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    • Ramona And Her Father

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    Gorky Rises

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    • Gorky Rises

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      William Steig

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      Book, 1st, Farrar Straus & Giroux (J), 1980

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      Clutching the bottle of magic potion he has made, a young frog falls asleep and wakes to find himself floating in the sky.

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    Walt Whitman, A Life

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    • Walt Whitman, A Life

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      Justin Kaplan

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      Book, First edition., Simon & Schuster, 1980

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      Whitman’s genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.

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      • Collingswood Adult NonFic
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    Cosmos

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    • Cosmos

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      Carl Sagan

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      Book, 1, Random House, 1980

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      Told with Sagans remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself.

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    Abroad : British Literary Traveling Between The Wars

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    One Child

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    • One Child

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      by Torey L. Hayden

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      Book, Putnam Adult, 1980

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      This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden’s battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential.

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      • Collingswood Adult NonFic
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    The Pinballs

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    • The Pinballs

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      by Betsy Byars

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      Book, HarperCollins, 1992

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      Notable Children’s Book of 1977 (ALA)1977 Children’s Book Award (CSA)Best Books of 1977 (SLJ)Notable 1977 Children’s Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)Children’s Books of 1977 (Library of Congress)International Year of the Child Special Hans Christian Andersen Honors List (IBBY)1980 William Allen White Award (Kansas)1980 Mark Twain Award (Missouri Library Association)1980 California Young Readers Award1982 Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin)1978-79 Georgia Children’s Book Award1980 Charlie May Simon Children’s Books Award (Arkansas)

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    Bloomsbury: A House Of Lions

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    Chopin

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    Of Wolves And Men

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    • Of Wolves And Men

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      by Barry Holstun Lopez

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      Book, First edition, third printing., ScribnerCharles Scribner’s Sons, 1978

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      Originally published in 1978, this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the National Book Award finalist includes an entirely new afterword in which the author considers the current state of knowledge about wolves and recent efforts to reintroduce wolves to their former habitats in American wilderness areas.

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      • Collingswood Adult NonFic
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    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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    Samuel Johnson

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    Why The Tides Ebb And Flow

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    • Why The Tides Ebb And Flow

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      Joan Chase Bowden; illustrated by Marc Brown

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      Book, Houghton Mifflin, 1979

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      In this folktale explaining why the sea has tides, an old woman threatens to pull the rock from the hole in the ocean floor. “A wonderful ‘just-so’ story with a bonus ending explaining more than the title promises.” — School Library Journal, starred review ALA Notable Book Horn Book Fanfare Selection

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    Getting There: Frontier Travel Without Power

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    • Getting There: Frontier Travel Without Power

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      by Suzanne Hilton

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      Book, 1st, Westminster John Knox Pr, 1980

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      Describes what it was like to travel by horseback, stagecoach, canalboat, flatboat, covered wagon, and sailing ship before the days of motorized travel.

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      • Collingswood Juv NonFict
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    American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964

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    • American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964

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      William Manchester

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      Book, 1st, Little, Brown and Company, 1978

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      MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brilliant biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike.

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