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Action and adventure television programs Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Fiction television programs JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Music Manuscripts Fiction Measurement Musical instruments Fiction Television crime shows Television series Volume (Cubic content) MeasurementPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEADe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TONBlake, William
Summary: This single volume contains all of Blake's illuminated books, reproduced from the best available originals. It is published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Tate Gallery in the autumn of 2000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson in association with the William Blake Trust 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 BLABrown, Dan
Summary: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gustav Lübbe Verlag 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.3 FIC BROAndrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUISummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILBishop, Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 BISPearl, Matthew.
Summary: As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAWalsh, Dan
Summary: "When aspiring writer Michael Warner inherits his grandfather's venerable Charleston estate, he settles in to write his first novel. But within the confines of the stately home, he discovers an unpublished manuscript that his grandfather, a literary giant whose novels sold in the millions, had kept hidden from everyone -- but clearly intended Michael to find. As he delves deeper into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALMang, Veronica
Summary: "Peggy, Rita, and Dot are practicing for the upcoming band concert. But when the school's instruments start to disappear one by one, their big performance is in jeopardy. With the help of some secret codes and the most enigmatic women in history who worked as spies, with the girls be able to solve the mystery and face the music?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: "While Mina is growing up in Iran, the center of her world is her grandmother. Whether visiting friends next door, going to the mosque for midnight prayers during Ramadan, or taking an imaginary trip around the planets, Mina and her grandma are never far apart. At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Mina Javaherbin's words make up a love letter of the rarest sort: the kind that shares a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAVRedfield, James.
Summary: The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 DEHRyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYASimpson, Dana
Summary: "Phoebe Howell and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, are headed to music camp for the summer, where they form a punk rock group with fellow campers Sue and Stevie. Marigold also discovers a portal to a parallel dimension where she and Phoebe come face-to-face with the dark and sinister versions of themselves. Throughout their magical and musical adventures, the best friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSBaer, T. H.
Summary: Volume is the amount of space a liquid takes up in a container. This engaging book takes a look at how to measure volume and why its useful. Whether using the displacement method or simple containers marked with measurements, there are many different ways to measure liquids. Readers will learn to measure volume in both U.S. and International measurements to further their learning and ensure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 516.1 BAECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Number BaerCadillac County Genealogical Society
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.5774 WEXSummary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LEVDarnielle, John.
Summary: John Darnielle describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patiently, and lovingly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 DARSaaf, Donald
Summary: "Aardvarks play accordions Butterflies strum banjos Chimpanzees crash cymbals Preschoolers can learn their ABCs with the fresh, alliterative text and the charming illustrations of animal friends playing music with instruments from around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015