Contents: Introduction : three views of the shadow / Robert Bly -- Touching our darkness through stories and art / Mark Robert Waldman -- Ruplestiltskin / Anne Sexton -- The monster never dies / Stephen King -- A dark fable / Joyce Carol Oates -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Not with a bang / Howard Fast -- In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 SHAContents: Introduction / Jean Houston -- A nation of seekers / Mark Robert Waldman -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- There's no place like home / L. Frank Baum -- A city of churches / Donald Barthelme -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Jonathan Edwards -- Brother Jake and the Preacher / Lorraine Johnson-Coleman -- The problem of Old Harjo / John M. Oskison -- I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 SEESchlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)
Summary: "Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH VOL 1Drake, David.
Summary: The great city of Carce and all life on Earth will be destroyed unless two young men, Corylus and Varus, and two women, Hedia and Alphena, pursue the answer to the mysterious and threatening happenings that prefigure this disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAGetz, Stan
Contents: Disc 1. Stella by starlight / Ned Washington, Victor Young (2:42) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills (6:37) -- Nobody else but me / Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II (3:32) -- Flamingo / Ted Grouya, Ed Anderson (7:22) -- Summertime / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward (6:02) -- Shine / Ford Dabney, Cecil Mack, Lew Brown (8:51) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GETDrakeford, Scott
Summary: "Scott Drakeford's epic fantasy debut, Rise of the Mages combines gripping, personal vengeance with compelling characters for an action packed first book in a trilogy. Emrael Ire wants nothing more than to test to be a weapons master. His final exam will be a bloody insurrection, staged by corrupt nobles and priests, that enslaves his brother. With the aid of his War Master tutor, herself an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRASummary: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEEBirney, Betty G.
Summary: "Og the Frog tells the story of how he first came to Room 26, where he meets Humphrey the hamster, befriends the students, and writes poems and songs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BIRKimelman, Emily.
Summary: "Justice with a Vengeance. She'll risk everything to bring a killer to justice... After one too many deadbeat boyfriends, Joy needed a fresh new start. She swapped out her man for a lovable pooch named Blue and picked up a dog walking gig on the Upper East Side. But she never expected her new lease on life would include a dead body... When her curiosity takes her deeper into the case, she and...
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Summary: It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LASSchlesinger, Arthur M Jr.
Summary: "Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH VOL 2Adams, Alane
Summary: Abigail's new witch powers are tested by Endera, her rival at Tarkana Witch Academy, and by protecting her new friend Hugo, and then are fully challenged when she mistakenly gets involved with the Netherworld's Queen Octonia and her spiderlings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JT Fantasy AdamsLin, Judy I.
Summary: Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINForbes, Lani
Summary: Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORWilce, Ysabeau S.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical--and long-banished--butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WilceSummary: Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001