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Fun with Spot Heidi Heckelbeck 32 King & Kayla 8 Nevermoor 3 Nocturnes 2 Splat the CatOrlean, Susan
Summary: Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 027 ORLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 027 ORLOrlean, Susan
Summary: "Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2018
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027 ORLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027 ORLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027 ORLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 027 ORLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 027.4794 ORLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word OrleanChapin, Tom
Summary: Using the lyrics to Tom Chapin and Michael Mark's "The Library Song," this picture book celebrates the magic of reading and of libraries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CHAOrlean, Susan
Summary: "On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, patrons and staff outside of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous, reaching 2000 degrees and burning for more than seven hours. It consumed four hundred...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 027 ORLAldrich, Margret
Summary: "In 2009, Todd Bol built the first Little Free Library as a memorial to his mom. Five years later, this simple idea to promote literacy and encourage community has become a movement. Little Free Libraries-freestanding front-yard book exchanges-now numbertwenty thousand in seventy countries. The Little Free Library Book tells the history of these charming libraries, gathers quirky and poignant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020 ALDCoven, Wanda
Summary: Heidi has an overdue adventure when she loses a library book in this thirty-second Heidi Heckelbeck adventure! The Brewster Library has always been a magical place for kids in town. It has a story waiting for everyone. But imagine Heidi's surprise when Aunt Trudy lets her in on a well-kept secret: the Brewster Library has a real magic section! When Heidi checks out a title for a special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COVMeister, Cari
Summary: Splat becomes a fugitive from the library when he realizes he has an overdue library book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Festival 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MEIButler, Dori Hillestad
Summary: Kayla needs to return her library books, but she can't find one of them. Can King and Jillian help solve the crime?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BUTSummary: Improved phone directory printing process - great shots of printing process
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Summary: Provides profiles of philanthropic programs in the United States --programs associated with private foundations, corporate foundations, and corporate direct givers. All of the funders in this directory have either made grants to libraries within the last few reporting periods or have listed libraries as a typical recipient category.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bus Library ALAHill, Eric
Summary: Spot dresses up as his favorite character at a costume party at the library.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick Warne 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nazi propaganda piece: Book-burning by Nazi -sympathizing students, then political prisoners at Oranienburg, one of the first concentration camps. Biased, doesn't show horrors, in fact it probably whitewashes it.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Casale, Karen.
Summary: The Library Secret Service explains the rules for the care of library books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: UpstartBooks 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CASHayes-McCoy, Felicity
Summary: "As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 118 FIC HAYSummary: "Reading the Stars is where your favorite books, authors, and characters meet astrology, answering key questions: What should you read based on the cosmos? Do you and your favorite fictional characters share the same sign? What about authors? And what does that mean for you? Open up a whole new world of astrology with this literary exploration!"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.58 REAManning, Matthew K.
Summary: "A haunted school library. A suspicious group of adults. And a gang of kids and their dog ready to solve any mystery. When Shaggy and his pup Scooby-Doo sneak into Crystal Cove Elementary School's library after hours, they discover the reason it has been closed - there is a ghost living in it! At least, that's what the librarian, Miss James, believes. Now the Mystery Inc. Gang must try to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Connolly, John
Summary: A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly, bestselling author of thirteen acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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Summary: A group of animals search for the perfect book at the library.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: UpstartBooks 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MilCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MILKells, Stuart
Summary: From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of Middle Earth and other fictional libraries, Kells explores the bookish places that capture our imaginations. The result is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder, a celebration of books as objects and an account of the deeply personal nature of these hallowed spaces.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business Lib KellsTaleb, Nassim.
Summary: Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 003.54 TalebMurray, Stuart A. P.
Summary: Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished--while the treasures they housed evolved from early stone tablets, to beautifully illumined vellum, and to the mass-produced, bound paper books and the digital formats of our present day. This book opens doors to the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.009 MURTownsend, Jessica
Summary: "Morrigan Crow must uncover the mystery behind a new disease spreading through Nevermoor"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From Rachel's crush on her new, younger assistant to her pregnancy; from Monica's wedding plans to her wedding ceremony; from Phoebe's secret cookies recipe to her secret kiss with Rachel; from Joey's laugh finding Rachel's dirty book to his movie collaboration with Oldman; from Chandler's strained smile in pictures to his runaway marriage plan; from Ross's nap with Joey to his crush on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004