Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer.
Summary: After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn't like, guilty pleasures. On Rereading records the surprising, fascinating results of her personal experiment and raises a number of intriguing questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word SpacksGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIDAusten, Jane
Summary: "Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as 'A Lady.' Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIGoyer, Tricia
Summary: "The Grumble family tried not to complain but bills and laundry and sibling squabbles kept everyone rumbling. When Grandma Grateful comes for a visit, things change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOYGoyer, Tricia.
Summary: A young Amish woman, searching for truth and love amidst tradition, returns to her home state of Indiana after a season in Montana, hoping to understand where exactly her heart belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOYSummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRAGoyer, Tricia.
Summary: A young Amish woman recently moved from Indiana to Montana is torn between marrying a man from back home or the Englischer whose active faith is calling to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B&H Publishing Group 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOYGoyer, Tricia.
Summary: "On the night Marianna Sommers was born, a freak accident shattered her family. Even as she came into the world, her two sisters left it for heaven. She's spent her life making up for that loss, being to her family and their Indiana Amish community all that her sisters would have been. Her only dream: a simple life married to Aaron Zook, the one she's loved since childhood. Then her father says...
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOYGoyer, Tricia.
Summary: It is August 1944 and Paris is on the cusp of liberation. As the soldiers of the Third Reich flee the Allied advance, they ravage the country, stealing countless pieces of art. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring will stop at nothing to claim the most valuable one of all, the Mona Lisa, as a post-war bargaining chip to get him to South America. Can Swiss OSS agents Gabi Mueller and Eric Hofstadler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2012
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Various Artists
Contents: Who can it be now? (Men at Work) -- Twilight zone (Golden Earring) -- Talk talk (Talk Talk) -- Johnny, are you queer? (Josie Cotton) -- White girl (X) -- People who died (The Jim Carroll Band) -- Face to face (Code Blue) -- Wot (Captain Sensible) -- Numbers with wings (The Bongos) -- The Look of love (Part one) (ABC) -- Do you really want to hurt me (Culture Club) -- Never say never (Romeo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NEWSparkes, Ali
Summary: After accidentally drinking some of mad scientist Petty Pott's SWITCH potion while at school, twins Josh and Danny become grasshoppers and this time they may not change back without help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SPAMayer, Gina And Mercer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MayerMayer, Gina And Mercer
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MAYSparkes, Ali.
Summary: While seeking their lost dog, Piddle, twins Josh and Danny encounter their next-door neighbor, Petty Potts, a mad scientist whose SWITCH spray accidentally turns them into spiders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SPASparkes, Ali
Summary: When their sister, Jenny, is accidentally turned into a crane fly by Petty Potts' SWITCH spray, twins Josh and Danny must transform themselves, as well, and rescue her before she burns her legs off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SPAMazer, Anne.
Summary: Two fine writers put their heads together and came up with an equally fine guide to their craft for beginners. Avoiding traditional chapters, the coauthors address issues by turns in short personal takes. Mazer speaks to beginnings, for example, while Potter tackles endings; and both have diverting things to say about everything that happens in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.02 MAZSummary: The most wonderful time of the year: The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan's love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 10 MMazer, Anne.
Summary: A young boy finds a salamander and thinks of the many things he can do to make a perfect home for it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991