Summary: Backwoods Home Magazine is written for people who have a desire to pursue personal independence, self-sufficiency, and their dreams. We offer “how-to” articles on owner-built housing, independent energy, gardening, health, self-employment, country living, and other topics related to an independent and self-reliant lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Backwoods Home Magazine 1989
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Chee, Alexander
Summary: Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHESummary: Edinburgh is the historical and cultural heart of Scotland. Take a special guided tour away from tourist-trampled routes with European travel expert, TV host, and best-selling author, Rick Steves. Rick explores the castle, peeks at the new parliament, dabbles in the local literature, sips a little Scotch, gets wrapped up in a kilt, and then stows away on Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Discover the scenic capital of Scotland with this fascinating view of the city's favorite treasures. Enjoy the history and vision of a vibrant cultural life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment 2003
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Colbert, Brandy
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLSasek, M. (Miroslav)
Summary: A pictorial presentation of the capital of Scotland, with drawings of its famous sights, monuments, and buildings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 914.1 SASSmith, Michael F. (Michael Farris)
Summary: In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SMIStout, Mary
Summary: Discusses the history, survival, religion, culture, social development, and modern world of the Blackfeet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 STOLindell, Lawrence
Summary: "Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish BFFs--Lika, Amor, Lala, and Tony--can't find what they need, they take matters into their own hands and create a space where they can be a hundred percent who they are:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LINFerris, Monica.
Summary: In the town of Excelsior, Minnesota, it's Halloween, and Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, is haunted by murder as she investigates the mysterious death of Wicca practitioner and microbrewery owner Leona Cunningham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: "Centuries ago, magic mysteriously appeared in the kingdom of Allia. At first, the mages who could wield it became servants to the king, using their newfound powers for the betterment of society. However, an evil group of mages called Blackbloods went rogue, siphoning magic from their peers before they were stopped. But after that, the king imprisoned all mages, Blackblood or not. Years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Jacket, an imprint of Little Bee Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VUODonaldson, Julie C.
Summary: Having decided she will never marry, Kate Worthington plans to escape her meddlesome family by travelling to India. Her mother agrees on the condition that she gets--and rejects--three marriage proposals. To fulfill her end of the bargain Kate travels to the manor of Blackmoore in northern England, where her plans go awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Gorton, Stephanie
Summary: "A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm--and a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 051 GORSmith, Duncan J. D.
Summary: A practical guide and a handsome tribute to one of Europe’s most fascinating cities. Published by The Urban Explorer these city tales from new and unusual perspectives provide independent travelers with unforgettable memories. Ideal for those who want to escape the crowds and get beyond the well-known paths, as well as for those inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew their city....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Urban Explorer 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Rice, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Rice, Anne.
Summary: In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2002
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Crawford, Robert
Contents: Edinburgh. -- The Royal Mile: from the castle to a song -- The Royal Mile: from story to Parliament -- Princes Street Gardens and the New Town -- Hill, Hwa-Wu, and port -- Medicine, museums, blood -- Glasgow. -- City hearts -- Poverty and wealth -- Sauchiehall Street, masterpieces, tenements, and books -- Art, learning, arsenic, and architecture -- Water -- Coda: the Falkirk Wheel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.34 CRADorst, Doug
Summary: "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORUpdike, John.
Summary: New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988