Summary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: Ted heads to Africa in search of exhibits that will bolster the popularity of his friend's natural history museum, where he is befriended by George, a very curious monkey that leads Ted on a never-ending series of adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ted, the explorer with a large yellow hat, is good friends with Bloomsberry. Bloomsberry runs a natural history museum. His greedy son, Bloomsberry Junior, wants to tear down his dad's museum and put a parking garage in its place, but the elder Bloomsberry is convinced that a spectacular new exhibit could save the museum from the wrecking ball. Ted heads to Africa on an expedition to find some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CURO'Callaghan, Billy
Summary: A portrait of life in Ireland follows sixteen-year-old Nancy Martin, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, as she embarks on an affair with a handsome gardener, setting off a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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Summary: "Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm Tóibín, evokes the long love affair between a man and a woman, each married to another, who meet every month in a decaying hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn. These beautiful, carefully-rationed days have long sustained Michael and Caitlin's love, and have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCAMagnusson, Margareta
Summary: Shows readers how to prepare for and understand the aging process, and the joys and sorrows it can bring, with the ultimate message that people should all be less afraid of the idea of death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging MagnussonSummary: Early one morning in his modern New York apartment, Jimmy O'Leary is told of the death of his mother, Catherine. The news spirits him back to the Ireland of his childhood in the 50's; an Ireland of scholars and sinners and fumbling sexual encounters, an unholy alliance of religion and politics, where old feuds die hard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2001
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Summary: In this neo-noir set in the mountainous Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, hard-bitten inspector Akyl Borubaev mourns the recent death of his beloved wife--the only humanizing force in his otherwise bleak life as a homicide detective in Bishkek. As he struggles to face his personal pain, Borubaev is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman whose horribly mutilated body is found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALLittle, Margaree
Summary: Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LITCallaghan, Louise
Summary: "After two and a half years of ISIS occupation, and months of fighting between the militants and government forces, the Mosul Zoo was one of the few outdoor attractions still standing in Iraq's second city, its inhabitants kept alive by Abu Laith, a square-set 50-something mechanic and passionate animal lover. As the animals began to starve under the siege by advancing Iraqi army forces, Abu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAITH, ABU CALO'Callaghan, Timothy J.
Summary: A chronicle of the development of Ford aviation, based upon the discovery of a Flivver airplane built in 1945 as well as the discovery of the LaCroix papers which documents Ford Motor Company's efforts in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Proctor Publications, LLC. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 OCAMagnusson, Margareta
Summary: In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." Margareta instructs readers to embrace minimalism, and suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects)....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.5 MAGCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home MagnussonCallaghan, Cindy
Summary: Half-sisters Stella and Josie love spending summers together at the beach, but things are harder this year, especially when new business owners exploit the natural habitat, endangering marine life and people, as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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Summary: Compilation of eight previously published Curious George titles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYRey, Margret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXRuurs, Margriet
Summary: Using realistic paper-sculpture art, this book celebrates backyard animals and nature through the seasons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RuursFox, Margalit
Summary: "In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 FOXRuurs, Margriet.
Summary: Describes unusual mobile libraries found around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J027.4 RuuRey, Margret
Summary: "Enjoy learning to read with Curious George! The Curious about Phonics learn-to-read program can help your child master the basic phonic skills that are the building blocks for a lifetime"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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Summary: In Margret and H.A. Rey's Pretzel, we met the world's longest dachshund and his wife, Greta. This book picks up where Pretzel left off, after the birth of their five adorable puppies. In collected comic strips, the Reys explore the drama and comedy of life as a family of seven, and what it means to have a daddy who's sometimes as silly as he is long!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYRey, Margret.
Summary: A little monkey needs to be rescued when he tries to fly a kite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1993
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Summary: A curious monkey goes to the hospital after swallowing a piece of jigsaw puzzle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1966
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Summary: An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2013