Driscoll, Jack
Summary: "Few short story writers have received the acclaim offered to Jack Driscoll over the decades. Here he has selected twenty of his best fictions...The qualities that make his work indelible ― his deeply intimate relationship with nature and people, his natural lyricism, the authentic way his credible narratives earn their mystery, all are here in this beautiful collection, the culmination of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DriscollTeagarden, Jack
Contents: She's a great, great girl (2 tracks) (with Roger Wolfe and his orchestra) -- I'm gonna stomp Mr. Henry Lee (2 tracks) ; That's a serious thing (2 tracks) (with Eddie Condon's Hot Shots) -- Tailspin blues ; Never had a reason to believe in you (with the Mound City Blue Blowers) -- Buy, buy for baby ; Sentimental baby ; Futuristic rhythm ; Louise ; My kinda love ; Sweetheart, we need each other ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TEACostanzo, Jack
Contents: Coco may may -- Viva tirado -- La la la -- El Resbaloso -- Chopsticks mambo -- Meado de cana -- abaniquite -- Cu cu ru curu -- Goza negra -- Just one of those things -- La bamba -- Caravan -- Chicken and rice -- Guantanamera -- Bongo festeris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GNP/Crescendo Record Co 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COSDurrell, Gerald Malcolm
Contents: Esmeralda.--Fred - or a touch of the warm south.--Retirement.--Marrying off mother.--Ludwig.--The jury.--Miss Booth-Wycherly's clothes.--A parrot for the parson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURLondon, Jack
Summary: Novels and stories of the Alaskan Klondike express London's concerns with the struggle for survival, the reassertion of the primitive, and regeneration through conflict
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LONColfer, Chris
Summary: "Mother Goose from The Land of Stories relates her adventures throughout history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLKaseke, Munashe
Summary: "In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candor, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mukana Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASDriscoll, Jack
Summary: Ten stories mostly set in Michigan's northern lower peninsula, a landscape as gorgeous as it is severe. If at times the situations in these stories appear hopeless, the characters nonetheless, and even against seemingly impossible odds, dare to hope. These fictional individuals are so compassionately rendered that they can hardly help but be, in the hands of this writer, not only redeemed but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRIKerouac, Jack
Summary: "In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERSummary: Duck on a bike : A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC DUCCanfield, Jack
Summary: A guide for understanding and using the Law of Attraction--a concept which states that people attract whatever they focus on--that includes instructions, exercises, and techniques to improve people's lives by changing the way they think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 120 CANKerouac, Jack
Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERChiang, Ted.
Summary: Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIO'Connell, Jack
Summary: Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young King Hussein, who would become America's most reliable Middle East ally. Over time, their bond of trust and friendship deepened. In 1967, O'Connell tipped off Hussein that Israel would invade Egypt the next morning. Later, as Hussein's Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 O'CONNELL, JACK O'CONewman, Renée
Summary: "The beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world. Since early times, diamonds have been treasured as good luck charms, remarkable tools and status symbols and have been worn, collected and presented as lavish gifts. Today, diamonds remain among the most sought-after gemstones and continue to hold their value through good times and bad. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553.8 NEWSummary: Pigling Bland's trip to market becomes an unexpected adventure when he meets Pig-wig, a lovely little pig who has been stolen, and offers to help her escape from the wicked farmer. The mischievous Tom Kitten falls into the grasp of a fat, greedy rat called Samuel Whiskers, who wants to enjoy Kitten Dumpling for his dinner. The enchanting story of a tailor working on a magnificent coat for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TALKerouac, Jack
Summary: The author reads his poetry. Includes previously unpublished "Washington D.C. Blues" and some tracks of Jack singing the swing thing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERColfer, Chris
Summary: With all of the fairy tale characters occupying the same world, Conner and Alex face their biggest challenge to date of restoring order to the human and fairy tale realms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC COLLucas, Jack
Summary: A candid combat memoir recalls the battlefield exploits of a seventeen-year-old Marine Corps private, whose selfless actions at the height of the Battle of Iwo Jima not only saved his companions, but also led to him becoming the youngest Marine in history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUCAS, JACK H. LUCWelch, Jack
Summary: The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 WELKelly, Jack
Contents: Prologue: the devil's distillate -- Fire drug -- Thundring noyse -- The most pernicious arts -- The devills birds -- Villainous saltpetre -- Conquest's crimson wing -- Nitro-aerial spirit -- No one reasons -- What victory costs -- History out of control -- The meeting of heaven and earth -- Appalling grandeur -- The old article -- Epilogue: something new.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KellyRoss, Jack
Summary: "At a time when the word "socialist" is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America's political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America's most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party's origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.28 ROSWintz, Jack.
Summary: A Franciscan friar uses the words of the Bible and the life and words of St. Francis to support his view that God's promise of a new creation at the end of time extends to the companion animals we have known and loved in this life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231.7 WINColfer, Chris
Summary: In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is "inside his own short stories!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016