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Summary: Actual Malice is a true crime thriller that will take you through the back rooms of political gamesmanship, deception, and cover-up. In May of 2001, the moderate Blue Dog Democrats - of which Gary Condit was a founding member - held significant power in Congress. The sky was the limit. When Chandra Levy, an Bureau of Prisons intern, disappeared in 2001, the wheels came off Gary's ambitions....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ghost Mountain Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PEABrisson, Luc.
Summary: The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 184 BRIPlato.
Summary: Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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Summary: The author takes readers on a tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 919.4 BRYCopies Available at Interlochen
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Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRYSON, BILL BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: [In this book, the author] offers a playfully anecdotal account of the etymology of distinctive words and phrases that help to create a distinctly American English. -http://www.bookinprint.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.973 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson offers a portrait of the Bard, presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace and academics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 643.1 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, and hardware stores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson recounts some of the strange experiences he had when he returned to the United States after living in Britain for twenty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Shakespeare 2007Bryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson shares his breath-taking adventures and the fascinating history of the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, as he travels slowly on foot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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Summary: Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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Summary: "The Smurfs Anthology presents Peyo's original Smurfs graphic novels in the original order that they were first published, as well as the Johan and Peewit graphic novels in which they first appeared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PEYPlato.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopædia Britannica 1952
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 184Plato.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 184 PLAPlato.
Summary: One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth century B.C. Republic begins by posing a central question: "What is justice, and why should we be just, especially when the wicked often seem happier and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Pub. Co. 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 PLAPlato.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxoc Audiobooks 1995
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Summary: Loving to play sports but unable to get the other Smurfs to play with him, Hefty Smurf organizes the "Smurf Olympics," but when neither team will select Weakling Smurf, he is forced to compete on his own for the grand prize of a Smurfette kiss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEYBryson, Bill.
Summary: From one of the most beloved authors of our time--more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone--a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. "Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up." Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010
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Summary: "...A personal collection, built up over thirty years as a writer and editor in two countries" and "intended as a quick, concise guide to the problems of English spelling and usage." First published in the 1980s, Bryson's compilation has been updated and re-released, and includes definitions, guides to punctuation and grammar, and helpful conversion tables (Celsius to Fahrenheit; kilometers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.1 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 BRYCopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRYSON, BILL BryBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryon backpacks across Europe, retracing the same steps he took 30 years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992