Summary: "Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. Spirit possession has been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50countries for a week-long seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 PENSummary: "In his brilliant deptictions of classic children's stories, Charles Santore applies his unique, meticulous vison to people and landscapes both familiar and original. The result is always dazzling."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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Summary: "A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TARRouse, Dan
Summary: "A book, packed with inexpensive upcycling projects, that provides kids with tips on how to attract a range of birds to their outdoor space. Transform your backyard into a sanctuary for a variety of birds. Make a difference to the local wildlife with this informative, hands-on book. Bird numbers are in decline and you can help them by creating a place for them thrive. Make a bird feeder that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalmatian Press 2006
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Summary: An introduction to painting which covers the works of such famous artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. Includes Internet links.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC] 2006
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Summary: A retelling of the story of the boy fated to be the "true-born King of Britain," covering his glorious reign and his tragic, yet triumphant, passing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREPenguin Cafe Orchestra
Contents: Rosasolis -- Bean fields -- Southern jukebox music -- Horns of the bull -- Oscar tango -- The snake and the lotus (the pond) -- Dirt -- Sketch -- Perpetuum mobile -- Swing the cat -- Wildlife.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EG Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE PENSummary: In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: The songs from the original animated motion picture soundtrack about Mowgli, the man-cub raised in the jungle by a pack of wolves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AMESummary: An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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Summary: Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 KIRBaum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
Summary: After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAUCave, Roderick
Summary: Each of the 100 books chosen has played a critical role in the development of books in all their forms and with all that they bring: literacy, numeracy, technological progress and the expansion of scientific knowledge, religion, political theory, entertainment, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 CAVNicholson, Hope.
Summary: Think comic books can't feature strong female protagonists? Think again! In The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen you ll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling, entertaining, and heroic female characters who ve populated comic books from the very beginning. This spectacular sisterhood includes costumed crimebusters like Miss Fury, super-spies like Tiffany Sinn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.59 NICOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Jack and Annie go on a series of missions in order to help the wizard Merlin, traveling to such places as Japan, Antarctica, New Orleans, and Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Aspiring Professional Adventurer Mr. Penguin, his colleague, Colin the spider, and friends Edith and Gordon crash-land on a snowy mountain where they face an evil hypnotist and seek missing pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMIBorgenicht, David.
Contents: The frog prince.--Rumpelstiltskin.--The fisherman and his wife.--Hansel and Gretel.--The musicians of Bremen.--The brave little tailor.--The golden goose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fairytales 398.2 Borgenicht 1997Sunzi
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 SUNPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lassie come home: A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young master. Son of Lassie: On a bombing run over enemy-occupied Norway, a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures. Courage of Lassie: Lassie is in the Army now. Follows the canine's new adventures form his wilderness puppyhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Jean Piaget believed that children go through a universal developmental process that is clearly reflected in their drawings. Is Piaget's theory valid, and if so, to what extent does culture influence that process? In this program, Peter Willatts, of the University of Dundee; Edith Bavin, of La Trobe University; and other researchers compare and contrast the drawing schemas of Scottish children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006