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Ellis, Janet

Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELL

LaFrieda, Pat

Summary: "It all began when Pat LaFrieda's great-grandfather Anthony LaFrieda decided to pack up and move his family from Italy to New York in search of a better life, setting up the family's first retail butcher shop in 1922 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Almost one hundred years later, Pat LaFrieda, a fourth-generation butcher and third-generation meat purveyor, is at the helm of a family-run business that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 LAF

Ellis, Janet.

Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

Erdrich, Louise.

Summary: Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERD

Ocejo, Richard E

Summary: " In today's new economy--in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based--many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 OCE

Davis, Camas

Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAV

Gilligan, Ruth

Summary: "Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter. The Butchers' Blessing moves between the events of 1996 and the present, offering a simmering glimpse into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Leyner, Mark.

Summary: Modern gods and goddesses wreak havoc on an unemployed butcher from New Jersey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEY

Goolrick, Robert

Summary: In a small Virginia town, Charlie Beale meets Sylvan Glass, the bride of the town's richest man, and Sam Haislett, the son of owner of the butcher shop where Charlie gets a job, and soon the interaction between Charlie, Sylvan, and Sam alters the town forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOO

Powell, Julie.

Summary: Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.5 POW

Powell, Julie.

Summary: Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 POW

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWELL, JULIE POW

Prose, Francine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1981

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRO

Butcher, Barbara

Summary: "Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, BARBARA BUT

Guggiana, Marissa.

Summary: Fifty butchers from across the United States share their favorite recipes and offer tips for choosing, seasoning, and working with different cuts of meat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.66 GUG

Summary: An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAN

Maddox, Jake

Summary: After his embarrassing strike out last season Eddie Jackson decided to quit baseball and stick to band practice, but Coach persuades him to join the team as the backup catcher--then the starter is injured and Eddie finds himself back in the lineup, facing his fear of failing the team.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017

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Summary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ca

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAT

Maddox, Jake

Summary: When his father's valuable signed baseball disappears during the team's sleepover, Ian Shin, catcher for the Scottsville Knights, suspects the new pitcher, Hunter Yates, but he cannot be sure, and his trust in his teammates is shattered--so he must uncover the truth to bring the team back together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2016

Zarankin, Julia

Summary: "When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn't expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas and McIntyre 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZARANKIN, JULIA ZAR

Dutcher, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 DUT

Rappoport, Ken.

Summary: "A collective biography of the top 10 pitchers, both past and present, which includes accounts of game action, career statistics, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.35722 RAP

Buck, Clifford M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kinship 1990

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3747 BUC

Kronos Quartet

Contents: Oh where / with Sam Amidon -- Ramblin' boy / with Olivia Chaney -- The butchers boy / with Natalie Merchant -- Factory girl / with Rhiannon Giddens -- Last kind words -- I see the sign / with Sam Amidon -- Montaigne, que tu es haute / with Olivia Chaney -- Johnny has gone for a soldier / with Natalie Merchant -- Lullaby / with Rhiannon Giddens.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KRO

Jones, Carrie

Summary: "Biography of Major League Baseball catcher and coach who was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BER

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