Layton, Bart
Summary: A young Frenchman convinces a Texas family that he is their teenage son who has been missing for three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPEditors, Bark.
Summary: A pot roast left unguarded. An open bedroom door. An ill-timed squat. Dogs seem to have impeccable timing. Yet how quickly calamity turns to comedy in the company of a dog, and the wrong moment turns out to be just the right one. In this delightful follow-up to Dog Is My Co-Pilot , which won the Best Book of the Year award from the Dog Writers Association of America, the editors of The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2007
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Rosenstock, Barb
Summary: "A picture book about the five largest lakes in North America - how they formed, the importance of these waters, and how they've become a national treasure"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 977 ROSBacharach, Burt.
Summary: One of the greatest songwriters of all time offers a frank and riveting account of his life and the stories behind the hits. Over the past six decades, Burt Bacharach's legendary songwriting has touched millions of devoted listeners all over the world. In Anyone Who Had a Heart , Bacharach steps out from behind the music to give an honest, engaging look at his life--from his work with Hal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Parton, Dolly
Summary: "For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 921 PARClayton, Meg Waite
Summary: Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure that transcends her Midwestern roots. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, Nanée joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACatton, Bruce.
Summary: First published in 1955, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton's classic account of the Civil War simultaneously captures the dramatic scope and intimate experience of that epic struggle in one brilliant volume. Covering events from the prelude of the conflict to the death of Lincoln, Catton blends a gripping narrative with deep, yet unassuming, scholarship to bring the war alive on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Catton, Bruce
Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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We have 5 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Lawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAWLawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAWLawson, Jenny
Summary: "In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015
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We have 4 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Barton, Byron.
Summary: Describes and pictures what happens from the time an airplane passenger arrives at an airport, and boards an airplane until the plane is in the air.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T.Y. Crowell Junior Books 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBaez, Jose.
Summary: Presumed Guilty exposes shocking, never-before revealed, exclusive information from the trial of the century and the verdict that shocked the nation. When Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008, the public spent the next three years following the investigation and the eventual trial of her mother, Casey Anthony. On July 5, 2011, the case that captured headlines...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Benbella Books 2012
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Davies, Nicola
Summary: Animals adapt to their surroundings for survival. Learn how they survive in conditions that humans never would. Are you ready for the competition? From the persevering emperor penguins of the South Pole to the brave bacteria inside bubbling volcanoes, from the hardy reptiles of the driest deserts to the squash-proof creatures of the deepest seabeds, animals have adapted to survive in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 DAVLarson, Erik.
Summary: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2011
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Larson, Gary.
Summary: Offers a compilation of selected cartoons from "Cows of Our Planet," "The Chickens Are Restless," and "The Curse of Madame C"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1995
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LARBang, Molly.
Summary: Explains how all life on the Earth depends, directly or indirectly, on light from the sun, and describes how all ocean life, from the tiniest plankton to great whales, including the creatures in the darkest depths, form a web that uses sunshine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.45 BANLarson, Erik
Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 LARLarson, Erik.
Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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We have 2 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Scanlon, Elizabeth Garton.
Summary: Follow a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night as they discover the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCABaig, Edward C.
Summary: The up-to-date guide to getting the most out of your iPad or iPad 2! With an elegantly thin form, front-and-rear-facing cameras, irresistible multitouch interface, and, now, with the awesome iOS 5 and iCloud, the iPad is one addictive device. This full-color guide helps you get to know your iPad so well you may never want to put it down! Mac experts and veteran For Dummies authors Edward Baig...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2011
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Larson, Elsie
Summary: On the décor blog A beautiful mess, Larson and Chapman have shown you how to paint, craft and decorate you way to a colorful space with distinct personality. Now their book is filled with new ideas and projects to help you make your own mark on your home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Potter Style 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 LARLarson, Gary
Summary: Collection of the syndicated cartoon panel "The Far Side."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 1989
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LARLarson, Gary.
Summary: This is a compilation of cartoons from three Far Side collections--Wildlife Preserves, Weiner Dog Art, and Unnatural Selections--featuring more than 20 full-color pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1993