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Chansons Textes Art d'écrire Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Juvenile fiction Lizards Love Drama Lyric writing (Popular music) Meyer, Stephenie 1973- Film adaptations Popular music Writing and publishing Scots United States Fiction United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 FictionPattison, Kermit
Summary: "Fossil Men is the riveting science-adventure story of the brilliant team who discovered the "Ardi" skeleton, a human more than a million years older than the famous Lucy, and their 20-year quest to redefine our understanding of human evolution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.9 PATSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful K Street law firms. Through the obsessive efforts of its founder's son, Peter Morgan, his father's old-fashioned business has been transformed into a veritable goliath, embracing bankruptcy and merger divisions that Archibald Morgan had deemed ungentlemanly. As Peter reaches the pinnacle of his career, his firm is embroiled in two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROOPattinson, Robert
Summary: Having made her choice between living a fully human life or joining the world of immortals to be with her beloved Edward, Bella finds her future threatened by a series of events with potentially disastrous consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWI RATED PG-13Mattison, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.39 MATMattison, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.1 MATPattison, Eliot
Summary: "When a ship arriving from London explodes in Boston Harbor, both the peace of the colonial city and Duncan McCallum's life are shattered ... Duncan discovers that the ship was deliberately sabotaged, apparently to cover the theft by French agents provocateurs of a secret document being carried to the Sons of Liberty ... Fearing that the intrigues of [John] Hancock and the Sons might set the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPattison, Eliot.
Summary: Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and seeming suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners that thrusts him into a bloody maw of the French and Indian War. As the only man aboard with any medical training, Duncan is ordered to assemble evidence to hold another prisoner accountable for the deaths - or face punishment that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPattison, Pat
Summary: "Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries makes it fun with more than 150 exercises and prompts designed to inspire and improve your work. For songwriters, poets--even novelists--it's a creative way to: tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details; effectively use metaphor and comparative language; [and] add rhythm to your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PATMattison, Christopher.
Summary: The subject of this narrative is the generic snake. Intended for amateur herpetologists and general naturalists the work treats the origin, evolution and classification of snakes and then discusses morphology and function, how and where snakes live (habitat, adaptations and world patterns), feeding, defense, and reproduction. A chapter deals with the relationships of snakes and humans, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 MATManiscalco, Kerri
Summary: Seventeen year old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. Between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANMattison, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blandford 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.395 MATKermit the Frog
Summary: A revised edition of the best-selling book Before You Leap: A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons. This updated edition is a fun, full color gift book which includes two brand new chapters. It's sure to delight kids and adults! Kermit the Frog shares his own story in a funny, heartfelt manner about his life and yours. After telling the tale of his remarkable career, and about all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KERPattison, Eliot
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPattison, Eliot.
Summary: In 1760, with the aid of the Indian Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. His new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed to an Indian shrine tree. To their horror, the authorities arrest Conawago and schedule his hanging. As Duncan begins a desperate search for the truth, he finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPattinson, Robert
Summary: After becoming a vampire, Bella finds her and her daughter's futures threatened by a series of events with potentially disastrous consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWI RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: YA DVD Breaking 2013Hangry Hermit
Summary: Created by The Hangry Hermit, Really?!? is a light-hearted comic strip that welcomes you into the lives of an average Asian-Canadian family. With a speed-cubing big sister, a mischievous little sister and a Mom who has mastered 'the look of true exasperation,' Dad is a comic artist who shares their sweet daily moments in this book. From encounters with ancestral moths to overly mature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [the Hangry Hermit] 2020
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Summary: Presents a comprehensive guide to reptiles and amphibians of North America, and contains full-color illustrated photographs and drawings that describe eighty-two species, their body structure, habitats, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.9 MATMattison, Christopher.
Summary: An introduction to the origins, physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of lizards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.95 MATPattison, Pat
Summary: "Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics. Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition to more advanced techniques....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PATPattison, Eliot
Summary: "When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPattison, Eliot
Summary: "Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATMattison, Alice.
Summary: On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl, the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers with babies, Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Mattison, Alice.
Summary: A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016