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Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) Fiction Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction Contemporary Christian musicians Danielson Famile (Musical group) Fadiman, Clifton 1904-1999 Families Gospel musicians Harkness, Deborah E 1965- Orphans Juvenile fiction United StatesTannen, Deborah
Summary: "A New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking bookabout women and men, and praised by Oliver Sacks as having "a novelist's ear for the way people speak," Deborah Tannen was a little girl who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANNEN, ELI SAMUEL TANStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STUFellows, Deborah Wyatt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 FEL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 917.749 FEL
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 FELCoggeshall, Robert Walden
Summary: Given by the John Person Chapter, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprint Co. 1988
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 COGGESHALL CoggeshallBoivin, Lisa
Summary: "When the author learns of the death of her brother overseas, she embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together, she follows Dene teachings to find comfort and strength. The lyrical art and story leave readers with a universal message of hope and love."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155.9 BOIEllis, Bella
Summary: Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLBrowning, Diane
Summary: "In 1820, the Brontë family traveled to their new home on the edge of Haworth Moor. There, the Brontë sisters and their brother were given the freedom to explore and expand their imaginative minds, providing the inspiration needed to create literary masterpieces that would be enjoyed for generations to come. In The Brontës of Haworth Moor: How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People BronteThompson, Laura
Summary: "The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THOWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "The Aldens are visiting Port Elizabeth when a bad storm rolls in, knocking out the power--and leaving behind a mystery! Can the powered-down Aldens figure out what's going on?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARThiel, J. Homer
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Homer Thiel 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 THISpiro, Ruth
Summary: "Told through a series of poetic letters, this charming celebration of family, plants and boundless love follows a little girl who receives her very own plant baby from her aunt, a gift that helps her bloom and grow, just as the love for her aunt blossoms as well"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SPICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPIGinsberg, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 GINTurner, Dawn
Summary: "The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their "Thing Finder box," and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TURHarkness, Deborah E.
Summary: A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Time A Discovery of Witches In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich sources of inspiration behind her bewitching novels. She draws together synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and even the science behind creatures, magic, and alchemy--all with her signature historian's touch. Bursting with fascinating facts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARO'Leary, Sara
Summary: "A charming picture book about the Brontë siblings as children creating their own adventures,"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Book Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 O'LECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OLESummary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOLCopaken, Deborah
Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPAKEN, DEBORAH COPSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESOomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOMRowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to confront demons from her past.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANGouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Fadiman, Anne
Summary: "A memoir exploring the author's father's love of wine" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017