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Summary: Get to know the incredible iPad in a uniquely different Dummies format! The iPad combines the best of your favorite gadgets into one amazing ultraportable touch device. And, thisone-of-a-kind For Dummies guide is your is your ticket for making the most out of your iPad or iPad 2. Thoroughly updated for the third-generation iPad, the new edition of this informative, full-color guide is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012
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Gallen, Michelle
Summary: "Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALGallen, Michelle
Summary: Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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Summary: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Krugman, Paul.
Summary: A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Paul Krugman The Great Recession is more than four years old--and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge--all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all--remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Guzman, Lila
Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the painter who used his murals to teach about Mexico's history and heroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB RIVERA GUZVan Halen
Contents: Eruption (1:43) -- Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (3:47) -- Runnin' With The Devil (3:36) -- Dance The Night Away (3:10) -- And The Cradle Will Rock... (3:33) -- Unchained (3:30) -- Jump (4:04) -- Panama (3:33) -- Why Can't This Be Love (3:31) -- Dreams (4:52) -- When It's Love (5:39) -- Poundcake (5:22) -- Right Now (5:22) -- Can't Stop Lovin' You (4:07) -- Humans Being (5:08) -- Can't Get This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1978
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Bauman, Amy.
Summary: Text and photographs introduce these gentle brownish gray mammals that live in the water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.55 BAUAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALAKruzan, Sara
Summary: "At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KRUZAN KRUCapote, Truman.
Summary: Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Capote, Truman.
Summary: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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Van Halen (Musical group)
Contents: Where Have All The Good Times Gone! (2015 Remastered) (3:04) -- Hang 'em High (2015 Remastered) (3:28) -- Cathedral (2015 Remastered) (1:23) -- Secrets (2015 Remastered) (3:25) -- Intruder (2015 Remastered) (1:39) -- (Oh) Pretty Woman (2015 Remastered) (2:52) -- Dancing In The Street (2015 Remastered) (3:45) -- Little Guitars (Intro) (2015 Remastered) (0:42) -- Little Guitars (2015 Remastered)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Warner Bros. 1982
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Gabel, Aja
Summary: Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness String Quartet. In The Ensemble, each character picks up the melody, from the group’s youthful rocky start through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABCOLEN, KIMBERLY
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: TC J371.3 COLMetcalfe, Gayden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 395.2 METShuman, Carol.
Summary: When Jenny and her brother are frightened by events in the world, their parents help them talk about their fears and feel better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket SHUGalchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALGelman, Laurie
Summary: Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom-or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max, this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA President sees her as the "wisest" candidate for the job (or oldest), not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GELGroban, Josh.
Contents: The Wandering Kind (Prelude) (2:37) -- Bells Of New York City (3:49) -- Galileo (Someone Like You) (3:21) -- L'Ora Dell'Addio (3:26) -- Hidden Away (3:54) -- Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi (3:30) -- Higher Window (4:36) -- If I Walk Away (3:52) -- Love Only Knows (4:40) -- Voc ̊Existe Em Mim (5:05) -- War At Home (4:44) -- London Hymn (1:56) -- Straight To You (4:10).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 143/Reprise 2010
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Orman, Suze
Summary: "THE PATH TO YOUR ULTIMATE RETIREMENT STARTS RIGHT HERE When you think about planning for retirement-whether it's years in the future or just around the corner-you're bound to have questions. Can I ever afford to stop working? Will Social Security be there for me when I need it? Is the market a safe place for my money? How can I make my money last? Have I waited too long to start saving? Suze...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 ORMCapote, Truman
Summary: Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their murderers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1 CAPGroban, Josh.
Contents: Brave (3:59) -- False Alarms (4:33) -- Falling Slowly (4:20) -- She Moved Through The Fair (4:55) -- Below The Line (3:28) -- E Ti Promettero (feat. Laura Pausini) (3:56) -- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (3:45) -- Un Alma Mas (feat. Arturo Sandoval) (4:10) -- Happy In My Heartache (3:08) -- Hollow Talk (5:34) -- Sincera (3:35) -- I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) (5:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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Galligan, Gale
Summary: "While preparing for the last major dance competition before they graduate from eighth grade and go to separate high schools in NYC, Cory must balance the expectations of his parents, school, crew and his new friend as pressure mounts from all sides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022