King, Wayne
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist Inc. 1938
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: The Poor Clares of Arundel are 23 women living in a modest convent in the Sussex countryside. The original isolators share music that brings peace and reflection to everyday lives. Going back to the very roots of mindfulness, this album offers a window of escape from the stresses of the modern world. Unaccompanied plainchant married with subtle production creates relaxing, meditative music...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Presents a history of the discovery and exploration of hydrothermal vents and undersea volcanoes, and tells how these scientific expeditions help researchers understand marine ecology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.21 MALCruz, Kleaver
Summary: "A beautiful love letter to Black joy, as a source of self-preservation and survival as well as a form of resistance"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 CRURucker, Michael
Summary: "The more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes. The Fun Habit shows readers that fun, unlike happiness, is an action you can take almost anywhere, anytime. Fun is connected to behavior and habits rather than goals, which means it's possible to get more fun into your life with intention. Whether you're a frustrated happiness-seeker looking for a new approach, a success-oriented hustler...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: "Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight! The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting out as a vaudeville act, they soon transitioned into movies, becoming a worldwide sensation in feature films and shorts. Never the critics' darlings, audiences loved them for their mastery of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 POLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 POLZuchora-Walske, Christine.
Summary: An imaginary journey to Venus provides facts about the planet's gravity, year, days, atmosphere, temperature, and surface, and suggests some of the questions scientists would want to answer if it really were possible to travel there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2012
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 523 ZUCVan Oosbree, Ruthie
Summary: "Would you like to add more joy to the world? Get crafting! Create a joke jar to help people when they need a laugh. Craft a set of bamboo chimes to make cheerful music. Stitch a cute pocket "hug" to remind a loved one you care. These fun crafts will help you spark joy in your home, at school, in your community, and beyond"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 745.5083 VANRoberts, Robin
Summary: "Drawing on advice and knowledge she gleaned from conversations with loved ones, spiritual practices, and life experiences, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul and invites readers to do the same. With a deeply personal touch, she explains that just like any skill, optimism requires practice and demonstrates how we can shift our mindsets and give ourselves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ROBButtafuoco, Mary Jo.
Summary: Mary Jo Buttafuoco's life as a suburban wife and mother in sleepy Massapequa, New York, ended in May 1992, when she was shot in the head on her own front porch. The 'Long Island Lolita' saga sparked a media frenzy. As the years passed and Mary Jo steadfastly stood by her man while Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher continued to make headlines, one question lingered in the minds of women everywhere:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTTAFUOCO, MARY JO BUTGay, Ross
Summary: "A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: Accompany scientists as they embark on a recent, specific deepwater exploration that illuminates new knowledge about our oceans and enables young readers to observe the processes involved in marine exploration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.2 HAGNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUSummary: Classic Strategy Games Set: A magical games line inspired by the oldest toy store in the United States. Every piece has been specially designed with the FAO Schwarz seal of approval and an elegant touch of the FAO Schwarz brand. With this beautiful wood game collection, you can enjoy three classic games in one convenient package. Includes Chess; the king of all board game, Checkers; a simple...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Spin Master 2020
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Summary: A history of the fight for reproductive rights in the United States. Tracing the path to the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade and the continuing battle for women's rights, Blumenthal examines the root causes of the current debate around abortion and repercussions that have affected generations of American women. This book intends to facilitate difficult discussions and awareness of a topic that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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Summary: How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCIJones, John Isaac
Summary: "John Isaac Jones' new biographical novel of Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulence of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating detail."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2020
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Summary: "Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote. His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBOtt, Chris.
Summary: Joy Division's career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: over a period of several months, Joy Division transformed themselves from run-of-the-mill punk wannabes into the creators of one of the most atmospheric, disturbing, and influential debut albums ever recorded. Chris Ott carefully picks apart fact from fiction to show how Unknown Pleasures came into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region's native peoples. For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold -- the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and the decades that followed, as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PLYHarris, Charlaine
Summary: Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town, four kids vanish from the school soccer field in an afternoon. Aurora's fifteen year old brother Phillip is one of them. While the local police and sheriff's department comb the county for the missing kids and interview everyone even remotely involved, Aurora and her new husband, true crime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARFig, Joe
Summary: Twenty-four painters, video, mixed- media artists, sculptors, photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools, techniques, quotidian habits, strategies for getting work done: music they listen to; hours they keep; relationships with gallerists, curators, friends, family, fellow artists that sustain them outside the studio.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.2 FIGHarjo, Joy
Summary: "Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her 'poet-warrior' road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022