Summary: HMS Pinafore: Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor, is smitten with the captain's daughter, Josephine, a woman far above his social rank. When Josephine declares her love for Ralph, the couple decide to elope. Their plans are thwarted, but the lovers are reunited when Ralph's true social position is revealed. Trial by jury: Jurors and reporters gather in a courtroom for a much-publicized case...
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Summary: Overview: First Published in 1885 by the Minnesota Historical Society, William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway People has long been recognized as a classic source on Ojibwe history and culture. Warren, the son of an Ojibwe woman, wrote his history in the hope of saving traditional stories for posterity even as he presented to the American public a sympathetic view of a people he believed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2009
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Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013
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Contents: A mask for Janus (1952) -- The dancing bears (1954) -- Green with beasts (1956) -- The drunk in the furnace (1960) -- The moving target (1963) -- The lice (1967) -- The carrier of ladders (1970) -- Writings to an unfinished accompaniment (1973) -- The compass flower (1977) -- Opening the hand (1983) -- The rain in the trees (1988) -- Travels (1993) -- The vixen (1996) -- The river sound (1999)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERAnderson, W. S., (William Stacy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1913
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1988
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Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013
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Summary: "The First Four Books of Poems gathers all the poetry from W. S. Merwin's early books, including his celebrated debut, A Mask for Janus, which won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952. In these poems, readers can witness the maturation of a commanding poetic voice, one which has profoundly marked American literature in the latter half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996
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Summary: Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke Jensen is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But no bars of iron or bonds of rope can withstand a vengeful Mountain Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishign Corp 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.W. Ensign & Co. 1881
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publ 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publ 2002
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Summary: When gold is discovered in the little town of No-Name, Colorado, its initially joyful citizens are besieged by an onslaught of fortune-hunting gunslingers, and Smoke Jensen recruits a handful of legends to help protect the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 1994
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Summary: Searching through the Oklahoma Panhandle for the killers who ambushed a small wagon train, notorious gunslinger Falcon MacCallister discovers that a new railway is at the root of all the bloodshed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publ 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: KENNSINGTON PUB. 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1931
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Silber, William L.
Summary: "A quarterback like Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers gambles with a Hail Mary pass at the end of a football game when he has nothing to lose - the risky throw might turn defeat into victory, or end in a meaningless interception. Rodgers may not realize it, but he has much in common with figures such as George Washington, Rosa Parks, Woodrow Wilson, and Adolph Hitler, all of whom changed the modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.12 SILJohnstone, Willlaim W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle 1994