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Action and adventure television programs Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Diaries Fiction Diaries Juvenile fiction Fiction Authorship Fiction television programs Hearst, William Randolph 1863-1951 Publishers and publishing Publishers and publishing Fiction United StatesSummary: Lists publishers, magazines, and other markets that publish fictional works, and offers articles on how to develop one's writing skills and improve the odds of getting published.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 NOVElliott, Rebecca
Summary: Bo Tinseltail and friends welcome a jackalope family to Sparklegrove Forest, and when they learn the family is being chased by centaurs everyone bands together to help the jackalopes live in peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR BLUE ELLSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILHarbach, Chad (EDT)
Summary: "Chad Harbach and contributors map out the "two cultures" of American fiction: MFA programs and NYC publishing. In a widely read essay titled "MFA vs. NYC," bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MFAMcKain, Kelly
Summary: Lauren loves learning dressage to music at Pony Camp -- it's just like dancing with her pony! But can she come up with a special routine for the display on Friday?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2020
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Summary: Saddle up for a week of exciting riding adventures at Sunnyside Stables where Jessica spends a week with her pony, Jewel! Jessica can't wait to go on the trail ride and camp out with her new Pony Camp friends. If only her little sister wasn't so nervous about making new friends - she wants to spend all her time with Jessica!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2020
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Summary: Five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency where newcomer Jane Addison quickly discovers there are damaging secrets hidden behind its doors. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEScroggs, Kirk
Summary: The everyday life of middle schooler Russell is depicted in his spiral notebook full of doodles and journal entries detailing what it's like being different and how to be comfortable in his own skin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SCRHarris, Zakiya Dalila
Summary: "Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARErnaux, Annie
Summary: "Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERNPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEAPearl, Matthew.
Summary: As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEARehak, Melanie.
Summary: "Nancy [Drew] was brought to life by two remarkable women: ... Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, and author Mildred Wirt Benson, a convention-flouting journalist."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GuilloryEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSRehak, Melanie.
Summary: In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 REHKephart, Beth
Summary: "A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NORSummary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Introduces the reader to what a cavity is, how to prevent them, and what happens when you get one"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 617.6 HERMoreira, Naila
Summary: "Sammie, a budding naturalist, knows of a secret and wonderful place: Winghaven, an abandoned lot in the middle of the suburbs where wildlife flourishes. She spends hours making notes and drawings in her meticulous field journal. When Bram, a new boy, turns up with his camera, Sammie worries he'll give away her hidden haven--after all, the other boys at school bully her. But Bram is a scientist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: "A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TARMcKissack, Pat
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1900
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y DA 18Summary: In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001