Franklin, Benjamin
Contents: Letters from London, 1757-1775 -- Paris, 1776-1785: including political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters -- Philadelphia, 1785-1790: including bagatelles, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, letters -- Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758 -- The autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 FRADarnton, Robert
Summary: "When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 DARNorth Carolina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1973
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN CENSUS NORTH CAROLINA 1784-1787Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Franklin, Benjamin
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Silence Dogood, 1722 -- No. 1, April 2 5 -- No. 2, April 6 7 -- No. 3, April 30 9 -- No. 4, May 4 10 -- No. 5, May 28 14 -- No. 6, June 1 17 -- No. 7, June 25, with accompanying poem 19 -- No. 8, July 9 24 -- No. 9, July 23 26 -- No. 10, August 29 -- No. 11, August 20 33 -- No. 12, September 10 35 -- No. 13, September 24 37 -- No. 14, October 8 39 -- Hugo Grim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.1 FRAGreen, Peter
Contents: Disc 1.; Man of the world /; Fleetwood Mac --; Long grey mare /; Fleetwood Mac --; Cryin' won't bring you back --; A fool no more --; Trying to hit my head against the wall --; Last train to San Antone --; Walkin' the road --; Uranus /; Brunning Sunflower Blues Band --; Watcha gonna do? --; Born on the wild side --; Lost my love --; Fast talking woman blues /; Fleetwood Mac --; Long way from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRESwift, Jonathan
Summary: The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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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: "26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. The Best of World SF draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction - expect robots, spaceships and time travel, as well as some really weird stuff - representing twenty-one countries and five continents."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMcPhee, Peter
Summary: The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 MCPLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important--yet almost always overlooked--chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE LARWorld Book, Inc
Summary: Examines the United States presidency and its historical importance. Discusses the duties, priviledges, and the broad power of the president. It goes in-depth into the typical, daily life of a United States president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Ellis, Joseph J.
Summary: "The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ELLGraham, Winston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1979
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Morris, Richard B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 MORWood, Gordon S.
Contents: Rip Van Winkle's America -- Experiment in republicanism -- A monarchical republic -- The Federalist program -- The emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican party -- The French Revolution in America -- John Adams and the few and the many -- The crisis of 1798-1799 -- The Jeffersonian revolution of 1800 -- Republican society -- The Jeffersonian West -- Law and an independent judiciary -- Chief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 WOOGraham, Winston
Summary: Tired from a war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead. But his sympathy for the destitute farmers of the district leads him to rescue an urchin girl and take her home -- an act which alters the whole course of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2015Mitchell, Susan K.
Summary: "Examines spy agencies in the United States and around the world, including the founding of these agencies, how they work, who works for them, and looks at specific agencies, such as the CIA, MI5, KGB, and BND"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 SUGMann, Elizabeth
Summary: The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914): Patrick Couderc is cast in female drag as the Patchwork Girl brought to life by charlatan Dr. Pipt (Raymond Russell). Also stars Jessie Mae Walsh, Mildred Harris and (briefly) Harold Lloyd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WORSchreiner-Yantis, Netti
Contents: v. 1. 1-784 -- v. 2. 785-1482 -- v. 3. Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Books in Print 1987
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Anderson, Kevin J.
Summary: The conclusion to the Saga of Seven Suns series features a final stand in an epic clash against galactic civilizations that pits the factions of humanity against one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2008