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American wit and humor Bed and breakfast accommodations Fiction Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Drama Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Fiction Cuentos de hadas Teatro Fairy tales Drama Friendship Fiction Large type books Man-woman relationships Fiction Monsters Juvenile fictionGates, Henry Louis.
Summary: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.0496 GATSexton, Jared
Summary: "The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the cultural forces that divided both parties and powered Donald Trump into the White House. Featuring in-the-field reports as well as deep analysis, Sexton's book is not just the story of the most unexpected and divisive election in modern political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 SEXMarsico, Katie
Summary: As parasites that attach themselves to humans and a variety of other unsuspecting hosts, lice are far from the most well-loved animal species on Earth. However, there is a lot to learn about these interesting creatures. Readers will find out where lice live, why they attach themselves to other animals, and how they can spread diseases. They will also learn how these insects reproduce and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 MARJensen, Danielle L.
Summary: In a world divided by meddlesome gods and treacherous oceans, only the Maarin possess the knowledge to cross the Endless Seas. But they have one mandate: East must never meet West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After following his dreams to go on tour, Trace returns to an uncertain future with Abby. Kevin plans a special outing with Sarah. Though happy with her own relationship with David, running his family's inn together does not meet Jess's expectations. Fresh off penning a national bestseller, Bree meets with potential producers for a new play. Meanwhile, Mick discovers one of his contractors has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 4Williams, Dar.
Contents: As cool as I am -- If I wrote you -- Spring street -- I won't be your Yoko Ono intro -- I won't be your Yoko Ono -- February -- The ocean -- Better things -- Iowa -- End of the summer -- We learned the sea -- Are you out there intro -- Are you out there -- When I was a boy -- What do you hear in these sounds -- After all -- The babysitter's here intro -- The babysitter's here -- The Christians...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Razor & Tie 2001
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WILChesney, Kenny
Contents: Flora-bama (4:31) -- Summertime (4:28) -- Big star / (with Taylor Swift) (5:06) -- Boston (6:45) -- When I see this bar / (wtih Eric Church) (9:12) -- No shoes, no shirt, no problems (3:33) -- Anything but mine (6:02) -- Down the road / (with Mac McAnally) (3:09) -- Guitars and tiki bars (4:19) -- Hemingway's whiskey (4:05) -- Everybody wants to go to heaven / (with Zac Brown Band) (3:00) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CHEWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: When "Maddening Moira" O'Malley, the woman with whom he had a fling during his Dublin holiday, pays a surprise visit to Chesapeake Shores, Luke O'Brien is unsure if he is ready for a long-term relationship, forcing Moira to do some soul-searching of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOOBoelts, Maribeth
Summary: Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BoeWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted to be part of a large family like the O'Briens, but when her mother married into that family, Jenny still felt like an outsider. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production and to make peace with the past. And on top of that, Caleb Green, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOSmile Down Upon Us (Musical group)
Contents: Girl of a skin-coloured blanket no 2 -- Child's walk -- My body continents -- Two weeks last summer -- Qookino farm and tractor factory band -- Kotoba no yukue -- Rayla no lullaby -- Ken ken pah -- A vessel in the fragrance -- Child's walk reprise -- Tip toe through the tulips
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: digital
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMIWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Dating Matthew O'Brien, a playboy and a younger man, cost Laila Riley her career and her parents' respect. When she decided it was just a fling, she broke it off. Now Laila needs to get away from it all, but she has severe reservations about accepting the O'Briens' invitation to join them for a Dublin holiday. Matthew is bound to be there. What if she can't resist temptation?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Jesse O'Brien has overcome a lot: the challenges of attention deficit disorder, the near bankruptcy of her beloved inn at Eagle Point, and her self-perception as a failure among overachievers. Finally ready to share the future with a man, her friends persuade her to try a dating service, but she gets no takers. However, her childhood friend, psychologist Will Lincoln, has already chosen the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Keillor, Garrison.
Summary: Life These Days features 11 of Garrison Keillor's signature "News From Lake Wobegon" monologues recorded from live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817.54 KEISenff, Jack M.
Contents: Wildfire -- Another day -- Quiet love -- Honey & wine -- Real life cowboy -- These Northwood blues
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skeletal Lighting
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL SENGibbs, Stuart
Summary: With no knightly experience but plenty of pluck and an impressive vocabulary, a twelve-year-old peasant, hoping to improve his station in life, volunteers to help a cowardly prince and his not very powerful wizard rescue a princess from an evil, foul-smelling monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Barbieri, Maggie.
Summary: "Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wife, a new baby, and a look of pity for Maeve that's absolutely infuriating. Her father insists he's still independent, but he's slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer's. And now, her cousin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BARRosoff, Meg
Summary: "New York City. Summer 1983. A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted. But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin. Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture. Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSKeegan, Claire
Summary: "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Long ago, the oceans were home to all living things. Then some creatures moved ashore. But how? This program outlines the stages of natural selection that enabled water-dwelling animals and plants to survive, and then thrive, on land. Key evolutionary innovations such as exoskeletons and endoskeletons, legs and feet, cold blood and warm blood, lungs, hard-shelled eggs, fur, and live young are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Relive every thrilling moment as ABC's Once Upon A Time: The Complete Second Season; casts its tantalizing spell. The curse is broken, magic has arrived, and there's no telling what or who will be unleashed! Now the exiled fairytale characters must struggle with a overflow of memories as they come to grips with their new 'reality.' Old loyalties will be tested, new heroes will emerge and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC Studios 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ONC RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONCSummary: When a young woman returns to her hometown to help save her sister's failing inn, she must confront unpleasant memories from her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 3Alvarez, Jennifer Lynn
Summary: Jake tells his girlfriend Jessica that they have to go to Tegan's end-of-summer party in their tiny California beach town. Something happens at the party-- something so embarrassing that Jessica doesn't know if she can get over it, and Jake will do whatever it takes to earn her forgiveness. When a girl goes missing, everyone is a suspect... and Jake seems to have a lot to hide. -- adapted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALVSummary: It's a diabolical thing about curses: Just as one is broken, another, even more sinister than the first, inevitably emerges to wreak further havoc. Experience the heart-pounding action and tantalizing suspense of ABC's Once Upon A Time: the complete third season. The stakes are higher than ever following a narrow escape from the nightmare of Neverland and Peter Pan. A year after their amazing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014