Sims, Michael
Summary: "The Adventures of Henry Thoreau-chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond after living in his long dreamed-of cabin for only two years--tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled young man found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID SIMSims, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529.1 SIMSSims, Michael.
Summary: As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WHITE SIMSContents: The roots. They opened the graves / by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ; Dead persons in Hungary / by Antoine Augustin Calmet ; The end of my journey / by George Gordon, Lord Byron ; The vampyre / by John Polidori ; Wake not the dead / attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck ; The deathly lover / by Thǒphile Gautier -- The tree. The family of the Vourdalak / by Aleksei Tolstoy ; Varney the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAManhattan Transfer (Musical group)
Contents: Tuxedo Junction (3:03) -- Sweet talking guy (2:25) -- Operator (3:09) -- Candy (3;26) -- Gloria (2:57) -- Clap your hands (2:55) -- That cat is high (2:53) -- You can depend on me (3:30) -- Blue champagne (2:21) -- Java jive (2:44) -- Occapella (3:04) -- Heart's desire (2:36).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1975
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL VOCAL MANBogenn, Tim
Summary: Live the epic odyssey of a legendary Greek Hero in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Explore a world of untamed environments and cities at the peak of Greece's Golden Age. Charge into epic clashes, showing off your extraordinary warrior abilities during one of the deadliest conflicts of the time, the Peloponnesian War. Experience an entire ancient world that constantly evolves and reacts to your every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK/Prima Games, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 0000