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Summary: Brief text and black-and-white photographs introduce the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the fourth largest country in South America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1970
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Summary: A biography of John Smith including his life before he voyaged to Virginia, but with special emphasis on his exploits in North America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watts 1976
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH KURJacobs, William Jay.
Summary: A biography of the French explorer who was the founder of Quebec and the "Father of New France."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watts 1974
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CHAMPLAIN JACSummary: In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIGWinter, Paul.
Contents: Bells and horns ; Interview ; Port au Prince suite invocation to Dambala-prayer-Papa Zimbi ; Commentary by Paul Winter ; Casa camara ; Thumper (incomplete, fades before end) (Paul Winter Sextet) -- Outra vez ; Interview (Sete) ; Tango el bongo ; Tour de force ; Interview (Guaraldi) ; Star song ; Mambossa (incomplete, fades before end) (Bola Sete and the Vince Guaraldi Trio).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Jazz 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WinteHill, Pamela Smith.
Summary: "[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: South Dakota State Historical Society Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDER, LAURA INGALLS HILSummary: The hapless Roger Rabbit is framed for the murder of Marvin Acme, who was photographed "playing patticake" with Roger's wife Jessica. The mixed live and animated action takes place in Hollywood and next-door "Toontown," where humans and "Toons" co-exist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Pictures 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "After David Dunn emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor-- and without a single scratch on him-- he meets a mysterious stranger who believes comic book heroes walk the earth. A haunting stranger whose obsession with David will change David's life forever."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2001
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER UNBGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the tongue works to help us taste. Describes how nerves in the tongue send messages to the brain to tell us what we taste"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.87 GANGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the nose works to help us smell. Describes how nerves in the nose send messages to the brain to tell us what we smell"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 GANPlatt, Christine
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.026 PLAGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the eyes work to help us see. Describes how the parts of the eye take in light and how the nerves in the eye send messages to the brain to tell us what we see"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.84 GANSummary: Biography: Paul Revere: The Midnight Rider. As a leader of the Sons of Liberty, he risked death as a courier and spy and helped organize the Boston Tea Party. Biography: Benedict Arnold: Triumph and Treason. Explores the true story behind the vilified figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMEEliot, Marc.
Summary: One of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and '70s with classics like The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt, Steve McQueen is renowned as one of the most exciting and iconic actors to ever come out of Hollywood. Filled with original research, new interviews, and rare photos, this definitive biography of "the King of Cool" includes intimate details of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MCQUEEN, STEVE ELIKlein, Edward
Summary: She was perhaps the most famous, most scrutinized, most talked about woman of our century. From the moment Jacqueline Kennedy stepped into the White House, she inspired a generation of Americans and changed the face of a nation. But underneath the glitter and the hype, just who was Jackie? Now, in this carefully detailed chronicle, Edward Klein, the former editor in chief of The New York Times...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LEMMON, JACK LEMRickles, Don.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RICKLES, DON RICRussell, Jan Jarboe
Summary: A biography of LBJ's wife and a centering force in his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JOHNSON, LADY BIRD RUSSteinbach, Alice.
Summary: Eight years ago Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun, decided to take a break from her life. She took a leave from job, friends, and family for a European journey of self-discovery, and her first book, Withourt Reservations, was the result. But once Steinbach had opened the door to a new way of living, she found herself unwilling to return to the old...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STEINBACH, ALICE STEAuchincloss, Louis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 O'DONNELL, ROSIE ODOPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: This title introduces readers to Harriet Tubman and how she became a shero to free as many slaves as possible through the Underground Railroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 973.71 PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLASherr, Lynn
Summary: The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite. This is a rich portrait of a fascinating woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America. Warm and admiring but unsparing, it makes this extraordinarily talented and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RIDE, SALLY SHEHamill, Dorothy.
Summary: The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy faced a painful inner struggle--though she did not know about the depression that ran in her family until much later in life. Weeks and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007