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Who was-- ?Sweet, Melissa
Summary: Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephermera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children's book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHIJackson, Angela
Summary: Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago's South Side, a world of kitchenette...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOKS, GWENDOLYN JACHerkert, Barbara
Summary: A biography of the author known for such beloved classics as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," explores how his lifelong fascination with the outdoors inspired his most popular work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHIBrooks, John
Summary: "An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROHerman, Gail
Summary: "An entertaining biography of the man behind Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, two of the best loved children's books of all time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHISlade, Suzanne
Summary: Introduces the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks, from her early love of poetry and her first published poems as a girl in Chicago through her financial struggles as an adult during the Depression to winning the Pulitzer Prize for her second book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BROSummary: The definitive documentary of Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo artist of all time, offers an intimate look at Brooks' music and his life as a musician, father, and man. Fans will be delighted with seminal hit songs and the unforgettable moments that have defined his decade-spanning career. Featuring revealing interviews with Trisha Yearwood, Billy Joel, Keith Urban, George Strait, James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GARBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Preserved in the cellar of her parents' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Brooks, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BROBalko, Radley
Summary: Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher. "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614 BALBrooks, Mel
Summary: The legendary comedian, actor, and film producer and director traces his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to his stellar film career, offering insight into the inspiration for his ideas and the many close friendships and collaborations behind his success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOKS, MEL BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BROOKS BROSummary: Mel Brooks, the comedian, director and screenwriter, has energetically avoided a documentary profile from being made, until now. He has agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MELSims, Michael.
Summary: As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, E. B., SIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WHITE SIMSFisher, Edwin L. (Edwin Lewis)
Summary: William Fisher (ca. 1795-1823) arrived in America during the War of 1812 and did not return to England. He and Betsy Burnett were married in Salem, Massachusetts and their first son, John Edward Fisher was born in 1818. Their son, David, emigrated to Canada. Other descendants lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [E.L. Fisher] 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FISHER FisherBrooks, Max.
Summary: "From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters. The Harlem Hellfighters is a fictionalized account of the 369th Infantry Regiment--the first African American regiment mustered to fight in World War I. From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROBrockes, Emma.
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BROKaras, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1997
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Summary: "After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOKINS, CARA BROBrockes, Emma
Summary: "From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, EMMA BROMcFarland, K.T.H
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Publisher / Publication Date: Closson Press 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3754 MCFArnosky, Jim.
Summary: Slick salamanders, speedy catfish, curious crayfish, and other creatures are featured in an illustrated introduction to freshwater brooks and streams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2008