Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA MOZScattergood, Augusta.
Summary: In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Scattergood 2012Stevenson, Augusta.
Summary: Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOOScattergood, Augusta.
Summary: Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCARenoir, Auguste
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1978
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.4 MARFothergill, Augusta Bridgland (Middleton)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3755 FotheAndrews, Julie
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoAugust, Oliver
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.087 AUGKopisch, August
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOPTrapp, Maria Augusta.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1959
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TRAAugustin, Marion
Summary: "As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them - about where all the art they see in their lives started"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 700.9 AUGArgueta, Jorge
Summary: "Describes--in English, Spanish, and Nahuat--the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGAugustyn, Brian.
Summary: What would the Gotham City of one hundred years ago have been like? In an age of mystery and superstition, how would the people of Gotham react to a weird creature of the night, a bat-garbed vigilante feared by the guilty and the innocent alike? Some would live in terror. Others would rest easier. Only one man would take no notice at all, a man with other matters to attend to. His name? No one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATAugusta County (Va.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1965
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.37552 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3755 C
Goldin, Augusta R.
Summary: Describes the behavior of different kinds of ducks and, in particular, discusses how all ducks use preening to keep their feathers dry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1999
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.41 GOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LETSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISArgueta, Jorge.
Summary: Provides a poetic recipe for rice pudding that not only offers instructions for making the treat but highlights the ways in which it can delight all the senses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ARG SPANISHArgueta, Jorge.
Summary: A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: A collection of personal tales features the author's wry observations about such topics as eBay addiction, gay personal ads, and Santa Claus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 BURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Draws on the author's roller-coaster experiences with limited opportunities, successes, and failures, to offer darkly humorous advice on surviving everything from riding elevators and gaining weight to finishing drinks and finding love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BURWilcox, Collin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCiotti, Donatella.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2000