Uhlberg, Myron.
Summary: By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B Uhlberg UhlMixon, Myron.
Summary: "The secret to the best barbecue from the man who barbecues the best: Keep it simple! In the world of competitive barbecue, nobody's won more prize money, more trophies, or more adulation than Myron Mixon. And he comes by it honestly: From the time he was old enough to stoke a pit, Mixon learned the art of barbecue at his father's side. He grew up to expand his parent's sauce business, Jack's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 MIXSummary: With hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever. Discovering that Scooby has a secret legacy and epic destiny, Shaggy remembers how he met the puppy and how Mystery, Inc. was formed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SCOMyron, Vicki
Summary: "In the tradition of Marley: A Dog Like No Other, this is the story of a cat who was more than a pet, and the amazing effect he had on the people around him. This middle-grade adaptation of the Grand Central bestseller Dewey features an 8-page photo insert, including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew! Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.8 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.8 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYRAhlberg, Allan.
Summary: Presents a day in the life of a loaf of bread that is baked early in the morning and enjoyed slice by slice by the baker and his wife as well as their son, a dog, ducks, fish, birds, and finally a tiny mouse that nibbles up the last crumbs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AHLSummary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESSummary: Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best, running contraband, to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian, to head to Panama and return with millions in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED RSummary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PGWahlberg, Mark
Summary: When former police office Billy Taggart becomes a private detective and is hired to investigate the mayor's wife, he soon finds himself in over his head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED RMyrer, Anton.
Summary: Once an Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances his career by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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James, Marlon
Summary: "Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMMaroon 5
Contents: This Love (Acoustic) (4:15) -- Sunday Morning (Acoustic) (4:15) -- She Will Be Loved (Acoustic) (4:37) -- Harder To Breathe (Acoustic) (3:10) -- The Sun (Acoustic) (5:19) -- If I Fell (Acoustic) (3:23) -- Highway To Hell (Acoustic - Live From Hamburg, Germany) (4:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A&M / Octone Records 2007
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James, Marlon
Summary: "From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMBarton, Byron
Summary: Sam describes in loving detail his car and how he drives it
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BARMaren, Mesha
Summary: "Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARBarton, Byron
Summary: "A bus driver named Joe heads out on his route, stopping at one bus stop after another to pick up passengers. He picks up five dogs and five cats in all, dropping nine of them off at the plane, train, or boat. The tenth passenger, a dog, Joe takes home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BARLane, Byron
Summary: "A hilariously heartfelt novel about living life at full force, and discovering family when you least expect it, influenced in part by the author's time as Carrie Fisher's beloved assistant. Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANSummary: The Negro Ensemble Company was founded in 1967 by actor/playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald Krone, with the stated goal of creating "a Theater of Excellence concentrating primarily on themes of black life. By producing consistently imaginative and challenging plays, the NEC has nurtured some of the finest theatrical talent in America and has created an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Heron, Farah
Summary: "Reena Manji doesn't love her career, her single status, and most of all, her family inserting themselves into every detail of her life. But when caring for her precious sourdough starters, Reena can drown it all out. At least until her father moves his newest employee across the hall--with hopes that Reena will marry him. But Nadim's not like the other Muslim bachelor-du-jours that her parents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2021
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Summary: With the help of his "manager," a thirteen-year-old boy sells a movie idea to a major Hollywood studio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARMoran, Michelle.
Summary: Transport to the colorful and dangerous court of imperial Rome and into the remarkable lives of two young captives--the children of Cleopatra, Egypt's most powerful and notorious ruler, and her lover Marc Antony. Taken in chains to Rome as ten-year-olds, twins Selene and Alexander cling to each other, and to the hope of one day returning to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC MORGeron, Eric
Summary: "Next set in the Learn About series about animal groups"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023