Twain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWASummary: Hadleyburg has a reputation for unshakable honesty. The smug townspeople are proud of this virtue and keep themselves honest by simply avoiding temptation. That is until “the man that corrupted Hadleyburg” arrives in town. Robert Preston stars as the stranger who plots a revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to the citizens who once showed him charity many years before....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Twain, Mark
Contents: Introduction -- Curing a cold -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- A touching story of George Washington's boyhood -- Advice for good little girls -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Answers to correspondents -- Concerning chambermaids -- An inquiry about insurances -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A fine old man -- A visit to Niagara -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prion Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWASummary: America’s magnificent storyteller Mark Twain has crafted an intriguing and classic tale of mistaken identity, deceit, and murder. At the center of it all is a slave woman who cradle-switches her master’s son with her own light-skinned baby…a child, though raised as white, who never fulfills her hopes and dreams for him as he becomes an arrogant and cruel man. Acclaimed actor Ken Howard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1983
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Twain, Mark
Summary: Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook--an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race--contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2012
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Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWILystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWATwain, Mark
Summary: Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818..4 TWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 1Batterson, Mark.
Contents: The legend of the circle maker -- Circle makers -- The Jericho miracle -- Praying through -- Cloudy with a chance of quail -- You can't never always sometimes tell -- The solution to ten thousand problems -- Persistence quotient -- The favor of Him who dwells in the burning bush -- The cattle on a thousand hills -- No answer -- Long and boring -- The greatest of them all -- The speed of prayer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 248.3 BATPhillips, Mark J.
Summary: "In every decade of the twentieth century, one sensational murder trial riveted public attention and at the time was called "the trial of the century." This book tells the story of each murder case and the dramatic trial that followed. Starting with the murder of famed architect Stanford White in 1906 and ending with the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994, the authors recount ten compelling tales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PHIRibowsky, Mark.
Summary: "A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 RIBBowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
Summary: The IceCube Observatory has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 522 BOWSummary: Seems like a simple enough storyline, considering it became one of the most significant, beloved, acclaimed, and studied novels ever written. This classic motion picture is the definitive adaptation of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - splendidly filmed, lovingly produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, with an acclaimed all-star cast, and presented in an unedited, full-length version....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985
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O'Connor, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OCOZwonitzer, Mark
Summary: "John Hay, famous as Lincoln's private secretary and later as secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for being 'Mark Twain,' grew up fifty miles apart, on the banks of the Mississippi River, in thesame rural antebellum stew of race and class and want. This shared history helped draw them together when they first met as up-and-coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ZWOTwain, Mark
Summary: This exuberantly eclectic collection of Twain's writings includes parody, criticism, and commentary, all published after his death in 1910.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TWAPiesing, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIESummary: Takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners, and their communities, in a journey that will challenge the way you think, feel and shop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brave New Films, Retail Project L.L.C. 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALKurlansky, Mark
Summary: "A magnificent species whose survival is inextricably tied to the survival of the planet In what he calls "the most important environmental writing" in his long and award-winning career, best-selling author and journalist Mark Kurlansky recounts the sobering history of salmon and their perilous future. Kurlansky employs his signature multicentury storytelling and compelling attention to detail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal Wild KurlanskyJohnson, Mark
Summary: Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Velo Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 JOHKnopfler, Mark.
Summary: The third solo album from Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is a rootsy Americana-leaning epic about the working man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KNOMurphy, Mark
Contents: Hip parade. Firefly ; Lonesome town ; Kansas City ; Come to me ; Catch a falling star ; All the way ; (You've got) Personality ; Witchcraft ; Venus ; It's not for me to say ; Send for me ; I only have eyes for you -- Playing the field. Put the blame on Mame ; Swinging on a star ; My gal's come back ; Playing the field ; Heart and soul ; Love is a many-splendored thing ; Honeysuckle rose ; Isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DRG Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MURTier, Mark
Summary: Everyone knows the basic golden rule of investing: "Buy Low, Sell High," but how many of us ever really understand the stock market, how to recognize the "next big thing," and how to capitalize off of it once you do? ...the truth is not many or we'd all be millionaires. It seems like early investors in big companies like Facebook and Google had to have won the lottery of investing and just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 TIEO'Connor, Mark.
Contents: Song of the Liberty Bell / Mark O'Connor -- Johnny has gone for a soldier / traditional ; James Taylor & Mark O'Connor, arr. (with James Taylor) -- Surrender the sword / Mark O'Connor -- Soldier's joy / traditional ; Mark O'Connor, arr. -- When bidden to the wake or fair / William Shield ; Mark O'Connor, arr. (with Yo-Yo Ma) -- The world turned upside down / traditional ; Mark O'Connor, arr. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2013