Contents: From The adventures of Roderick Random / Tobias Smollett -- From Memoirs of a woman of pleasure / John Cleland -- From The history of Henry Dumont, esq. / Charlotte Gibber Charke -- I and my chimney / Herman Melville -- From Joseph and his friend : a story of Pennsylvania / Bayard Taylor -- From South sea idyls. In a transport / Charles Warren Stoddard -- From Marius the epicurean / Walter...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.8 MITEd Schrader's Music Beat (Musical group)
Contents: Dunce -- Seagull -- Riddles -- Dizzy devil -- Wave to the water -- Rust -- Kid radium -- Humbucker blues -- Tom -- Culebra.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SCHSummary: English is a language spoken by two billion people, perhaps even more. This classic PBS program examines the prevalence of English in the world today and presents a historical overview of its rise. Focusing on the expansion of the British Empire and the emergence of English-language mass media, the program explains how widespread English usage survived Britain's post-WWII decolonization,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Libal, Autumn.
Summary: Considers the lessons to be found in North American folk proverbs and riddles, looks at their origins, and discusses their appearance in history, advertising, the health world, and other venues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.9 LIBSummary: In 'Dora had a Little Lamb': Little Lamb gets lost, but Dora and Boots know where to go. In 'Call me Mr. Riddles': Boots loves riddles so much that he wants to be called Mr. Riddles and he wants to go to Tall Mountain to solve the silliest riddle in the Riddle Contest. In 'Backpack': When Dora received Backpack from her parents she receives more than just a gift. In 'Big river': Boots loses a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORLeadbelly
Contents: New Orleans -- Goodnight Irene -- Where did you sleep last night -- How long -- John Hardy -- When I was a cowboy -- Pretty flower in your backyard -- Roberta -- Pretty flower in your backyard -- Yellow gal -- Looky, looky yonder -- Black Betty -- Yellow women's doorbells -- Po Howard -- Green corn -- De kalb blues -- Gallis pole -- The bourgeois blues -- Noted rider (She's no good rider) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RYKODISC 2002
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LEABad English (Musical group)
Contents: Best of what I got / J. Waite, J. Cain, N. Schon -- Heaven is a 4 letter word / N. Schon, J. Cain, J. Waite, M. Spiro -- Possession / J. Waite, J. Cain, R. Phillips -- Forget me not / J. Waite, J. Cain, M. Spiro -- When I see you smile / D. Warren -- Tough times don't last / J. Cain, D. Roberts, J. Waite -- Ghost in your heart / J. Waite, M. Page, J. Cain -- Price of love / J. Waite, J. Cain --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A work of cultural anthropology and a fascinating exploration of the vanishing oral traditions of Southern Appalachia"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, A Division of Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 FOXSummary: The Scottish tongue is one of the oldest in Britain, a Northern variety of English that, but for the accidents of history, might have become a separate language. This classic PBS program deals with the influence of the Scots in spreading the language of their historic enemies-the Sassenachs of the South-around the world. The program begins in the 15th century, the golden age of the Scottish...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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English, Ashley
Summary: Instructs readers on how to make their own butter, cheese, cultured dairy products, and ice cream from scratch, while also providing such recipes as macaroni and cheese and chilled cucumber yogurt soup.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Crafts 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Pre EnglishRitchie, Donald A.
Summary: "Doing Oral History has become one of the premier resources in the field of oral history. It explores all aspects of oral history, from starting an oral history project--including funding, staffing, and equipment--to conducting interviews, publishing, videotaping, preserving materials, teaching oral history, and using oral history in museums and on the radio. In this second edition, the author...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.2 RITEnglish, Ashley
Summary: Whether you want to make pickles from cucumbers grown in your own garden or turn those berries you scored at the farmers' market into delicious jam, here's the book that will make it fun and simple--even if you're a beginner. Ashley English offers clear information to help you get started, how-to steps, invaluable troubleshooting tips, tons of inspiration, plus profiles of home canners.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Pre EnglishEnglish, Ashley
Summary: At home in spacious homesteads and simple backyards, chickens produce a wonderful source of sustainable, nutritious food and make wonderful pets. With generous doses of experience and humor, Ashley English shares the essential information you'll need to start and maintain your own flock.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 ENGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 EngCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal EnglishEnglish, Ashley
Summary: Offers a beginner's overview of beekeeping, including space and time considerations; local ordinances; and the basics of acquiring, housing, maintaining, and caring for bees year round, as well as ten recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Crafts 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home EnglishBooth, Thomas
Summary: "[This book] presents more than 1,000 idioms and expressions in context, with clear, simple definitions and attractive illustrations. Work through the tightly focused practice exercises and listen to the free audio to commit the English phrases to memory and make your English more fluent and natural."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOSummary: Once a common sight at Easter in Mexico, displays of los judas - or large devil figures made of paper - have, like so many other folk customs across Latin America, become increasingly rare. In an attempt to save the ritual from extinction, the city of San Luis Potosi sponsors a yearly competition prompting the creation of a small army of the paper grotesques. This program follows three folk...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Novillero
Contents: Life in parentheses -- A little tradition -- Shadowboxing -- Standup for our side -- Plastic flag -- Daydreams & distractions -- Lost possibilities -- Prank note -- Paco rabanne -- Printed word (sucks for inflection) -- Daydream reprise -- Far from too far -- Camaraderie or bust
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mint Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOVPrefontaine, M.
Summary: "Over 300 riddles and puzzles which will challenge smart kids and the whole family. They are designed to test logic, lateral thinking as well as memory and to engage the brain in seeing patterns and connections between different things and circumstances."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Misc PrefontaineSummary: Part performance, part competition, poetry slams are boosting poetry's popularity with children, teens, and even adults. In section one of this NewsHour report, Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with nationally ranked slammers Ariana Waynes and Roger Bonair-Augard about the concept of slamming and their experiences with the genre. In section two, Spencer Michels investigates the positive impact that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: "A comprehensive visual guide to English grammar with clear, simple explanations that are ideal for learners of all levels,"--page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 ENGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 ENGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 ENGSummary: Three versions of the Judgment of Solomon story illustrate the changes that have taken place in the English language across more than a millennium: from Aelfric's 10th-century account of how Solomon's wisdom reached to the truth, through Middle, to Early Modern and Modern English. At each stage, the grammar and vocabulary of the pieces are analyzed, as are the social assumptions of the writers....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
Contents: El súchil = The marigold -- Yo = I -- Parranda larga = The long binge -- La petenera : medley. La peternera ; Tata Dios ; La Cecilia -- A los cuatro vientos = To the four winds -- El framboyán = The flamboyant tree -- La morena = The dark woman -- Nuestro gran amor = Our great love -- El silencio de la noche = The silence of the night -- El arreo = The roundup -- Sones de antaño = Songs from...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MARIrwin, Bobbie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2000