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Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Drugs Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience Mystery and detective stories Presidents United States Biography Juvenile literature Psychotropic drugs Psychotropic plants Religion Solar system United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Juvenile literatureHargrove, Jim.
Summary: Recounts the life of the general who led Allied troops to victory in World War II and became thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1987
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB EISENHOWE HARClinton, Susan.
Summary: Recounts the story of America's fourth president, known as the Father of the Constitution, describing his early life in Virginia and his many years of service in public office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MADISON CLIRoth, Philip.
Contents: American pastoral -- I married a communist -- The human stain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTMiller, Arthur
Summary: This volume---the second on The Library of America's definitive edition of the works of Arthur Miller---offers an unprecedented look at the extraordinary middle phase of an essential American dramatist. Here are fourteen plays, from Broadway hits to previously unpublished rarities, that trace Miller's evolving genius as he experimented with new forms and themes. Included are After the Fall, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 MILLocke, Raymond Friday
Contents: The Dutch colonial failure in New York, by C. B. Currey.--Meet Wiley and Micajah Harpe: unkind men, by G. G. Hatheway.--Benjamin West: the Quaker Rembrandt, by R. H. Andrews.--The Aaron Burr affair, by R. H. Andrews.--William Duer and the origins of the New York Stock Exchange, by R. Sobel.--John Adams: the first angry man in the White House, by R. H. Andrews.--The ride a nation forgot, by H....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mankind Pub. Co. 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.08 LOCSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as toys missing from a fair, music stolen from a singer-songwriter, and arrowheads that disappear during a campout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
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Summary: Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective extraordinaire, solves ten new cases, including "The Case of the Miracle Pill," "The Case of Nemo's Tuba," "The Case of the Lawn Mower Races," and "The Case of the Air Guitar."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Skylark 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBMarcovitz, Hal.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KEN MARSummary: This program covers both scientific and utility satellites. Geostationary utility satellites include communication, meteorological, and broadcasting satellites; the science satellites cover an almost limitless range, from Explorer 1's discovery of the Van Allen Belt in 1958, to the discovery of solar wind and the gradual solution to the mystery of the polar auroras; Landsat, the Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Knox, Jean McBee.
Summary: Explores the history of man's use of drugs that alter consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 SONSobol, Donald J.
Summary: The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSullivan, Anne Marie.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROO SULMarcovitz, Hal.
Summary: A biography of the forty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLI MARSaffer, Barbara.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-third president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TRU SAFHering, Marianne.
Summary: Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Willie along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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Summary: Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TwainSummary: This program begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and explains the history and requirements of Project Mercury-the first manned orbital flight by the U.S. It covers training for high gravity and weightlessness; the development of a life-support system for space and a spaceship; the response to the flight of Yuri Gagarin; the first American manned space flight-Alan Shepard's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Since the time of Icarus, man has tried to fly. This program covers the history of flight, from the invention of the propeller through the Wright Brothers' first flight and Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic solo; profiles Robert Goddard and traces the development of the rocket from the beginning, through the development of gyroscopic instruments, the V-2, Sputnik, and Explorer 1; traces the advances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Check, William A.
Summary: Discusses the forms of child abuse, its historical and cultural context, and society's methods of dealing with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 CHEFeinberg, Barbara Silberdick.
Summary: Presents a biography of the wife of the thirty-third president of the United States, a woman who preferred the privacy of family life to the public role of First Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TRUMAN FEIRichardson, P. Mick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1986