Johnston, Lynn Franks

Summary: In her touchingly funny daily strip, Lynn Johnston gives her fans realistic characters who humorously deal with both the good and bad that life gives them. Every day, Johnston demonstrates--through hormonal children and parents who aren't always right--that life goes on For Better or For Worse. In Middle Age Spread, parents John and Elly have started to notice their own aging process: the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1998

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Johnston, Lynn Franks

Summary: In this collection, Elly, who is juggling a new job, the adolescent traumas of Michael and now Elizabeth, plus the usual housework woes, finds out she is pregnant!! The shock finally wears off and the family deals with the idea of another person in their household. Then one stormy night baby April is born at home, and the Pattersons forget their worries and focus on the beautiful new baby girl,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1991

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Johnston, Lynn Franks

Summary: This collection includes the cartoon's trademarks--the foibles of teenagers, terrors of tots, and trials of marriage--and also features hilarious comic daring to more series issues, such as a friend's revelation that he is gay.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1993

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Contents: v. 1. Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker -- v. 2. E.E. Cummings to May Swenson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811. 508 American 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.508 AMER

Meister, Cari

Summary: "Introduces the differences between "there," "their," and "they're" through the telling of an original story"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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Parkman, Francis

Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old regime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.01 PAR

Dana, Richard Henry

Contents: Two years before the mast -- To Cuba and back: a vacation voyage -- Journal of a voyage round the world 1859-1860.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 DAN

Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)

Contents: The road back to Paris -- Mollie and other war pieces -- Uncollected war journalism -- Normandy revisited.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 LIE

Smith, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.502 SMI

Summary: "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 SLA

Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)

Contents: The sweet science -- The Earl of Louisiana -- The jollity building -- Between meals -- The press.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.52 LIE

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: SC Longfellow 2000

Ward, Lynd

Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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Audubon, John James

Contents: Mississippi River journal -- From 1826 journal -- From Ornithological biography -- Delineations of American scenery and manners -- Missouri River journals -- Other writings -- Letters.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.092 AUD

Summary: "Provides a comprehensive history of the 175 African Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Written for a general audience, this book contains a profile of each African-American Member, including notables such as Hiram R. Revels, Joseph H. Rainey, Oscar De Priest, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins, and Barbara Jordan. Individual profiles are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Government Publishing Office 2023

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Criscione, Rachel Damon.

Summary: Explains what a palomino horse is, its importance in history, and the requirements that it must meet before being registered with the Palomino Horse Breeders of America.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.1 CRI

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: "James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Patterson, James

Summary: The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson

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Washington, George

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.41 WAS

Williams, Tennessee

Contents: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WIL

Williams, Tennessee

Summary: Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides information on his life and writing career.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000

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Sherman, William T 1820-1891

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHE