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"A coming-of-age memoir about one man's miscues and false starts as he enters the world after college and attempts to answer the timeless question of who he is, while contemplating what role music, love, work, drugs, money, and books will play in his life"--Provided by publisher.
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"Rainbow Family Collections examines over 200 children's picture books and chapter books with LGBTQ content from around the world. Highlighting titles for children from infancy to age 12, each entry in Rainbow Family Collections supplies a synopsis of the content, lists awards it has received, cites professional reviews, and provides suggestions for librarians considering acquisition. The book also provides a brief historical overview of LGBTQ children's...
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Libraries have an incredible role in helping children develop a lifelong enjoyment of learning. This guide shows how Carroll County (Maryland) Public Library developed a program to train adults in promoting school readiness, with age-appropriate books, play materials, and learning opportunities.
1191) The book lover
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When Lucinda Barrett's husband destroys their marriage in a shocking betrayal, she's left with nothing but the shattered remnants of her life-- and her novel. Desperate to keep one last dream alive, she sets out on a 1,000 mile journey to get it into the hands of readers-- one bookstore at a time. Ruth Hardaway knows all about shattered dreams. For the last 30 years she's devoted her life to her store, The Book Lover, trying to bury her painful past....
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"Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers...
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Scope and content: Janet Frey shares with StoryCorps Facilitator Esi Arthur memories of her family and childhood; attending Catholic schools; attending the prom; her high school graduation; college at St. Mary's of Notre Dame; her favorite books; traveling around Europe for five months after college graduation and during the Vietnam War; how the Vietnam War impacted her family and friends; and her teaching career in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Scope and content: Photocopy of a diary created by an unidentified person, which documents the colporteur voyage of Middle Tennesseans Gideon H. Lowe, Malkijah S. Vaughan (a Presbyterian or Cumberland Presbyterian minister) and Edmund W. Vaughan from Dec. 10, 1847 to Mar. 13, 1848. Colporteurs were essentially traveling salesmen who sought to sell and distribute Christian literature to the masses. This expedition left "Lowe's woodyard" on the Cumberland...