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Summary: Records one woman's response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINHustad, Douglas
Summary: When Russia sent Sputnik 1 into space, the country launched not only a satellite but a new age. Many popular stories about American advancements during the space age have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Space Age dives into the myths about the history of NASA and space exploration and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.9 HUSGagne, Tammy
Summary: The telephone, the lightbulb, and the airplane are all inventions have changed the world for the better. But many popular stories about the creation of American inventions have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Invention dives into the myths about inventors and their inventions and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J670 GAGGagne, Tammy
Summary: In the years following Christopher Columbus's expedition, Europeans made homes for themselves in the Americas and pushed out the indigenous peoples already living there. Many popular stories about life in the early American colonies have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Colonization dives into the myths about colonization and brings the truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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Summary: Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the birth of the nation and the heroes who brought it about. But many popular stories about the American Revolution have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the American Revolution dives into the myths about the war fought between the patriots and the redcoats and brings the truth to light....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Although her fieldwork has been criticized, Margaret Mead was one of the foremost fieldworkers of her day. In the United States, Bali, and New Guinea, she examined child development, sex, and temperament to see what role society plays in making people what they are. She emphasized that humans arrange their social worlds in many different ways, and that qualitative judgments cannot be made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: "Sparked by the secession of the Southern states and the creation of the Confederacy, the Civil War raged between 1861 and 1865. But many popular stories about the Civil War have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Civil War dives into the myths about the war fought over slavery and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7 GALGoyal, Nikhil
Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOYWilliams, Ben
Contents: Black villain music -- Strength and beauty -- Half steppin' -- Voice of freedom (for Mandela) (featuring Goapele) -- Toy soldiers -- Lost & found -- Forecast -- The color of my dreams -- Smells like teen spirit --Toy soldiers -- Coming of age.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WILContents: The fightin' side of me (Merle Haggard and the Strangers) -- Coal miner's daughter (Loretta Lynn) -- Easy loving (Freddie Hart) -- Woman (Sensuous woman) (Don Gibson) -- Hello darlin' (Conway Twitty) -- Would you take another chance on me (Jerry Lee Lewis) -- He loves me all the way (Tammy Wynette) -- Loving you could never be better (George Jones) -- Empty arms (Sonny James) -- Help me make...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONContents: Just good ol' boys / Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley -- Whiskey bent and hell bound / Hank Williams Jr. -- I'm always on a mountain when I fall / Merle Haggard -- Don't take it away / Conway Twitty -- Talking in your sleep / Crystal Gayle -- She can put her shoes under my bed (anytime) / Johnny Duncan -- It's all wrong, but it's all right / Dolly Parton -- Last cheater's waltz / T.G. Sheppard --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CONSummary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRORips, Nicolaia
Summary: "'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPS, NICOLAIA RIPContents: Letter to America / Francisco Alarcon -- Lawd, dese Colored chillum / Fareedah Allah -- Powwow / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Song of the breed / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Late bus (after a series of hold-ups) / Russell Atkins -- So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- There are black / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud -- The lovers of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LETReece, Dizzy.
Contents: Ye olde blues (6:40) -- The case of the frightened lover (5:42) -- Tenderly (9:02) -- Achmet (8:28) -- The story of love (10:09) -- Sands (6:40) -- comin' on (6:44) -- Goose Dance (6:49) -- The things we did last summer (6:17).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ REEFitz, Caitlin
Summary: "A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 FITQueens of the Stone Age
Contents: Regular John -- Avon -- If only -- Walkin on the sidewalks -- You would know -- The bronze -- How to handle a rope (a lesson in the lariat) -- Mexicola -- Hispanic impressions -- You can't quit me baby -- These aren't the droids you're looking for -- Give the mule what he wants -- Spiders and vinegaroons -- I was a teenage hand model.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings/Rekords Rekords 2010
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK QUELondon, Martha
Summary: "Books, television shows, and movies have illustrated the adventures of cowboys, sharpshooters, and outlaws of the Wild West. But many popular stories about the American West have gotten some facts wrong and left others out altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Wild West dives into the myths about what life was like for settlers and Native American peoples in the West and brings the truth to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J978 LONAllitt, Patrick
Summary: "Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts."-- From dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 ALLSummary: Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 COMContents: Diggin' up bones (Randy Travis) -- Let's chase each other around the room (Merle Haggard) -- She sure got away with my heart (John Anderson) -- I'll never stop loving you (Gary Morris ) -- Whoever's in New England (Reba McEntire) -- High horse (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Desperado love (Conway Twitty) -- Elizabeth (Statler Brothers) -- She's single again (Janie Frickie) -- Mona Lisa lost her...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1992