Geist, William.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9240 GEILassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASSummary: Thirteen prominent cartoonists discuss their creative processes and the experiences and influences that led to their success in one of today's most vibrant art forms. Each interview is followed by an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 COMBrown, Rita Mae
Summary: "Set against the backdrop of America emerging from World War I, Cakewalk provides an entertaining look at a small town straddling the Mason Dixon line, where the townsfolk remain split between good and bad, or love and sex, or male and female, or politics and sobriety, and the inimitable, irrepressible, distinctly free-thinking Hunsenmier sisters, Louise and Julia--otherwise known as Wheezie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROAldredge, Betsy
Summary: New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she’s surrounded by both when she’s snowed in at her grandmother’s home in a small Texas town. Missing latkes and reliable Wi-Fi, Hannah wanders into an old deli where she meets the only other Jewish teen around: Noah, who happens to be equal parts adorable and full of annoying, over the top festival of lights spirit that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ALDSummary: An elderly Chinese man routs evil in a Western frontier town by setting up his circus for the townspeople. The various performers affect each of the circus' visitors in a different way, and in the end the unscrupulous citizen who dominates the town repents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2011
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY SEVBalkan, Gabrielle
Summary: Illustrated maps of fifty American cities feature famous residents, and key cultural sites and are complemented by a guide to daily life in the city and numerous city facts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 BALBerkowitz, Leah Rachel
Summary: "A boy and his mom move to the city shortly before Sukkot and need to figure out where to build a sukkah and how to make new holiday traditions in an unfamiliar place"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERSummary: "The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul"
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TWISummary: It's Season six, and as the kids keep getting older, Frankie and Mike think family life is going to get easier, but they couldn't be more wrong! Bigger kids only means bigger problems! With Brick starting seventh grade as well as a new relationship, there just might be hope for him. Meanwhile, it's the 'year of sue' and Sue is navigating her way through her senior year of high school with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Frankie and Mike Heck are frazzled parents trying to stretch their patience and paychecks around three brilliantly true-to-life kids: Axl, whose latest dream girl has tattoos, body piercings, and pink hair; Sue, who's thrilled to come in eighth (out of eight) in Square Dancing with the Stars; and Brick, the only kid who has his birthday party at the public library.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDWalters, Wendy S.
Summary: "I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it." In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 WALSummary: In Barcelona, Spain during the last decade of the Cold War, Ted Boynton, the Spanish representative for a Chicago electric engine firm, plays host to his cousin, Fred Boynton, a lieutenant in the Navy. Ted is earnest and ambitious, but not a typical American salesman. Fred is an advance man for the Sixth Fleet's upcoming shore leave. They are smart but somewhat naive white-collar workers, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARFeldstein, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Books 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.7655 BLOSummary: Rick Stevens is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through 60 hours of discoveries in his favorite European cities, villages, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. The complete DVD set brings you every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows- plus his highly acclaimed, hour-long TV specials.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 RICRaúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUSummary: A heartwarming look at family and friendship, and the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUMCole, Henry
Summary: In this wordless picture book, a cat named Spot ventures out an open window and through a city on a journey, while his owner tries to find him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLSummary: The daily mishaps of a harried woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempt to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFWilliams, Marjorie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005