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The exiles : a novel / by Kline, Christina Baker,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to 'the land beyond the seas,' Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel--a skilled midwife and herbalist--is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Exile (Punishment); Women; Female friendship; Penal colonies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A match made in Texas / by Lane, Katie.;
Subjects: Love stories.; Bramble (Tex. : Imaginary place); Community service (Punishment); Divorced men; Sheriffs;
© 2014., Forever,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Arctic storm rising : a novel / by Brown, Dale,1956-author.;
After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity. As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible first strike, using Russia's new long-range stealth cruise missiles? Or is some other motive driving the Kremlin to take ever-increasing risks along the hostile Arctic frontier separating two of the world's great powers? When an American F-22 collides with one of the Russian interlopers, things go south fast, in seconds, missiles are fired. There are no survivors. Despite horrific weather, Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash sites ahead of the Russians. It's now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA are withholding vital information, but Flynn and his men have no choice but to make the dangerous jump. Soon they're caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with Spetsnaz commandos operating covertly on American soil. It seems that the F-22s and their Russian counterparts aren't the first aircraft to have gone missing in these desolate mountains. The Kremlin is hunting for the first prototype of its new stealth bomber, which vanished on what was supposed to be a test flight, while loaded with nuclear-armed stealth cruise missiles. As Russia and the U.S. square off on the brink of all-out-war, it's up to Nick to find the missing bomber, and prevent a potential nuclear holocaust.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Air Force; Intelligence officers; Aircraft accidents; Exile (Punishment); Bombings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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A boy is not a bird / by Ravel, Edeet,1955-;
A young boy named Natt finds his world overturned when his family is uprooted and exiled to Siberia during the occupation of the Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany. In 1941, life in Natt's small town of Zastavna is comfortable and familiar, even if the grown ups are acting strange, and his parents treat him like a baby. Natt knows there's a war on, of course, but he's glad their family didn't emigrate to Canada when they had a chance. His mother didn't want to leave their home, and neither did he. He especially wouldn't want to leave his best friend, Max. Max is the ideas guy, and he hears what's going on in the world from his older sisters. Together the boys are two brave musketeers. Then one day Natt goes home and finds his family huddled around the radio. The Russians are taking over. The churches and synagogues will close, Hebrew school will be held in secret, and there are tanks and soldiers in the street. But it's exciting, too. Natt wants to become a Young Pioneer, to show outstanding revolutionary spirit and make their new leader, Comrade Stalin, proud. But life under the Russians is hard. The soldiers are poor. They eat up all the food and they even take over Natt's house. Then Natt's father is arrested, and even Natt is detained and questioned. He feels like a nomad, sleeping at other people's houses while his mother works to free his father. As the adults try to protect him from the reality of their situation, and local authorities begin to round up deportees bound for Siberia, Natt is filled with a sense of guilt and grief. Why wasn't he brave enough to look up at the prison window when his mother took him to see his father for what might be the last time? Or can just getting through war be a heroic act in itself?LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Exile (Punishment); Friendship; Families;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The fall of Koli / by Carey, M. R.,1959-author.;
"Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood. In his search for the fabled tech of the Old Times, he knew he'd be battling shunned men, strange beasts and trees that move as fast as whips. But he has already encountered so much more than he bargained for. Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following - the mysterious "Sword of Albion" - there is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something. They're searching for a way to help humanity fight back against nature. But what they'll find is an ancient war that never ended ... "--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Apocalyptic fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Teenage boys; Villages; Poisonous plants; Forests and forestry; Outcasts; Quests (Expeditions); Exile (Punishment); Survival;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Finding normal [videorecording] / by Beatty, Lou,Jr.,actor.; Bongiorno, Andrew,actor.; Cameron-Bure, Candace,1976-; Herzlinger, Brian,film director.; St. John, Trevor,actor.; Pure Flix Entertainment.; UP Network (Firm);
Music, Will Musser ; director of photography, Akis Konstantakopoulos ; editor, Blak Barrie.Candace Cameron Bure, Trevor Marshall St. John, Lou Beatty Jr., Andrew Bongiorno.The only thing standing between Dr. Lisa Leland and the wedding of her dreams in the Hamptons is a 2,600-mile drive from Los Angeles to her new life. However, a run-in with the law in the country town of Normal, NC, leaves Dr. Leland with a choice: jail or community service. Sentenced to serve three days as the town's doctor, Lisa has her world turned upside down by a man she would never expect. Quickly, Lisa finds that there's a lot more to Normal than she could have ever imagined.PG.DVD ; all regions ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Community service (Punishment); Made-for-TV movies.; Small cities; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women physicians;
© 2014., Pure Flix Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row / by Hinton, Anthony Ray,author.; Hardin, Lara Love,author.; Stevenson, Bryan,writer of foreword.;
Subjects: Hinton, Anthony Ray; Capital punishment; Compensation for judicial error; Death row inmates; Death row; Mistaken identity; Trials (Murder);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jarhead [videorecording]. by Gyllenhaal, Jake; Foxx, Jamie; Sarsgaard, Peter;
Director, Sam Mendes.Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard.Based on the book by Anthony Swofford about his experiences in Operation Desert Storm, from his rigorous Marine basic training to the punishing heat of the desert, and the intolerable long wait for battle.CHVRS rating: R.DVD.
Subjects: War.; War.;
© 2006., Universal,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Scarlet Letter. by G., Robert,film director.; Moore, Colleen,actor.; Albright, Hardie,actor.; B., Henry,actor.; MVD Entertainment Group (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. WalthallOriginally produced by MVD Entertainment Group in 1934.Bearing a child out of wedlock was punishable in 17th century Massachusetts by being forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A,' but unwed mother Hester Prynne, who was born to a noble family, is determined to rise above her situation.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion Pictures.; Historical films.;
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The Scarlet Letter. by G., Robert,film director.; Moore, Colleen,actor.; Albright, Hardie,actor.; B., Henry,actor.; MVD Entertainment Group (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. WalthallOriginally produced by MVD Entertainment Group in 1934.Bearing a child out of wedlock was punishable in 17th century Massachusetts by being forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A,' but unwed mother Hester Prynne, who was born to a noble family, is determined to rise above her situation.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion Pictures.; Historical drama.;
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