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Chronicles of Narnia Chronicles of Narnia (Harper Children's Audio (Firm)) Chronicles of Narnia (Large print) ; bk. 1 Chronicles of Narnia 3 Chronicles of Narnia 5 Hostage of empire 1 National parks, America's best idea Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered) Standard deviants core curriculum Studies in postwar American political developmentNaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: A collection of nonfiction writings includes discussions on the writers who have influenced the author's literary career, his early encounters with literary culture, the impact of the works of Gandhi and other Indian writers, and reflections on his life and family history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 NAIGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: "S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 GWYHughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGBuffett, Jimmy
Summary: Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett regaled audiences for over five decades with songs about the faces and places from his lifelong journey along the road less traveled. His upcoming album Equal Strain On All Parts is a new chapter in that story as a playful and heartfelt gift to his dedicated fans. Inspired by his grandfather's description of a good nap, the album features some well-known friends,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1986
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Summary: Slowing down to focus on his younger years, this detailed portrait of "Jack" Lewis helps us discover seeds of what would inform his later writings--such as his delight in literature, his key relationships, his suffering and struggles, and his intense pursuit of joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, C.S. POEKabaservice, Geoffrey M.
Summary: Explores the origins of the Republican Party's shift from a party of moderation to one of extremism, beginning in the early 1960s with President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 KABGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: "New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach--two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s--changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 GWYFrank, Thomas
Summary: "It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.26 FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic FrankEmmett, S. C.
Summary: Two queens, two concubines, six princes. Innumerable hidden agendas. Yala, lady-in-waiting to the princess of a vanquished kingdom, must navigate their captors' treacherous imperial court. The Emperor's palace -- full of ambitious royals, sly gossip, and unforeseen perils -- is perhaps the most dangerous place in Zhaon. A hostage for her conquered people's good behavior, the lady Komor Yala has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMMKazin, Michael
Summary: "A history of the Democratic Party from Andrew Jackson to Joe Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2736 KAZSummary: In this program, top verb experts including the yodeling Midori sisters and a circus sideshow barker demonstrate the past, present, and future forms of the simple, perfect, progressive, and perfect progressive tenses. Conditional statements, conjugation, helping verbs, and the verbals-gerunds, infinitives, and past and present participles-are considered as well. Dangling participles and other...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Wood, Gordon S.
Contents: Rip Van Winkle's America -- Experiment in republicanism -- A monarchical republic -- The Federalist program -- The emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican party -- The French Revolution in America -- John Adams and the few and the many -- The crisis of 1798-1799 -- The Jeffersonian revolution of 1800 -- Republican society -- The Jeffersonian West -- Law and an independent judiciary -- Chief...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 WOOGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: Cultivated from his many essays, articles, and letters, as well as his classic works, The Reading Life provides guidance and reflections on the love and enjoyment of books. Engaging and enlightening, this well-rounded collection includes Lewis' reflections on science fiction, why children's literature is for readers of all ages, and why we should read two old books for every new one.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne / HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 LEWStreissguth, Michael
Summary: "In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads while legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.642 STRLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 1990
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CNelson, Kinloch
Contents: Pearl St. -- Lazin' in my sleep -- Partly on time -- Funky Susan -- Coming down from the ceiling -- The eys of the fair Molly -- Kittens -- Solitudes -- Company leaves -- Tom Siebert's boat -- Winnipesaukee night -- Tone poem.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK NELGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: "The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 GWYLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 1990
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CWallis, Michael
Summary: In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEW2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LEW
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LEWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LewisCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Lewis 2007Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Summary: Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1851, word spread of California’s beautiful Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wished to exploit the land for commercial gain as well as those who wished to keep it pristine. This episode relates how a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir made protecting this land a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passed an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development—the first time in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009