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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For years, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. At the height of the Montgomery...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A librarian and authority on genealogical research offers advice and encouragement to those who are eager to uncover their family history in this guidebook. Getting started, research techniques, interviewing tips, and effective use of the library and internet are all discussed in detail in this book that is ideal for beginners and novices. The benefits and importance of genealogical research are also explored. Also included is a discussion on how...
Author
Series
Once upon a time in Texas novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Must love cowboys. Alice Martin doesn't regret putting her career above personal relationships; but when Beau comes to her for help, Alice decides to see what she's been missing. She'll improve Beau's reading skills if the handsome cowboy teaches her how to flirt and agrees to be her date to an upcoming wedding. But when the town's gossip mill gets going, they're forced into a fake romance to keep their deal a secret. Soon Alice is seeing Beau in...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after personal losses. Her older sister, Sara, still lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, where they grew up, and is married with four children. Once a dedicated librarian, Sara dreams of reviving her love affair with literature, but instead, she is stuck with too many family responsibilities and a fizzling marriage. When Hannah gets the chance to retreat to her aunt's oceanfront...
Author
Series
Chicago World's Fair mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Lydia's job at the library is her world -- until a mysterious patron catches her eye ... and perhaps her heart. Just months after the closure of the Chicago World's Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by a mysterious dark-haired and dark-eyed patron. He has never given her his name; he actually never speaks to a single person. All she knows about him is that he loves books as much as she does. Only when he rescues her in the lobby...
86) The music man
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Standard format (1.33:first).
Language
English
Description
A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Back cover: "Meet Morgan Kendall--recently widowed, single mom, part-time librarian. She's in a funk and her friends want her to do something to take her mind off the loss of her husband. Maybe it's a new love interest. Or maybe Morgan could finish what her reporter husband started, a story about the death of a young local boy by an accused pedophile. Reluctantly, Morgan yields to pressure, only to be caught in a mire of hype, spin, lies, and rumors...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a...
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Aurora finds a member of her crime buff group, the Real Murders Club, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. As other brutal copycat killings follow, Aurora will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Gracie Anderson, a single college professor in her thirties, knows her life is severely lacking--no dates, no pets, and no real personal life to speak of. But now she's stuck: her best friend, Chloe, has signed her up for a support group that meets at a local community center in an attempt to hook her friend up with the man of her dreams. Instead, Gracie meets five other women who are different from her and from one another as night and day. A librarian,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Since 9/11, the U.S. government has acted in a variety of ways--some obvious, some nearly invisible--to increase its surveillance and detention power over American citizens and residents. While most of us have made our peace with the various new restrictions on our civil liberties after 9/11, we have done it without really understanding what those restrictions are or the extent of their reach. Moreover, we tend to think that if the national security...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the nearby Tokke River, a presumed suicide since his pockets...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In the current economic climate, most librarians recognize the critical importance of marketing as a means of self-preservation, largely accepting that the future of libraries requires marketing in order to increase library use and public perceptions of worth. This anthology offers practical insight on marketing techniques specifically designed for libraries"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
Author
Pub. Date
1972
Language
English
Description
On location at Washington Valley schoolhouse in Morris Township in 1972, Anita Hotchkiss interviews Morristown & Morris Township Library's local history librarian Barbara Hoskins, and J. Burton Wiley, who was superintendent of the Morris County School system for over 40 years. The history of the Washington Valley Schoolhouse and the history of the Morris County, New Jersey school system are discussed. Mr. Wiley gives first hand accounts about Morris...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The easy-to-do twist on traditional allowance that's wowing parents across the country! The program featured in Earn it, learn it is the only one that lets kids ages four through twelve earn by doing "real" jobs. Your child will learn from folks like a toy designer from Crayola, curator from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, zoologist from the Saint Louis Zoo. Teach your kid the difference between making the bed as a member of the family...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative overview that explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor led to the evacuation and internment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans; details living conditions in the camps; discusses the economic, emotional, and physical toll on interned Japanese-Americans; and ponders the legacy of internment on American society. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more"--
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