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Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Moore, J. Staunton (Josiah Staunton)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 MooreLondon, Martha
Summary: "At the border of Nepal and Tibet, climbers try to reach the highest point above sea level. Mount Everest looks at when and how this mountain formed and what the future looks like for the popular climbing peak."--Amazon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Core, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.202 LONSummary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DABair, Diane
Summary: Whether you want to visit Cape Cod's beaches, eat lobster in Maine, or ski in Vermont, the local Fodor's travel experts in New England are here to help! Fodor's New England guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 NEWWard, Logan.
Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home WardWard, Logan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WAREgan, Timothy.
Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEAGHER EGAWayland-Smith, Ellen.
Summary: "Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7 WAYKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: O'Reilly revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 973 OREKalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Summary: Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.7 KALHanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Priv. Print. [J.J. Little & Co.] 1900
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977 HannaWright, F. Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Line Publications 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 WrighHanson, George A.
Summary: Genealogy records for Kent County, Maryland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Co. 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 HANCooper, Candy J.
Summary: "Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 364.1 COOKurkjian, Stephen A.
Summary: "In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the Boston criminal underworld. It took years before the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 KURSummary: The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2006
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Summary: In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 SHOPryor, Shawn
Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022