Amidon, Ervan L. (Ervan Lloyd)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anundsen Pub. Co. 2007
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PABST AmidonDematteo, Mario
Summary: "The incredible true story of Corrie ten Boom, and her faith in the face of evil, is now a visually stunning graphic novel for ages 8-12. Through more than 900 engaging, full-color panels, this real-life heroine comes to life-showing a new generation how even in the most desperate, loneliest, and darkest times, faith, hope, and love will ultimately triumph"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chosen Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 921 TENHerman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina
Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HERGouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUSummary: 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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Leyh, Kat
Summary: When Snap rescues a family of baby opossums, she asks the town witch, Jacks, for help caring for them, but as Snap starts to get to know Jacks, she realizes that Jacks may have a connection with Snap's family past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LEYHaas, Eve
Summary: Eve Haas was just eight years old when, as a Jewish girl in a Berlin school, the Nazis' rise to power began to threaten everything and everyone she knew. Fortunately, her parents managed to get her family out of Germany and to London to start a new life. Then Eve inherited a treasured family notebook that hid an amazing secret. Warned against pursuing the truth behind the notebook, Eve set out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 HAAWard, Logan.
Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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Summary: Chronicles the sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa--one of the most renowned women rulers in history--and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOLConroy, Pat
Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SATMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAICarbone, Courtney
Summary: An activity book based on the Super Mario video games includes puzzles, mazes, word scrambles, and hidden codes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: "Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE EMLSwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWAWard, Logan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WARSalatin, Joel
Summary: The author adapts the procedures of his successful Virginia farm to the scale of small land owners and city dwellers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polyface, Inc. 2021
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Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISFaust, Drew Gilpin
Summary: "Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAUST, DREW GILPIN FAUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FaustLow, Ann Marie
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.4 LOW ANN MARIE, LOWHoffman, Mary
Summary: Features illustrations and descriptions of different types of families and how their lives are similar and different.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011