Summary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: A beautiful adaptation of the classic novel. Renowned graphic novel artist, Edith, has created an enchanting version of the classic Tom's Midnight Garden. This is a new and special way to read and share one of the best-loved and most enduring children's stories of all time. A story with a special place in the hearts of grandparents, parents, and children everywhere, this wonderful graphic novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 EDIMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 MUISmith, Joanne Huist.
Summary: "For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love. After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children--especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2 SMICopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 394.2663 SMISummary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GRENewman, Melissa
Summary: An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 920 NEWSummary: See how the Germanic tribes lived, fought and worshipped their gods. Intricate 3D animation shows how they built their settlements, buried their kings, vanquished their enemies. Roman cities such as the ancient Cologne, home of the Romanophile Germans, and the Roman limes, the border to free Germania, are also reconstructed through computer graphics and full-cast reenactments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GERSummary: "In this compendium of 5-minute really true stories about bedtime, you can go on a journey of wonder and learning to find out the answers to all these questions, and many more! Travel to Ancient Egypt to explore the beds of Tutankhamun, jet off into space to see how astronauts get ready for bed, or even plunge underwater to learn how hibernating turtles breathe through their bottoms! There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Film contains conversations between two old friends as they wander along paths and trails of central California coast. Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison debate the pros and cons of everything from Google to Zen Kōans. Includes archival materials and commentaries from Snyder's literary contemporaries, friends, and intimates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: San Simeon Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PRASummary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEADehaene, Stanislas.
Summary: In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418.4019 DEHGelletly, LeeAnne.
Summary: Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and major cities of Somalia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 967.73 GELMarshall, Jeannie.
Summary: "A lively story about food, family and identity that will make even the most inexperienced among us want to start chopping and cooking. When journalist Jeannie Marshall moved to Rome with her husband, she immersed herself in Italy's famous culinary traditions. But when the couple's son was born a few years later, Marshall began to see how Italy's great food culture was eroding, especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 MARSummary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREJohnston, Johanna.
Summary: Presents portraits of fourteen American women who played important roles in American history, including Emma Willard, Abigail Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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Summary: Describes, in text and illustrations, the many different modes of transportation children all over the world use to get to school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BAEHolden, Edith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLDEN, EDITH HOLKunhardt, Edith.
Summary: A simple retelling of the fateful days in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and the people in the ancient town of Pompeii perished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937.7 KUNCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KUNGrimaldi, Judith D.
Summary: Many people discover too late that they need some essential legal documents to deal with common health and end of life issues. Failing to prepare these documents ahead of time can create major legal headaches that often require expensive trips to court to resolve. Written by expert attorneys, “5@55” is a slim, easy-to-read guide to the five most important legal documents you should have by age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Driver Books 2015
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Summary: With her sure, loving, gardener's touch, Mrs. Spitzer nurtures the students in her classroom each year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Pattou 2001Wharton, Edith.
Summary: The tragic story of a beautiful young woman caught up in the shallow and corrupt world of New York society at the turn of the century, where wealth and social status are everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fine Creative Media 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wharton 2004Dehaene, Stanislas
Summary: "In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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Summary: "Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides--after fourteen years of silence--to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. "It's the least I can do," he says....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANASCO, JEANNIE VANBlanton, DeAnne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002