Moser, Barry
Summary: "Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MOSER, BARRY MOSLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: An illustrated biography of young Samuel Clemens, who grew up to be the writer known as Mark Twain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TWAIN LASWood, Douglas
Summary: At the height of World War II, only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill began an extraordinary visit, during which they made plans that would lead to the success of the Allied powers as well as to a continuing peace after the war ended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5322 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J940.53 WOOIrving, Washington
Summary: In the first of these two tales set in the Catskill Mountains, a man sleeps for twenty years and wakens to a much-changed world; in the second, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986
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Place a hold to request this item.MacGill-Callahan, Sheila.
Summary: A turtle carved in rock on a bluff over the Hudson River by Indians long ago watches with sadness the changes man brings over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACGDoyen, Denise.
Summary: A cautionary tale for mice written in nonsense verse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE DOYMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Collects poems from the perspective of various cats who love, stalk, and sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 MACMaclean, Norman
Summary: From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A River Runs Through It has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACOates, Joyce Carol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATPalatini, Margie.
Summary: When Chucky Ducky feels the earth beneath him grumble and rumble, he runs to alert the other barnyard animals to the coming earthquake, but just as a wily weasel is about to take advantage of their fears, the true source is revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALPalatini, Margie.
Summary: Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALWinters, Kay.
Summary: Individual craftsmen, artists, and laborers describe the work that they do in Egypt during the time of the Old Kingdom, and the historical note places them in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 WINKipling, Rudyard
Summary: A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That Stamped." For more than 100 years, these brilliant, delightful tales by Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling have entertained young and old alike. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/Books of Wonder 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIPKumin, Maxine
Summary: Harry the Horse excels at calming skittish equines in Adams & Son's show-horse barn, but he faces a different challenge when mischievous six-year-old Algernon Adams the Third arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUMPalatini, Margie.
Summary: Three billy goats, unable to cross a bridge because they cannot pay the toll, form a car pool with The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack of beanstalk fame to get past the rude Troll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALParks, Van Dyke.
Summary: A retelling of seven folktales featuring Brer Rabbit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PARJohnston, Tony
Summary: A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Johnston 2002Parks, Van Dyke.
Summary: A retelling of five folktales in which crafty Brer Rabbit tries to outsmart all the other creatures in the animal community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PARPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug," "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books of Wonder 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POERylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Text and illustrations explore the countryside and people of Appalachia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO