Fridland, Valerie
Summary: "A linguistic exploration of the speech habits we love to hate-and why our "um"s, "like"s, and "you know"s actually make us better communicators. Do you hate that you say "like" too much? Do you go over your email drafts to remove excess "so"s and "really"s? Do you wish your presentation at work wasn't so full of "um"s and "uh"s? Do you get tripped up by slang, overly familiar greetings, or new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 420.1 FRIBoobyer, Victoria
Summary: "Level 4 of a complete self-study English-language course that combines easy-to-use visual learning with crystal-clear grammar explanations, practice exercises, and free audio."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 BOOCanadeo, Anne
Summary: "The Black Sheep Knitters are on the case when a club member's ex-boyfriend is accused of murder at the Plum Harbor Farmers and Crafts Market in the fourth installment of New York Times bestselling author Anne Canadeo's knitting-themed Black Sheep & Co. Mystery series. Romantic entanglements and handcrafted murder tie the Black Sheep knitters in knots when the local farmers' market becomes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Katie learns what a vegetable farmer does when she visits a farm and helps sell the vegetables at a farmers market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 STAJohnson, Lois
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Publisher / Publication Date: Painted Turtle Book 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59774 JOHSchaub, Michelle
Summary: A collection of poems celebrates farmers' markets and the things that can be seen and found there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SCHSummary: "A film about cinema itself, with close readings of some of the most intriguing and celebrated films in cinema history. Serving as guide is the charismatic Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, who delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Structured in three parts, the Pervert's Guide To Cinema offers an introduction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: P Guide 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PERWang, John
Summary: "A look at the food that vendors from all over the world serve at the Queens Night Market in Queens, New York, the most diverse urban area on Earth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020
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Summary: A boy, his pet dragon, and his mother go to a farmer's market and buy fruit, vegetables, and flowers. An adapted, early emergent reader that includes a picture glossary, common sight words list, activities, and a note to caregivers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CONSciolino, Elaine
Summary: "Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944 SCIMarkel, Michelle.
Summary: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MARMyers, Dan
Summary: "Introduces readers to the Green Bay Packers, providing exciting details about today's stars and going deep inside the key moments of the team's history. The title also features informative "fast facts," a timeline, and a glossary."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 MYEStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920.72 STO1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920.72 STO
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STOSummary: Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARSharratt, Mary
Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAGleason, John A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitney Library of Design 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 GLEKilpatrick, Karen
Summary: Meet the Markers! They love to color. But Purple Marker colors everywhere--even outside the lines. When the other markers call his creativity a mistake, it's up to Pencil and Eraser to help Purple discover how making mistakes and making art go hand-in-hand. This hilarious and clever picture book allows Pencil and Eraser to show Purple Marker--and the rest of us--how to turn our messes into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KILSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Watch as Big Boy the cement truck mixes it up, while Flying J the fuel tanker keeps all those engines at the truck stop purring along. See how a truck is built in the assembly plant, and see a truck that transforms itself into an amusement ride. Head out on the highway and get ready to rumble with the Mighty Machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIGPritchard, Forrest.
Summary: Upon discovering that months of backbreaking work and five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped his family's farm a profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard, fresh out of college, resolves to take matters into his own hands. What ensues--through a series of hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters--is a crash course in sustainable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home PritchardBolles, Richard Nelson.
Summary: "The first interview book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles. Interviews instill fear in many a job-hunter, but this empowering guide from the father of career development, Richard Bolles, reveals that interviews are reallyjust conversations to determine if the work--and workplace--is a great fit for both parties. In the very first Parachute-branded book to focus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 BOLPatterson, James
Summary: The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case, and sources lead him to a homicide in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020