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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Large Print 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEESchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: Proprietors of Sylvester Manor Since 1651 -- The Discovery -- Living with the Indians -- Amsterdam -- The Other Island : Barbados -- Nathaniel's Middle Passage -- Before the Whirlwind -- The World Turns Upside Down -- Time of Longing -- Where They Lived -- How They Lived -- In the Ground -- "Oppression upon the Mind" -- Quaker Martyrs, Quaker Peace -- "A Duchman in his Hartt" -- "Children of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.721 GRISummary: George and Kathy Lutz are newlyweds who move into a large house that is located on Long Island. The couple move in with their three children into what they believe is their dream home. Despite full disclosure by the real estate agent of the home's history, George and Kathy buy the house. The couple turn to their family priest Father Delaney who comes to bless the house. The Father believes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PrestNorth, Darian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESBlume, Judy.
Summary: Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1971
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLUGino, Alex
Summary: Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GINSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREUpcher, Caroline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPCSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SchSummary: Raising kids can be tough. It's even harder when they're really raising you! 30-something couple Sean and Claudia deal with their three children as well as Sean's judgmental father and his carefree brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GROWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WISCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WISKolker, Robert.
Summary: "A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five Craigslist prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York magazine cover story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 KOLFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth resulting in tragedy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Fitzgerald 1984Summary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: A novel of sordid living and violent death in Long Island society of the 1920's. The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, agent and friends and associates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Calcaterra, Regina
Summary: A tenacious lawyer, state official, and activist recounts her childhood in foster homes and on the streets with her four siblings, revealing a life of horrible abuse in the shadows between Manhattan and the Hamptons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALCATERRA, REGINA CALKnutson, Julie
Summary: "Learn more about how New York City's High Line park went from abandoned elevated railway to vibrant urban park and art space. Explore the logistics of repurposing the land and meet the people who made it happen. The book showcases a range of 21st centuryskills - from "Flexibility & Adaptation" to "Creativity & Innovation"-and shows how moving away from a tear-down culture towards one of reuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 KNUKhalid, Zain
Summary: "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022