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Summary: "When a pet dies, it can feel like you lost your best friend. What do you do? Whether you had a guinea pig, dog, cat, or fish, this story can help you through the tough times."--from cover, p. [4]
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 155.9 LOEMooney, Carla
Summary: "This book explores academic anxiety and how it affects people both mentally and physically, examining the causes and symptoms of academic anxiety as well as strategies to overcome it. Features include a glossary, online resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 373.18 MOOMiller, Marie-Therese
Summary: This book explores depression and how people diagnosed with the disorder manage it. It examines how depression affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available. Features include a glossary, web resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 616.85 MILShea, Therese
Summary: "Animals have a lot in common with people: they eat, sleep, and have babies. That's sometimes where the similarities end! Rabbits, for example, eat their own poop so they can digest even more nutrients than they did the first time around. Readers might find this and other facts gross, but they'll also love to repeat them! Full-color photographs and diagrams complement a fun design full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 SHEGagliardi, Sue
Summary: Explores how a castle's design helps it fulfill its purpose, and challenges readers to build their own cardboard castles. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, a supply list, Think About It critical thinking questions, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DiscoverRoo 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.54 GAGBryson, Bill.
Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BRYCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of World War I the perspective of soldiers fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 COOCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of the Civil War from the perspective of those fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 COOCooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of World War II from the perspective of those fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 COOAxelrod, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUSEpstein, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE EPSGaunt, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROShawn, Allen
Summary: Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People’s Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical music. In this fascinating new biography, the breadth of Bernstein’s musical composition is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNSTEIN, LEONARD SHAArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Presents a biography of Muhammad, focusing on the prophet's role in the creation of Islam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUHAMMAD ARMLeibovitz, Liel
Summary: Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four-occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, STAN LEIRosselli, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.1 ROSAlvarado, Rudolph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3 ALVBryson, Bill.
Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 822.33 BRYMacellari, Elisa
Summary: "Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first-century super-fame"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MACYoung Bear, Ray A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 YOUHaskell, Molly
Summary: A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPIELBERG, STEVEN HASRea, Amy C.
Summary: "Introduces young readers to the dangers of alcohol addiction and shows ways that users have found help. Learn about the physical and mental effects of alcohol abuse and its negative impact on lives."--Childsworld.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.292 REAWhite, Michael
Summary: This concise, informative biography explores : Tolkien's experiences as a young teacher, lecturer, and storyteller in Britain ; The founding of the Inklings, the group of intellectuals centered on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other Oxford University professors ; Tolkien's relationship with his publisher in releasing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and other books ; The continuing impact of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. WHIGrant, Michael
Summary: Courage, sacrifice, and fear have lead Rio, Frangie, and Rainy through front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, and their missions are not over. These soldiers and thousands of Allies must fight their deadliest battle yet—for their country and their lives—as they descend into the freezing water and onto the treacherous sands of Omaha Beach. It is June 6, 1944. D-Day has arrived. No longer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018