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Start, Daniel

Summary: "This compendium of adventures features the best wild places to visit in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset, with luscious places to eat and stay and ideas for weekend itineraries. The best secret beaches and wild swimming locations Amazing ancient woodlands and wildlife spectacles Top picnic places and wild flower meadows Lost ruins, hidden castles and sacred stones Caverns, caves, grottoes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wild Things 2013

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Armstrong, Jess

Summary: "After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and housemate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it seems to have a way of finding her. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is brought back to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ARM

Summary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC INL

Canby, Henry Seidel

Summary: In 1683, at about the age of 15, Thomas Camby left Thorne in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England for America eventually settling in Abington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Jarvis and had nine children. When Sarah died he married Mary Oliver and had eight more children. Upon Mary's death, Thomas married Jane Preston. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside Press 1945

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF GEN 929.2 CANBY Canby

Matsumoto, Naoya

Summary: "With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021

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Matsumoto, Naoya

Summary: "With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How...

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022

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Summary: Join the cast and crew of Poldark, as well as the award-winning creative team behind the series, on this exclusive journey to discover the true stories behind the history, the books, and the characters of Winston Graham's saga. Poldark Revealed uncovers the passion behind the people bringing Graham's novels to life with their unforgettable characters, gripping story, fiery passions, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996

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Winn, Raynor

Summary: "The incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINN, RAYNOR WIN

Byrd, Sarah.

Summary: Suzanne Morgan has lost herself. Peter Stewart has lost his way. Though from different worlds, grief has exposed their weaknesses and left them both searching for truth that heals.Suzanne and her ten-year-old daughter, Blair, take a three-month trip to the southern coast of England to recover from the year's events. As they settle into village life, they make unexpected friends who will change...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: West Bow Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYR

Hutchinson, Robert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROMWELL, THOMAS HUT

Kuipers, Dean

Summary: "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUIPERS, DEAN KUI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KUIPERS KUI

Hockney, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1995

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.674 HOC

Taylor, Barbara

Summary: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London. The Last Asylum is Taylor’s...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 TAY

Barr, John

Summary: "From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 BAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 BAR

Collins, Terry (Terry Lee)

Summary: "The popular Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang teach kids all about sea monsters"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone Imprint 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.9 COL

Respicio, Mae

Summary: "Walking in the woods, you think you spy a hairy face and beady eyes looking at you from the thick trees. Was it a beast of legend? Reports of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and other cryptids come from all over the world. Could they be true? Researchers use thermal video cameras, night-vision goggles, drones, and other tools to investigate. Get an inside look at all the high-tech gear used to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.944 RES

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.

Summary: Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.7 KAL

Cowles, Walter C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cowles 1997

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 386 COW

Summary: In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), before moving on to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Minneapolis Museum of Art (MIA). This book will be the perfect accompaniment to the exhibition, which focuses on del Toro’s creative process, including the well-defined themes that he obsessively...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GUI

Summary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOW

Harper, Benjamin

Summary: "Think you know all about the kraken? Think again! This tentacled cryptid has a secret life that may surprise you. Where do krakens call home? Do the big underwater beasts really use barf as bait? Uncover these exciting facts and more through . . . photos and easy-to-read text that supports struggling readers and engages monster fans alike"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.944 HAR

Gallagher, Eddie

Summary: On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher--a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq--was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballast Books, LLC 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, EDDIE GAL

Shadmi, Koren

Summary: "Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUGOSI, BELA SHA

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