Swanson, Wendy Sue
Summary: Presents evidence-based advice on raising children, enhancing a collection of the author's blog posts with statistics, charts, and summaries to discuss four themes--prevention, social-emotional support, immunizations, and work-life balance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 SWASummary: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR SUSContents: Disc one : Do you believe / Melanie -- Blessed are /Joan Baez -- Light flight / Pentangle -- Foolish season / Dana Gillespie - Someone to talk my troubles to -- Auntie aviator / John & Beverley Martyn -- Flying away / Serpent Power -- It could have been better / Joan Armatrading -- Morning Morgantown / Jude -- If not by fire / Mandy More -- Upstairs by a Chinese lamp / Laura Nyro -- I thought I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MILGendry-Kim, Keum Suk
Summary: "Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2019
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Summary: "The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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Summary: Illustrations and simple text introduce children to the various parts of the Catholic Mass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paulist Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 248 STAWatson, Wendy.
Summary: A family gets ready for Halloween, preparing costumes, making goodies for the school party, and carving jack-o'lanterns. Halloween jokes and rhymes are interspersed throughout the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WATGendry-Kim, Keum Suk
Summary: "Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSWatson, Wendy.
Summary: Bunnies scamper, scurry, splash, zip, and snuggle as they get ready for bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2011
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Summary: A story in which a family prepares for and enjoys Easter, combined with both traditional and literary rhymes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE WATWatson, Sue
Summary: During her first week at art college, Rosie Jackson, almost seventeen, locks eyes with the charismatic Peter from across the room of their nude figure drawing class, and the course of her life is changed forever. Now, on the cusp of sixty-five and recently widowed, Rosie is slowly coming to terms with a new future. And after a chance encounter with Peter forty-seven years later, she is brought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATReady, Dee.
Summary: Discusses the situations and events that led to the Boston Massacre, the precursor to the American Revolutionary War, including information on the colonies' relationship with Britain and the effects of the French and Indian War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.4 REAReady, Dee.
Summary: Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of doctors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 610.69 REAReady, Dee.
Summary: Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of farmers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 630 REASwanson, Jennifer
Summary: Provides a brief history of zoology and profiles three women who are working in the field today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 SWAReady, Dee.
Summary: Explains how the British were outsmarted by George Washington and his troops near the city of Yorktown and how that battle turned the tide of the Revolutionary War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 REAReady, Dee.
Summary: Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of fire fighters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 628.9 REAHenry, Sue
Summary: With her cabin a pile of ashes and her life in pieces, champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold has gratefully accepted a friend's proposal that she drive his motor home up from Idaho, along the Alaska Highway--a breathtaking, two thousand-mile-long route winding past hot springs, glaciers, and ice-blue lakes. But the idyllic trip takes a dark turn when a teenage hitchhiker brings terror aboard....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENHenry, Sue
Summary: Sleuth Jessie Arnold, a dog sledder, flees to a remote island of Alaska to avoid a stalker who has attacked her dogs. State trooper Alex Jensen tries to find him before the stalker finds her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HENSummary: Produced with the purpose of alleviating the stigma associated with dyslexia, The big picture features the testimony of individuals from various backgrounds diagnosed with dyslexia (including investment advisor Charles Schwab and billionaire Richard Branson) describing how they learned to live with and overcome their disability. Medical experts explain the neurological causes of the condition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIG1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 616.8 BIG
Henry, Sue
Summary: At loose ends when a knee injury sidelines her for the dogsled racing season, Jessie Arnold is delighted to accept an invitation to help old friends Laurie and Jim restore an old lighthouse that they are turning into a bed-and-breakfast. In Alaska, though, few journeys are simple; and as Jessie makes her way to Five Finger Island via several short-haul flights, she encounters a young woman...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HENHenry, Sue
Summary: After months of recuperating from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold is eager to begin training for this year's Iditarod. With the loving care of Alaska state trooper Alex Jensen, her convalescence wasn't as painful as it could have been, but she and her dogs have a lot of work to do if they're going to qualify for the race. Jessie's first practice run goes smoothly until her sled hits a bump along...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HENHenry, Sue
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2005