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Banville, John Homes and haunts Ireland Dublin Dublin (Ireland) Description and travel Homes Komodo dragon Lion Manners and customs Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel Gordon 1857-1939 Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon 1847-1934 National parks and reserves United States ParapsychologyHazan, Éric
Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZHunt, Samantha
Summary: "A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 130 HUNAalto, Kathryn
Summary: Explores the inspiration for A.A. Milne's fictional Hundred Acre Wood, South-East England's Ashdown Forest, and how it influenced the author's famous works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2015
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Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINHolm, Tom
Summary: "The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes--a Native American icon and World War 2 legend who spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYES, IRA HOLNardo, Don
Summary: Describes the events in Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," from the causes of the Trojan War to the legendary Greek and Trojan characters, the end of the war, and Odysseus's harrowing journey home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2012
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Summary: The author, born and raised in India and an acclaimed New York City restaurateur and chef, tells the story of moving to the country to raise goats, alpacas, ducks, geese, and chicken on 67 acres. Accompanied by more than 80 recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59747 SARWheeler, Sara
Summary: A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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Summary: "In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century. The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 DE CNoël Hume, Ivor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5 NOELassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASNicolson, Adam
Summary: June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 NICLevy, Janey
Summary: Lions and Komodo dragons are both fierce carnivores, but pitted against each other, which would come out on top? The answer to that is up to the reader of this high-interest volume to decide. They'll be presented with loads of facts to help them choose which animal they think would win in a fight. This imaginative and informative book reinforces important elementary science concepts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.75 LEVSivertson, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Folk Museum 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.4997 SIV1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4997 SIV
Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.
Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 KAPMiles, Kathryn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 MILBanville, John
Summary: "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.18 BANWelfare, Simon
Summary: "A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who exhausted their vast fortune buying homes around the globe where they entertained the rich and famous while also campaigning for the poor and disadvantaged. As the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, John and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.1081 WELBrum, Eliane
Summary: In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. In community with the human and more-than-human world of the Amazon, Brum seeks to “reforest” herself while building relationships with forest peoples who carry both the scars and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.98115 BRUEby, Margaret
Summary: "A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. As the writer Elif Batuman did for Russian literature in The Possessed, Margaret Eby does for Southern literature in this charming book of literary exploration. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Barry Hannah) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 EBYStorey, Kate
Summary: Drawing from conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, and household and security staff, this multigenerational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod provides a sweeping history of an American dynasty that has left an indelible mark on the nation's politics and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STOGayford, Martin
Summary: From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 GAYChew, Elizabeth V.
Summary: Depicts a day with Thomas Jefferson as he and his grandson visit the vast plantation of Monticello, providing information about the gadgets and household items he reinterpreted and invented.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N Abrams Inc 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 JEFFederspiel, Michael R.
Summary: "Up north" during Hemingway's time, 1899-1921 --The Hemingway family in Michigan --Ernest's Michigan: fact and fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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