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English literature Bio-bibliography Encyclopedias English literature Encyclopedias English-speaking countries In literature Encyclopedias English-speaking countries Intellectual life Encyclopedias Fairy tales Folklore Folklore Germany Giants Juvenile fiction Plot-your-own stories Tae kwon doSummary: "Researchers from scholars to the general public will find this reference source an excellent starting place to find definitions, summaries, authors, artists, and regional and historical overviews of fairy tales, past and present."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.21 OXFSummary: The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients--milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes--into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, and equally complex and varied tastes, textures, and, yes, aromas....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 637 OXFAbrahams, Roger D.
Contents: Tales of wonder from the great ocean of story -- Stories to discuss and even argue about -- Tales of trickster and other ridiculous creatures: tales to entertain -- Tales in praise of great doings -- Making a way through life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2096 ABRGunderson, Jessica
Summary: This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--White Snow is a secret agent in Good Prince's army, looking for a computer with secret codes for a bomb; Mrs. White desperately searches for her runaway daughter Snow; and Charming, towed by his seven loyal sleddogs, goes to rescue his friend and mentor Meteorologist Snow-White, who is trapped in a raging blizzard in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUNGunderson, Jessica
Summary: A choose-your-own-adventure in which the reader can proceed as Princess Rose locked in a medieval tower, as accident-prone party-girl Mollie Maleficent, or as Aurora, attempting to save martian Prince Phillip from Maleficent's alien minions. Includes a history of Sleeping Beauty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUNSummary: "Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 938.003 OXFGrimm, Jacob
Summary: "When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their 'Children's and Household Tales' in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as 'Rapunzel, ' 'Hansel and Gretel, ' and 'Cinderella' would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Who is not interested in how the body works: how it grows, develops, and ages; how it goes wrong; how it has inspired artists and been the focus of ceremony and ritual? The extraordinary human body has been one of the great subjects of fascination and enquiry over the centuries. The Oxford Companion to the Body presents many of the results of this curiosity from a wide variety of viewpoints,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001
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Summary: The idea of companion planting has arisen in the gardening community in recent years as an extremely viable new take on how plants should situated, grown, and cultivated. Matching certain plants together and separating others, as outlined in studies such as the National Sustainable Agriculture Society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Pub. Group 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 635.048 MAYSummary: A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are deeply inscribed in current popular culture⁰́₄the beast redeemed by beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the frog prince released from enchantment by a young princess. But like the adventures of many fairy-tale heroes, a curious reader's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 FEAHart, James David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Lit HartSummary: "This Companion is devoted to gardens of every kind and the people and ideas involved in their making. It combines a survey of the world's gardens with articles on a range of topics, such as garden visiting, horticulture, scientific issues, and the social history of gardens, as well as biographies of garden designers, nurserymen, and others. Over half the entries are devoted to individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 712.03 OXFLeeming, David Adams
Summary: Annotation Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology, or myth-logic, in history anddetermines that the dreams of specific cultures add up to a larger collective story of humanity....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A guide to everything Dickens collects the latest scholarship on the author and offers an overview of all his works, characters, illustrators, printers, and associates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 SCHAdamson, Thomas K.
Summary: Presents information on tae kwon do, including basic skills, training, competitions, and safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone/Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.815 ADABaines, Anthony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.19 BAIGunderson, Jessica
Summary: Retells the classic German version of Snow White, together with three similar tales--Marigo of the Forty Dragons from Albania, The unnatural mother and the girl with a star on her forehead from Mozambique, and The magic needle from Turkey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Pr Inc 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GUNHoena, B. A.
Summary: In this adventure a giant has to figure out what to do with an annoying human boy named Jack who climbed up a beanstalk: send him back, put him to work, or eat him--and the choice is up to the reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016