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Jenkins, Emily

Summary: Step into a wintry forest where seven iconic fairy tales unfold, retold with keen insight and touches of humor. There once was a frozen forest so cold, you could feel it through the soles of your boots. It was a strange place where some kisses broke enchantments and others began them. Many said witches lived there -- some with cold hearts, others with hot ovens and ugly appetites -- and also...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JEN

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JEN

Jenkins, Emily

Summary: Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2008

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Jenkins, Emily.

Summary: Dumpling, a lonely dog with no sense of smell, moves with his family to the country and makes a new friend who takes some getting used to.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JEN

Summary: The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIN

Summary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WES

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 BOO

Jerkins, Morgan

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: An acclaimed cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 JER

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Jerkins

Perrine, Stephen.

Summary: Presents a program that works with a reader's body to build lean muscle and burn stubborn belly fat -- in just 27 days! This title includes: the women's health fast-track tone up plan; a guide to the female body in your 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond; and, the 250 best foods for women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 PER

Perring, Stefania.

Summary: Tells of the ruins of ancient civilizations and with the use of overlays shows these ruins in their prime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Pub. Co. 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 PER

Peraino, Kevin

Summary: A study of the sixteenth president's evolution as a foreign policy leader explores his role in America's rise to a world power, analyzing six distinct episodes that defined his foreign policy stance and enabled him to maintain a careful balance during the war years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM PER

Perrine, Doug.

Contents: Introduction : a first glimpse -- ch. 1. Origins and ancestors -- ch. 2. Between the plates -- ch. 3. Mating behavior and reproduction -- ch. 4. The lost decade -- ch. 5. Growing up -- ch. 6. The incredible journey -- ch. 7. Troubled times -- ch. 8. Families and species -- ch. 9. Watching sea turtles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.928 PER

Purkiss, Diane

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.062 PUR

Perkins, Christopher

Summary: The Underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark elf Gromph Baenre, Archmage of Menzoberranzan, casts a foul spell meant to ignite a magical energy that suffuses the Underdark and tears open portals to the demonic Abyss. What steps through surprises even...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards Of The Coast 2015

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Perkins, Jennifer

Summary: Watch kids' eyes light up as they roll up their sleeves and transform ordinary items. Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids shows tweens how to take objects destined for the recycling bin and breathe new life into them to make room decor, organizers, school supplies, and so much more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.58 PRE

Merkin, Daphne.

Summary: "A collection of essays on everything from handbags to John Updike, lip gloss to Michael Jackson, and everything in between"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MER

Parkin, Simon

Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PAR

Perino, Dana

Summary: "...a no-nonsense how-to guide to life for young women looking to reframe their thinking, to believe in themselves, to take risks, to understand their power, and to feel better overall through finding serenity and taking action."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.242 PER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.242 PER

Berkin, Carol.

Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BER

Perrine, Stephen

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "The first-ever weight-loss plan specifically designed to stop-and reverse-age-related weight gain and muscle loss, while shrinking your belly, extending your life, and creating your healthiest self at mid-life and beyond"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.2 PER

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 PER

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nut Perrine

Berkin, Carol.

Summary: We know and love the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. We forget, though, that the Articles of Confederation and our first attempts at self-government were disasters; the post-revolutionary Confederation slipped quickly into factional bickering and economic crisis. In 1787, a group of lawyers and politicians, some famous and others...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.318 BER

Merkin, Daphne

Summary: "Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This Close to Happy--Merkin's rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression--captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MERKIN, DAPHNE MER

Perkins, Al.

Summary: Easy-to-read rhyming text describes what can be done on a drum with hand, fingers, and thumb.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1969

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Perkins, John

Summary: John Perkins' job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States -- from Indonesia to Panama -- to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corportations, such as Halliburton.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.042 PER

Perkins, Kendrick

Summary: "The Education of Kendrick Perkins is an intimate memoir about race, fatherhood, and basketball, from former NBA player and outspoken cultural critic, Kendrick "Perk" Perkins. At age eighteen, Kendrick Perkins left his grandparents' run-down yellow house in Beaumont, Texas for the last time. Sure, he'd traveled the country for camps and tournaments. He'd banged and bruised with the biggest and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, KENDRICK PER

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