Kurzweil, Allen.
Summary: Leon, a fourth grader at The Classical School, tries to outwit the school bully and learn to sew for fanatical teacher Miss Hagmeyer, with unexpected help from his final project-- a doll with magical powers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KurzweilBrecht, Bertolt
Summary: Play concerning the latter period of the life of Galileo Galilei. Unrelenting in his search for "simple truth", Galileo shatters beliefs held sacred for two thousand years. Under threat of torture by the Holy Inquisition, he argues for his very life in a passionate debate over science, politics, religion and ethics that resonates to this day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L. A. Theatre Works 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 832.912 BRELott, Bret.
Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTHarte, Bret
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1903
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLott, Bret.
Summary: A 15-year-old teenager divides his time between caring for his blind uncle and spending weekends at the Hunt Club, but when a body is found at the club, he must struggle to stay alive and protect his beliefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLott, Bret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTBaier, Bret
Summary: January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EISENHOWERLott, Bret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTBaier, Bret
Summary: On May 31, 1988, Reagan addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, with a remarkable -- yet now largely forgotten -- speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 BAILott, Bret.
Summary: While most of the residents in the wealthy, historic Charleston enclave of Landgrave Hall are asleep at two-thirty in the morning, Huger Dillard and his father, "Unc," are heading, via jonboat, to the adjoining golf course. Blinded by a terrible accident that killed his wife, Unc prefers to practice his golf game when no one is watching. But before anyone can even tee off, Huger makes a grisly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTStetka, Bret
Summary: Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was on the edge of extinction when a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides and eating the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. What saved us during that period of endangerment? The human brain, and its evolutionary journey is unlike anything else in history. In Brain Power,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 STEFernow, Berthold
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 FernoWolf, Bree (Bree D.)
Summary: In a world populated with monsters, ghouls, witches, magical chickens, ghosts, and regular folks, a wannabe racer and a ghost team up to win the local Grand Prix, with a blossoming romance along the way.--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WOLBaier, Bret
Summary: "Becca, Zack, Cam, and Thomas are best friends who may seem like an unlikely group on the surface but who have something very important in common: a love of history! Together, they make up their school's history club that has an all-important secret mission: stop the villainous History Twister's plot to destroy the past, forever altering the future. Knowledge of history is their superpower as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BAIBaier, Bret
Summary: November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,'...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BAIBaier, Bret
Summary: George Washington rescued the nation three times: first by leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, second by presiding over the Constitutional Convention that set the blueprint for the United States and ushering the Constitution through a fractious ratification process, and third by leading the nation as its first president. After the War of Independence, the states...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 BAIBaier, Bret
Summary: "From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. BAIHarte, Bret.
Summary: If you can't get enough of action-adventure stories of pioneer life in the American West, dive into this tale from Bret Harte, one of the most renowned documenters of the era. In A Waif of the Plains, Harte recounts the story of an orphan traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1850s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Floating Press 2006
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTBennett, Brit.
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENBerthoud, Ella.
Summary: A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful--a way to learn about how to live. Read at the right moment in your life, a novel can--quite literally--change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 BERBrel, Jacques.
Contents: Amsterdam (3:20) -- Les bergers (2:44) -- Au suivant (3:05) -- Rosa (2:40) -- Les paumes du petit matin (4:16) -- Ces gens-la (4:38) -- Les bigotes (2:41) -- La fanette (4:04) -- Vesoul (3:06) -- Les biches (4:21) -- Ne me quitte pas (3:49) -- Quand on n'a que l'amour (3:11) -- La valse a mille temps (4:41) -- Madeleine (2:39) -- Les bourgeois (2:52) -- Le moribond (3:19) -- Les flamandes...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BrelMoore, Brew.
Contents: Them there eyes / Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Tauber (4:55) -- Them old blues / John Marabuto (4:05) -- Tea for two / Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar (5:00) -- Rose / John Marabuto (4:40) -- I can't believe that you're in love with me / Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill (4:19) -- Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread) / Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom (4:22) -- Rotation / Dickie Mills (4:23)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MOOBassinger, Brec
Summary: Follows the adventures of high school student Courtney Whitmore who discovers the Cosmic Staff and inspires a new generation of superheroes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022