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Author
Publisher
[Ronald Arvid Spark]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Blatherskite and Other Nightmares will take you on a journey through the author's imagination. From a short jaunt through the afterlife to urban legends that are more fact than fiction and ending with a rough coming of age story this collection of tales should have something for everyone. So flip open the cover and join Dave and Sara as they search for the weed pullin' boy, Leon Franklin as he makes a deal with the devil, or just follow Rory Wilson...
Author
Publisher
Carnegie-Stout Public Library
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the history of library service in Dubuque, Iowa, from the Young Men's Library Association to the building of the Carnegie-Stout Free Library. Brief decade-by-decade snapshots summarize the library's history since its construction.
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Language
English
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"Classic Millennial: Classic Poems as Interpreted by a Millennial uses the poetry of Yeats, Frost, Dickinson, and more; reimagined by a millennial woman. Readers will find similarities with the author through her love of furbabies, her smartphone, and coffee. She also tackles more serious subjects of climate change, self-esteem, and cyberbullying. She accomplishes this all while staying with the styles of the classic poems they are modeled from, "The...
Author
Publisher
[Jim Freiburger]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Were you ever told as a child, "That's just a kite dream. That will never happen"? Well, this Iowa farm boy's kite dreams did happen, maybe not all as he expected them to unfold. Sitting on a tree stump, he tethered the string on the kite as it dipped and dived with dreams that would shape his odyssey. Jim Freiburger lived his early years with the dream of being a farmer like his father, absorbed by the world of animals, fields and a culture of Catholic...
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Publisher
Draca Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"It's the late 1960s and Jack DeWitt is going to high school. He doesn't like sports and he has this "pimple situation." He's a brain, a nerd, a bookworm, but maybe he can have some fun. Maybe he can fall in love and get his heart broken. Someone murdered his friend's dad. Maybe he can find out who. It's the best of times. It's the worst of times. It's Motown and the Beatles, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. Draft cards on fire. Pot and acid. Assassinations...
Author
Publisher
Draca Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Jack DeWitt is Clueless is a classic coming of age story set in the backdrop of the 1960s. Jack experiences the beginning of the decade as a junior high student growing up in a Midwestern factory town. He loves books. He hates sports. He's not sure girls like him. And then he has this pimple situation. Through Jack, we experience the main events of the early 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam war and the protests it engendered, the assassination...
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Series
Occasional publications volume no. 5
Publisher
Loras College Press, Center for Dubuque History
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A new, full length biography of Julien Dubuque has been long overdue. Here, Dubuque author Robert F. Klein presents a fully researched and documented study of the life of this Iowa pioneer who deserves a much greater reputation than he has so far achieved. This first white settler in Iowa lived in harmony with his Native American neighbors in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, engaging in farming, lead mining, general trading at a time when the...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"James, Lucius, Edward and Solon Langworthy arrived in the lead mining district of the Upper Midwest in the 1820s and made a lasting impression on what would become Dubuque. Their father, Dr. Stephen Langworthy, and their seventeen siblings soon joined in the wilderness adventure. Solon plowed the first fields, James built the first Methodist church and Lucius built the first road between Dubuque and Iowa City. Their ancestor James IV fought to secure...
Author
Publisher
BiblioKid Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Molly wants nothing more to score a goal for the soccer team, but just trying to kick the ball causes her to fall over. If only her legs worked as well as her brothers'. With the braces on her legs, Molly doesn't believe she'll ever be good at anything. Let alone soccer. Until her friend, Anna, encourages her to go for her dreams. Maybe now she has a chance at scoring big in the upcoming game? This friendship story opens the discussion on inclusion...
Author
Publisher
[Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Hay muchas maneras excelentes de estar saludable. Ya sea a través del ejercicio, la lectura, o incluso la jardinería. Este libro anima a los niños a explorar formas saludables de desarrollar su crecimiento físico, cognitivo y social-emocional mientras están en su propio ambiente."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Reedy Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Where can you walk on a beach full of broken pottery? What smells might you discover at the country's only perfume museum? Is there any evidence that Big Foot is real? It's no surprise that these are some of the questions that you might ask about California. In fact, the very title of this book, Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, may seem like an oxymoron to those who live here and already know about the quirky sides...
Author
Publisher
Brooks Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Pauly, as a former student, mentee, and colleague of Raymond Roseliep, embraced a creative exploration of the possibilities of haiku and senryu throughout his life. This collection of haiku, senryu and tan-renga is arranged, as much as possible, by the date of composition or publication so that you can follow his development and growth in this art"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Two of the nation's leading feminists and hosts of the hit podcast "Call Your Girlfriend" make the bold and compelling argument that a close friendship is the most influential and important relationship a human life can contain-helping you improve as a person and in your relationships with others"--
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Language
English
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"I'm not creative. I could never do something like that. I don't have time to be creative." Does any of this sound familiar? Do you find yourself wishing that you had pursued your creative talents before it was too late? In a world full of creativity, there is no such thing as "too late." Called to Be Creative is for anyone looking to reignite that tiny spark inside of them and invite creativity into their lives through simple, everyday practices....
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