theme: primitive religion, natural beauty, dramatic interest ; Difficulties of the theme, and forbidden topics ; How Milton overcomes these difficulties by his episodes, his similes, and the tradition that he adopts concerning the fallen angels ; The cosmography of Paradise Lose ; Its chronology ; Some difficulties and inconsistencies ; Milton's spiritual beings, their physical embodiment ; The poem no treasury of wisdom, but a world-drama ; Its inhumanity and artificial elevation ; The effect of Milton's simpler figures drawn from rural life ; De Quincey's explanation of this effect ; Another explanation ; The homelessnes of Eden ; The enchanted palace and its engineer ; The tyranny of Milton's imagination ; Its effect on his diction.IV. Paradise lost: the actors, the later poems : Milton's argumentative end ; Its bearing on the scenes in Heaven ; His political bias, and materialism ; Milton's Deity ; His Satan ; The minor devils ; Adam ; Eve ; Personal memories ; Adam's eulogy of Eve, critised by Raphael ; Milton's philosophy of love and beauty ; The opinions of Raphael, of Satan, an of Mrs. Millamast ; The comparative merits of Adam and Eve ; Milton's great epic effects ; His unity and large decorum ; Morning and evening ; Architectura effects ; The close of Paradise Lost ; Addison and Bentley ; Paradise Regained ; The choice of subject ; Milton's favourite theme, temptation ; Other possible subjects ; the Harrying of Hell ; Samson Agonistes ; The riddle of life -- V. The style of Milton: meter and diction : Difficulties of literary genealogy ; The ledger school of criticism ; Milton's strength and originality ; His choice of a sacred subject ; Earlier attempts in England and France ; Boileau's opinion ; Milton's choice of metre an innovation ; The little influence on Milton of Spenser and of Donne ; Milton a pupil of the dramatists ; The history of dramatic blank verse ; Milton's handling of the measure ; The "elements of musical delight" ; Tennyson's blank verse ; Milton's metrical licenses ; The Choruses of Samson Agonistes ; Milton's diction a close-wrought mosaic ; Compared with the diffuser diction of Spenser ; Conciseness of Virgil, Dryden, Pope, Milton ; Homer's repetitions ; Repetitions and "turns of words and thoughts" rare in Milton ; Double meanings of words ; Milton's puns ; Extenuating circumstances ; His mixed metaphors and violent syntax, due to compression ; Milton poetical style a dangerous model ; The spontaneity and license of his prose -- VI. The style of Milton: its influence on English poetry : The relation of Milton's work to the 17th century "reforms" of verse and prose ; The Classicism of Milton, and of the Augustans ; Classic and Romantic schools contrasted in their descriptions ; Milton's Chaos, Shakespeare's Dover Cliff ; Johnson's comments ; The besetting sins of the two schools ; Milton's physical machinery justified ; His use of abstract terms ; The splendid use of mean associations by Shakespeare ; Milton's wise avoidance of mean associations, and of realism ; Nature of his similes and figures ; His use of proper names ; His epic catalogues ; His personifications ; Loftiness of his perfected style ; The popularity of Paradise Lost ; Imitations, adaptations, and echoes of Milton's style during the 18th century ; His enormous influence ; The origin of "poetic diction" ; Milton's phraseology stolen by Pope, Thomson, and Gray ; The degradation of Milton's style by his pupils and paradists -- Epilogue : Milton's contemporaries ; The poetry of Religion, and of Love ; Henry Vaughan ; The Court lyrists ; Milton's contempt for them ; How they surpass him ; Sedley ; Rochester ; The prophet of the Lord and the sons of Belial ; Unique position of Milton in the history of our literature.

Subjects: Biographies.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Nance Dude [videorecording] / by Westall, Elizabeth.;

Elizabeth Westall.A sympathetic view of Nance Dude, the Haywood County woman who, in 1913, disposed of her granddaughter in a closed-up cave, performed as a monolgue. The legendary pariah reveals what she had endured as a woman trapped in poverty. What she says is a blend of folklore, some compelling evidence of "extenuating circumstances" and a good bit of dramatic invention.DVD.

Subjects: Kerley, Nancy Ann, 1848-1952;

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