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(Fictitious character) Bond, James (Fictitious character) Doctor Great Britain Monsters in literature Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) Rowling, J. K Rowling, J. K Characters Harry Potter Handbooks, manuals, etc Science in literature Scientists in literature Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851Kronzek, Allan Zola.
Summary: Explores the true history, folklore, and mythology behind the magical practices, creatures and personalities that appear in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 823 KROWaters, Galadriel.
Summary: A guide to J.K. Rowling's first four Harry Potter novels analyzes mysterious elements, themes, and puzzles hidden throughout the works and speculates about the plots and endings of future volumes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizarding World Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 WATUpdike, John.
Summary: Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDEyles, Allen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 EYLSmith, Sean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael O'Mara 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SMISexton, Colleen A.
Summary: Presents a biography of celebrated author, J.K. Rowling, and chronicles her life, personal and professional challenges and achievements, and how she rose from poverty to eventually set records in the publishing industry with her Harry Potter series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROWLING SexEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSRehak, Melanie.
Summary: "Nancy [Drew] was brought to life by two remarkable women: ... Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, and author Mildred Wirt Benson, a convention-flouting journalist."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 REHStapinski, Helene
Summary: "An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STAHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HARAnelli, Melissa.
Contents: Release -- The beginning and the end -- Near misses -- Public assistance -- Spinning the Web -- Rocking at Hogwarts -- Work-life -- Getting a clue -- Banned and burned -- High seas -- Access -- The interview -- Independence -- On the (Internet) radio -- Spoiled -- One day more -- Deathly Hallows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 ANEWalker, Sally M
Summary: "When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brought her along to the military camp in England. Winnie followed Harry everywhere and slept under his cot every night. Before long, she became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINKeenan, Sheila
Summary: "Washington Irving published The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1820, introducing the eerie Headless Horseman character to readers worldwide. Readers were both scared and intrigued by the horrific character, who is the ghost of a soldier who had been decapitated during the American Revolution. Now, the character is an American classic, featured in movies, television shows, cartoons, comic books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 813.2 KEEHighfield, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 HIGSickels, Amy.
Contents: Wild about Harry -- "Quiet, freckly, short-sighted" -- Harry appears -- Half a suitcase of stories -- Bidding war -- A phenomenon in publishing -- Breaking records -- Creating Harry's world -- Harry's place in children's literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROWMiles, Lawrence.
Summary: Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, "About Time" focuses on the continuity of "Doctor Who" (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Norwegian Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 DOCHemingway, Ernest
Summary: "This paperback edition of Hemingway's second novel reprints the corrected text from the Library of America omnibus Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926. In an appendix it gathers writings related to The Sun Also Rises-a short selection of journalism and letters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Opinion, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC Day,Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: "Since the Punisher's first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures in Marvel's vast universe. The Punisher represents one of the most recognizable types of anti-heroes. His iconic skull insignia stands for a unique type of justice: protecting the innocent while violently eliminating everyone he sees as a villain....
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.59 JUDHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: "The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in Superspy Science Kathryn Harkup explores the full range of 007's exploits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HARLarson, Kirsten W.
Summary: Celebrates the iconic female superhero who has inspired generations of girls and women and raises up the many women who played a part in her evolution, making clear that the fight for gender equality is still going strong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, "About Time" focuses on the continuity of "Doctor Who" (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Norwegian Press 2006