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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Aging Physiological aspects Aging Psychological aspects Cartoons and comics Fantasy Faulkner, William 1897-1962 Memory in old age Questions and answers Women Crimes against Developing countries Case studies Women Developing countries Social conditions Case studiesSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: "An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3 PARSummary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERPark, Benjamin E.
Summary: "The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each of the book's twenty-four brief chapters covers a single bird and a single hour. At 1:00 in the night, we meet a nearly-blind kiwi, hunting with smell for earthworm prey. Later that morning, at 11:00, we float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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Summary: In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own later years. In "The Art and Science of Aging Well," Mark E....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 WILSummary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALEberhart, Mark E.
Summary: This book explores what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. When author Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosion--which prompted him to worry that when he cut into anything, he could unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.112 EBERollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: Draws on the recently opened archives of Ted Hughes to offer new insights into the iconic poet's psyche and literary achievements, in a portrait that includes previously unpublished papers and dozens of letters exchanged between Plath and Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLATH, SYLVIA ROLSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTRollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has fascinated readers nearly as much as the great novels, but Faulkner has remained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM ROLGary, N. E. (Norman E.)
Summary: Offers a guide to beekeeping that covers such topics as the history of bees and the current methods and techniques used by amateur beekeepers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BowTie Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 GARPickhardt, Carl E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 PICBlack, Mary E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.14 BLAHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Sunny HolmLark (COR)
Summary: [Product Description] 500 variations on the theme of the book. A list of the materials used in these playful, elegant, improbable, and affecting creations includes plastic, wax, cloth, brass, wood, leather, hemp, vintage buttons, prairie grass and pine needles, glass beads and seed pods, ceramics, and found objects. The entire collection is juried by the book artist, Steve Miller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 686 TOUPickhardt, Carl E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.65 PICMarz, Ron
Summary: When the first purple dragon, Malefor reappears Spyro, Hex, and Cynder struggle to prepare for the evil he unleashes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARReid, Mary E.
Summary: Questions and answers explore the world of New World monkeys, with an emphasis on howler monkeys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2000
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 599.8 WORReid, Mary E.
Summary: Questions and answers explore the world of birds of prey, with an emphasis on owls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.977 REIReid, Mary E.
Summary: Questions and answers explore the world of wild dogs, with an emphasis on wolves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2000
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 599.2 WORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.77 REICary, Mara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 CARMarz, Ron
Summary: The Skylander Trap Team must work together to conquer grueling tests, win outrageous challenges, and defeat the vile villains to receive champion status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARSummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011