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Common good Ethics, Renaissance Families Virginia Juvenile fiction Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688 Fiction Haskins, Don 1930- Drama London (England) History 17th century Fiction Philosophy, Renaissance Schools Juvenile fiction Virtue Women England History 17th century FictionContents: Volcano (2:48) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- 9:20 Special (3:07) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- Shiny Stockings (5:06) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- Cherokee (3:22) Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra. -- Skyliner (3:00) Charlie Barnet an
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BIGHawkwind
Contents: Technicians of spaceship earth (introduction) -- You shouldn't do that -- The awakening -- You know you're only dreaming -- Master of the universe -- Paranoia -- Earth calling -- Silver machine -- Welcome to the future -- Born to go
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easy Action Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAWErskine, Kathryn
Summary: "Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERSErskine, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BILErskine, Kathryn.
Summary: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERSContents: Volume 1. Dirty mother for you / (Roosevelt Sykes) -- So glad you're mine / (Arthur "Big BOy" crudup -- Too much alcohol / (J.B. Hutto & his Hawks) -- I wonder why / (Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins) -- Help me (A tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson) / (Junior Wells) -- I've got a mind to give up living / (B.B. King with Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals) -- John Henry / (Mississippi Fred McDowell) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ANNChilders, Erskine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seafarer 1998
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Summary: From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Love is as uncertain and as untameable as war... In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ERSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERSErskine, Kathryn.
Summary: When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERSErskine, Maya
Summary: Long-time friends Alice and Ben agree to be each other's date for the endless parade of their friends' weddings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PLUDawkins, Curtis
Summary: "In this stunning debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence. In Curtis Dawkins's first short story collection, he offers a window into prison life through the eyes of his narrators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWHankins, James
Summary: "When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years ... but it's all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she's been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she might find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANDawkins, Richard
Summary: The author of "The God delusion" addresses key scientific questions previously explained by rich mythologies, from the evolution of the first humans and the life cycle of stars to the principles of a rainbow and the origins of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 501 DAWSummary: Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Glory 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GLOHankins, James
Summary: "Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 HANHowkins, Heidi.
Summary: The tales of a single mother who has climbed K2, just a little lower than Everest, but "steeper, tougher, and deadlier."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Press/National Geographic 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HAWHaskins, Lori.
Summary: A latest early reader tale starring the whimsical Flat Stanley finds him trying out for the baseball team and outwitting the best players until the fairness of his "flat-vantage" is called into question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE HOUDawkins, Richard
Summary: Famous for his radical new vision of Darwinism, Richard Dawkins paints a colorful, richly textured canvas of his early life from innocent child to charismatic world-famous scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAWKINS, RICHARD DAWDawkins, Richard
Summary: How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 DAWDawkins, Richard
Summary: A preeminent scientist asserts the irrationallity of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society from the Crusades to 9/11. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 DAWDawkins, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 575 DAWCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "Lucy Campion, a ladies' maid turned printer's apprentice in 17th-century London, is crossing Holborn Bridge over the most vile portion of the River Fleet one morning when she encounters a distraught young woman, barely able to speak and clad only in a blood-spattered nightdress. The woman has no memory of who she is or what's happened to her, and the townspeople believe she's possessed. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CALWoelfle-Erskine, Cleo.
Contents: A choose-your-own-adventure rain garden planning guide -- Designing your rain garden -- Building your rain garden -- Planting your rain garden -- Maintaining your rain garden -- Your rain garden as part of an integrative design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012