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American wit and humor, Pictorial Comic books, strips, etc Divorced mothers New York (State) Freeville Biography Eames, Charles Eames, Ray Hickam, Homer H 1943- Childhood and youth Hickam, Homer H 1943- Homes and haunts West Virginia Motherhood New York (State) Freeville Office of Charles and Ray Eames. United StatesBlount, Roy.
Summary: An autobiographical account of the life of Roy Blount that discusses his childhood, his relationship with his mother, his desire to be funny, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 BLOBlount, Roy.
Summary: "Hard-working humorist Roy Blount Jr. lives in the North but he's from the South, a delicious tension that has always informed and shaped his work. In this new collection, he directs his acerbic wit and finely-tuned insight toward the persistent and colorful differences between the two. His essays treat every conceivable topic on which North and South misunderstand each other, from music to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 BLOMullen, Jim (Jim R.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MULEby, Margaret
Summary: "A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. As the writer Elif Batuman did for Russian literature in The Possessed, Margaret Eby does for Southern literature in this charming book of literary exploration. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Barry Hannah) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 EBYHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HICGriswold, Mac K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.41 GRIDickinson, Amy.
Summary: In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson, syndicated advice columnist and weekly National Public Radio celeb, shares her remarkable story--a tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 DICDickinson, Amy.
Summary: In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson, syndicated advice columnist and weekly National Public Radio celeb, shares her remarkable story--a tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 DICDavies, Ray
Summary: The British Invasion musician discusses his love/hate relationship with America, from his first U.S. tour in the early 1960s to being nearly murdered during a botched robbery in New Orleans in 2004.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 DAVSummary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMCobb, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 COBJohnson, Clint
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 JOHAnderson, William
Summary: A comprehensive guidebook to all the homes in which Laura Ingalls Wilder once lived and which have now been preserved as historic landmarks and museums.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 813.52 ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 813.52 Anderson 2007Hickam, Homer H.
Summary: Homar Hickam chronicles the experiences he has as a young boy growing up in the small coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HICHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HICThomas, Peggy.
Summary: Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.4 THOWatterson, Bill.
Summary: The final collection of comic strips from the popular syndicated series follows the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel Publishing 1996
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 741.5 WATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J Graphic WatVowell, Sarah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.099 VOWWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILBelleville, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 BELLaRose, Lawrence.
Summary: Describes how an recently unemployed writer and Manhattanite and his new wife purchased a decrepit fixer-upper in Sag Harbor, New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.7 LARSummary: A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Green 2007Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.
Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 KAPSteig, William
Summary: A peak at the life of William Steig in 1916 when he was a young boy living in the Bronx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2003