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Authors, Scottish Authors, Scottish 19th century Biography Authors, Scottish 20th century Biography Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 Juvenile literature Children's poetry, English Scottish authors Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930 Grahame, Kenneth 1859-1932 Holmes, Sherlock Large type books Sir Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930Boström, Mattias
Summary: "Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 BOSSandford, Christopher
Summary: "When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife, marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN SANLycett, Andrew.
Summary: A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes shows how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning as a small-town doctor, became a friend to the famous, a celebrated writer, and a psychic investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN LYCMiller, Russell.
Summary: Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favorite writers; his work is read with affection--and sometimes obsession--the world over, but his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh. He struggled both as a young doctor and in his early attempts to sell short stories, having only limited success until Sherlock Holmes propelled him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN MILDennison, Matthew
Summary: "A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GRAHAME, KENNETH DENBechtel, Stefan
Summary: "After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic...The movement's most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: Picture-book biography presents the life of James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BARRIE YOLPope-Hennessy, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEVENSON, ROBERT HENStevenson, Robert Louis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.809 STEBoswell, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.6 BOSSummary: "This Intimate Biography" has been designed to explore not only the legend of Sherlock Holmes, but also take you on a journey of discovery through the life and times of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment 2005
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Adams, Cynthia
Summary: Discusses the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DOYLE ADAWoolfson, Esther.
Summary: Explores the many similarities between humans and corvids through the relationships that the author's family share with a rook, talking magpie, baby crow, and other feathered friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.864 WOOStevenson, Robert Louis
Summary: An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.8 STEStevenson, Robert Louis
Summary: This poem captures the magic of nighttime and its many nocturnal creatures, as well as the special love between a father and son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006