Elkins, Kimberly.
Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the life and challenges of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind woman to learn language, and those who helped her, including the founder of the Perkins Institute, with whom she was in love, and her beloved teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKDylan, Bob
Summary: A full-length musical theater piece, written and directed by Conor McPherson, which boldly reimagines the songs of Bob Dylan in provocative new dramatic contexts. All lyrics and music in the show are by Bob Dylan except for two co-writes. The Original Broadway Cast performing Girl from the North Country includes Todd Almond, Jeannette Bayardelle, Caitlin Houlahan, Robert Joy, Tony Award nominee...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GIRMelvins
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2024
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Contents: Skweetis -- Queen -- Sweet Willy Rollbar -- Revolve -- Goose freight train -- Roadbull -- At the stake -- Magic pig detective -- Shevil -- June bug -- Lividity.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MelviFaber, Adele.
Summary: Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish examine the inevitable stresses faced by parents of teenagers. Through role play and discussion, they show how to keep communication open with rebellious offspring, how to let go gracefully and yet retain respect and some degree of co-operation throughout these difficult years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Piccadilly 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 FABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 FABMelvins
Contents: Nude with boots -- Dog island -- Dies iraea -- Civilized worm -- The kicking machine -- Eye flys -- Tipping the lion -- Rat faced granny -- The hawk -- You've never been right -- A history of bad men -- Star spangled banner -- Boris.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MELFaber, Adele.
Summary: In this international bestseller, experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish provide effective step by step techniques to help you improve and enrich your relationships with your children. Learn how to: Break a pattern of arguments Cope with negative feelings Engage your child's cooperation Set clear limits and maintain goodwill Express your emotions without being hurtful Resolve conflicts peacefully.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Piccadilly Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 FABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent FaberElkins, James
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.14 ElkEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: Through their correspondence, John and Abigail Adams' relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 ADAMS, JOHN EllisSummary: Follows the life of Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, who overcame problems in school and obstacles in life to become a world-renowned neurosurgeon. His lifelong journey led him to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, a bestselling author, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Includes behind-the-scenes, and featurettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIFTait, Kimberley
Summary: "Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset. Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two: M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAIWimberly, Ronald
Summary: "A soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BULLARD, EUGENE WIMElkins, Caroline
Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKElkins, Elizabeth
Summary: Overturned cars. Destroyed houses. Snapped power lines. The powerful winds of a tornado can cause a devastating amount of damage in a short time. Get an up-close look at how tornadoes form and learn about some of history’s worst twisters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 ELKAlkins, John.
Contents: Sacred wood -- Columbia river suite: Rising star ; Source spring ; Meander downstream ; Currents in motion ; I am ; Ocean home -- Reflection -- Both sides -- Page lodge -- Water music -- Shining star-Ocean home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Alkins 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE ALKElkins, Stanley
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ELKElkin, Stanley
Contents: Her sense of timing -- Town crier exclusive, confessions of a Princess manqué -- Van Gogh's room at Arles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKKimberley, Hannah
Summary: Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, swimmer, oarswoman, horsewoman, splendid conversationalist, and well-trained listener. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who never let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame as the third woman recorded in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PECK, ANNIE SMITH KIMWoodhouse, Kimberley
Summary: Can Olivia survive the crime and Gold Rush fever of 1849...and the countless marriage proposals? A series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. The Daughters of the Mayflower series continues when Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother's restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold. Even though she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOHamilton, Kimberlie
Summary: Drawing from the thrilling lives of more than 30 adorable cats throughout history, Kimberlie Hamilton retells the fascinating tales of cats through the centuries. Meet Mrs. Chippy, a cat who joined a daring ocean journey to Antarctica, or Simon, the only cat to receive a medal for wartime bravery, and dozens more. Filled with colorful depictions of each cat and feline facts throughout, this is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.8 HAMW Winberly
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Music 1976
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMElkin, Benjamin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1954
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Summary: The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ELKElkind, David
Summary: Charts the baby-boom generation's obsession with raising successful children and the adverse results experienced by youngsters asked to do too much too soon, and offers advice on avoiding this syndrome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001