Hardiman, Rebecca
Summary: "When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits' end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his sulky, misbehaved teenaged daughter, Aideen, whose troubles escalate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHardeman, Don W.
Summary: "A gripping story set over 24 hours where readers will come face-to-face with the most amazing bears in the world, written by expert Don Hardeman Jr."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neon Squid 2023
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Summary: Presents several of the most dangerous, dirty, and otherwise unpleasant jobs done in ancient Greece and Rome, including peasant, slave, Olympic pankratist, laborer, fuller, gladiator, and soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937 HARHardyman, Robyn
Summary: Presents several of the most dangerous, dirty, and otherwise unpleasant jobs done in ancient Egypt, including bleacher, embalmer, quarry worker, paint mixer, farmer, housewife, brick maker, and miner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 HARHardman, Robert
Summary: "On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state and has engaged with the world like no other monarch in modern history. Since her coronation, she has visited over 130 countries across the ever-changing globe, acting as diplomat, stateswoman, pioneer, and peace-broker. She has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH HARHardyman, Robyn
Summary: "In this . . . science book readers will find out why we burn fossil fuels, the harm it is causing, and why evolution in the geothermal industry could make it a powerful weapon in the fight to create a sustainable future."--Google books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cheriton Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 621.44 HARHardyman, Robyn
Summary: Presents several of the most dangerous, dirty, and otherwise unpleasant jobs done in medieval times, including peasant, bog iron collector, woad dyer, fuller, barber-surgeon, and plague doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 HARHardyman, Robyn
Summary: Find out more about democracy, which countries use it to govern, and learn some positives and negatives about this type of government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 321.8 HARHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: Harrigan uses a fictional character friend to give a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearing as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be his.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "The novel opens in 1832 in the Black Hawk War, when Micajah (Cage) Weatherby--an imaginary character--and Lincoln meet. Afterwards Cage musters out to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes part of the group of ambitious young men, which includes Lincoln, in this frontier town on the make. And it is through Cage that we come to know his friend Lincoln in his twenties and early thirties, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarimann, Sierra.
Summary: "Hannah isn't thrilled to be moving in with her dad and his new family, who live in a house this close to a spooky cemetery. Luckily, Hannah doesn't believe all the "ghost cat" stories she's heard about the graveyard. Besides, Hannah has bigger worries: her stepsister, Madison, is a total mean girl. Hanah's cat, Icky, has been missing since the move. And worst of all, every night something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HARHerriman, George
Summary: Collects the strips from years 1922 to 1925, along with the complete runs of the cartoonist's 1903 first daily strip "Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who is Always Late," and his Sundays-only strip from the 1920s, "US Husbands."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HERHardman, Robert
Summary: "No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world. He is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled access to the king, the royal family, and the court,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: "A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the seventieth anniversary of her reign by a renowned royal biographer."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II, QUEEN HARHardman, Robert.
Summary: An intimate portrait of England's longest-reigning queen, in celebration of her diamond jubilee -- and the first-ever book interview with her grandson, HRH, the Prince of Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II HARFadiman, Anne
Summary: When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents were part of a large Hmong community in Merced. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.461 FADHartigan, Patti
Summary: "The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, AUGUST HARHartzman, Marc
Summary: Ghosts are everywhere--whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know--and is embedded in the very fabric of American history. Writer and historian Marc Hartzman dons the mantle of tour guide, taking readers on a fascinating journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 HARHerriman, Nancy
Summary: Herbalist and widow Bess Ellyott tries to escape the loss of her husband in Elizabethan London only to find that death is following her, and she may very well be next in Searcher of the Dead, the first in a new historical mystery series by Nancy Herriman. Living amid the cultural flowering, religious strife, and political storms of Tudor England, Bess Ellyott is an herbalist, a widow, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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Summary: When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.4 FADFadiman, Anne
Summary: In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines-with all her characteristic wit and feeling-her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine-along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature-was an essential element of Clifton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 FADHarrigan, Haley
Summary: Ten years ago, Julie Portland accidentally killed her best friend, Reba. What's worse is she got away with it. Consumed by guilt, she left the small town of Lawrence Mill, Mississippi, and swore nothing would ever drag her back. Now, raising her daughter and struggling to make ends meet in Manhattan, Julie still can't forget the ghost of a girl with golden hair and a dangerous secret. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHarrigan, Sharon
Summary: "Growing up, identical twins Paula and Artis speak in one voice--until they can't. After years apart, with lives, partners, and children of their own, they are reunited on the occasion of their father's funeral. Seeking to repair the damage wrought upon their relationship by outside forces, the twins retrace their early lives to uncover what happened--but risk unraveling their carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarshman, Marc
Summary: This book guides readers through the process American architect Frank Lloyd Wright used in designing Fallingwater, a now-famous house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, perched atop a waterfall. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017