Bryant, Jennifer.
Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BRAILLE BRYFrith, Margaret
Summary: Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system of raised dots by which blind people read and write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Gut bucket (James Brown) -- Funky women (Maceo and All the King's Men) -- If you don't give me what I want (I gonna get it some other place) (Vicki Anderson) -- You can't love me if you don't respect me (Lyn Collins) -- Get on the good foot (live) (James Brown) -- Between two sheets (Fred Mosley & The Horny Horns) -- What so never the dance (Bootsy Collins) -- Get up, get into it, get involved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MOJBaggott, Stella.
Summary: Colorful pictures depict such animals as a fluffy duck, shiny fish, hairy dog, and furry cat. On board pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Freedman, Russell.
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRABradlee, Ben
Summary: "Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BRABrazile, Donna
Summary: "Donna Brazile's explosive book is the first insider account of the Russian hacking of the DNC and the missteps by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that enabled Donald Trump's victory. In June 2016 the Washington Post first reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the Democratic National Committee. Barely a month later, these cyber criminals--which the U.S. government later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Hamilton 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABrazile, Donna
Summary: "The lives of black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Politics is a sweeping view of American history from the vantage points of four women who have lived and worked behind the scenes in politics for over thirty years--Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore--a group of women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 BRABaillie, Allan
Summary: "A noble dragon fighter sets out on an expedition to fight the last dragon. Would you like to come along? Through shifting sands and tangled forests and past the whispering abyss, many awful perils are braved - witches, trolls, werewolves, ghost owls, scorpions, and vultures - but where is the dragon? This clever tale by Allan Baillie and Wayne Harris is not to be missed by anyone with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAIBramble, Forbes
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABataille, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dufour Editions 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 841.91 BATBataille, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848 BATGaille, Gina
Summary: "'What's the strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced?' Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary. [Their book] recounts 50 of these bizarre, mysterious, horrible [and] hilarious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel GailleAbbott, Bailee
Summary: "For Chloe Abbington, the transition from fine art painter in New York City to painting-event business owner in charming Whisper Cove is more than a little jarring. But when poison-pen journalist Fiona Gimble writes a viciously negative review of the newly opened Paint with a View, Chloe learns that critics are the same everywhere. And when she finds Fiona's body behind her shop with a painting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Abbott 2022Bailie, Gil.
Summary: Shows how the system of sacred violence at the heart of the conventional culture is being undermined by the bibical tradition, especially the Gospel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. 1997