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Summary: "The secret to the best barbecue from the man who barbecues the best: Keep it simple! In the world of competitive barbecue, nobody's won more prize money, more trophies, or more adulation than Myron Mixon. And he comes by it honestly: From the time he was old enough to stoke a pit, Mixon learned the art of barbecue at his father's side. He grew up to expand his parent's sauce business, Jack's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 MIXSummary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PGMyron, Vicki
Summary: "In the tradition of Marley: A Dog Like No Other, this is the story of a cat who was more than a pet, and the amazing effect he had on the people around him. This middle-grade adaptation of the Grand Central bestseller Dewey features an 8-page photo insert, including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew! Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.8 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.8 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYRUhlberg, Myron.
Summary: By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008