Swiller, Josh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.94 SWIKilmer-Purcell, Josh
Summary: "Michael Perry meets David Sedaris in this follow-up to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's beloved and bestselling debut memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days--another riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of his attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KILMER-PURCELL, JOSH KILWelker, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antique Acres Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 748.2913 WELGilder, Joshua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 GILSilber, Joan
Summary: "One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILWinter, Jonah
Summary: Presents the life and legacy of Elvis, from his birth in Mississippi through his music career, his time in the army, his marriage, and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PREWinter, Jonah
Summary: Shares information on labor leader Mother Jones and her 1903 Children's Crusade protesting the dangerous conditions endured by child factory workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JONWinter, Jonah
Summary: Young Paul Revere and his friends form a club whose members ring the bells at Christ Church, an experience which teaches him responsibility and other lessons that he uses as an adult in the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WINWinter, Jonah
Summary: A biography of U.S. Supreme Court judge, Sonia Sotomayor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 SOTWinter, Jonah
Summary: An introduction to the Founding Fathers describes the heated exchanges that shaped the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, sharing fact-filled profiles of such historic icons as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 WINWinter, Jonah
Summary: As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since theVoting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINContents: Disc 1. Some Commodore highlights: Love is just around the corner Eddie Condon (3:03) -- Strange fruit Billie Holiday (3:10) -- A good man is hard to find pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) -- (You're some) Pretty doll Fats Waller (with Eddie Condon) (2:49) -- (Back home in) Indiana Don Byas, Slam Stewart (5:13) -- At a Georgia camp meeting Sidney Bechet (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COMWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A collection of six stories recounts the adventures of young Laura and Almanzo and their families as they settle into a new house, visit town, go to the county fair, make maple candy, enjoy a winter day, and celebrate Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Offers an illustrated introduction to the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that explores the ways that the society in which she grew up was unfair toward women, Jews, and other groups, and how she spent her life working to fight that unfairness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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Summary: Thurgood Marshall was a born lawyer--the loudest talker, funniest joke teller, and best arguer from the time he was a kid growing up in Baltimore in the early 1900s. He would go on to become the star of his high school and college debate teams, a stellar law student at Howard University, and, as a lawyer, a one-man weapon against the discriminatory laws against black Americans. After only two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MARSilber, Joan
Summary: "The novel begins with the character of Ethan, a lawyer living in New York City who tells us the story of his family's life just as they learn his father - a textile manufacturer who spent long trips throughout Asia - has fathered a secret family from a woman he met on one of his trips and set up in a house in Queens. From here, we move to different related characters as the novel expands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SILWinter, Jonah
Summary: A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBASummary: 1794: War and the revolution in France hang over Britain. In Cornwall, George Warleggan grows his empire with a view to crush the Poldarks while Ross and Demelza attempt to repair their relationship. Ross must ask himself how long he can allow George's ascent to continue unchecked. Facing battles both at home and abroad, will Ross answer the call and risk losing everything he holds dear?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Poldark 2017Cash, Wiley
Summary: Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CashCash, Wiley
Summary: When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds: a large airplane has crash-landed and is now sitting sideways on the runway, and there are no signs of a pilot or cargo. When the body of a local man is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: The story of an oil spill and its devastating effects on animals and the environment
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 WINWinter, Jonah
Summary: "Discover the true story of a man who lived alone in the mountains with a hobby of measuring snowfall that led to groundbreaking data tracking in climate change studies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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Summary: In Bobville, everyone is named Bob and everything is exactly the same--until one day when one Bob decides to be a Bruce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINWalker, Joni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Concordia Pub. House 2004