Harrison, Kim
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce you to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before! Can science save us when all else fails? Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. But death comes in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBlevins, Wiley
Summary: The east Asian nation of South Korea is a land of gorgeous natural landscapes, with green forests, towering mountains, and ocean beaches. It is also a land of sprawling, modern cities. Readers will meet up with Wook-jin and Yu-na, their local guides, as they explore everything South Korea has to offer. They ll learn about the country s history, culture, typical lifestyles, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951.95 BLETonkin, Rachel
Summary: "How does a butterfly grow? Follow the journey through a butterfly's life cycle, from the time the egg is laid, through hatching as a caterpillar, to forming a cocoon and emerging as a fully grown butterfly."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 TONSirett, Dawn
Summary: Presents information about farms and farm animals and encourages young readers to move their fingers along special trails in the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SIRHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Imaginative Babymouse's science partner, Felicia the cat, expects her to do all of the work for their report on microscopic creatures, but Babymouse gets help from a pizza-loving amoeba named Squish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC BABMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "It's the most anticipated event of the decade -- Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding -- and everyone is invited! But the relative peace and tranquillity of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted. Domineering Irene is set to return for a two-month stay, consigning young Bertie to a summer camp. Not content with that, she somehow manages to come between the enigmatic nun, Sister Maria-Fiore dei...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: When Jack Morgan, head of the world's foremost investigation agency receives at invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan's skills, and his discretion. Sophie Edwards, a close friend of the Princess, has gone missing. She needs to be found before the media become aware of it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2018
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1 available in Adult- Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2018Summary: "Included are narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789), who were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SLADos Passos, John
Summary: "John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 DOSJohnson, James Weldon
Contents: The autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Along this way -- New York Age editorials -- Selected essays -- Black Manhattan -- Selected poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 JOHRoosevelt, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.911 ROOTonkin, Rachel
Summary: "How does an oak tree grow? Follow the journey through an oak tre's life cycle, from an acorn to becoming a fully grown tree."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 POUThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THOAdams, Henry
Summary: The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ADABrown, Rita Mae
Summary: "It's the start of fox-hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, a man dies, apparently by suicide, shocking a community that never saw the death coming. Then Crawford Howard receives an ominous video in which he appears to be doing scandalous, career-ending deeds. The video is doctored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BrownAdams, John
Summary: "Traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence, [...] to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the filed, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe [...]. It includes his hightly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ADAShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 1993
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TOCFussell, Paul
Summary: Looks at World War II in Europe, from D-Day to the fall of Berlin, from the perspective of the American infantry soldiers who fought, capturing the horrors and hardships of battle while dealing with issues of leadership, strategy, and tactics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 FUSGrippando, James
Summary: When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. Contending with rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICastillo, Linda
Summary: "Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister. The town's elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CASRollins, James
Summary: Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak'until a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019