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21) A man of silence
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English
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"Hidden away from the outside world, tucked in the corners of rolling hills, lies a monastery. Only open to the public during certain times of day that align with the monks' strict schedule, a young girl, Mary Baptisia, and her parents volunteer to work in the garden. While there, Mary ogles at the immense beauty of the monastery with its draping tapestries, terrifying gargoyles, and divinely high nave. Mary discovers a particular monk, John Abelard,...
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English
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True crime writer Wylie Lark, snowed in at an isolated farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book, finds a small child in the snow outside and, bringing him inside for warmth and safety, learns that the farmhouse isn't as isolated as she thought.
Series
The Toilet Zone volume 3
Publisher
HellBound Books Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Restroom reading at its most loosening. There exists a mysterious dimension outside the three known to man. It is a dark realm of unspeakable evils that extends from beyond the stars to the infernal regions lying deep within the human, or more fittingly, inhuman heart. A place where demons dwell, where nightmares tend to be more than just bad dreams, and where anomalous terrors can rise up at any moment from the still, watery depths beneath you....
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Publisher
[Carnegie-Stout Public Library]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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This board book illustrates the many ways adults can foster learning and develop connections with the children in their lives. Explore how reading, singing, writing, talking, and playing each develop important skills.
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[SusanMarie Doyle]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A Woman Unto Herself is based on the Woman Print which describes the creation of woman from a unique and fresh perspective. The most inspiring line is 'I have created you in My image and likeness and YOU ARE GOOD.' This book is an expression of SusanMarie's sharing the journey of her heart into the waiting heart of God. It invites the reader to consider the gift of pain, moving into transformation, and finally recognizing one's union with God. References...
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Publisher
[Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"There are so many great ways to be healthy. Whether it be through exercise, reading, or even gardening this book encourages children to explore healthy ways of developing their physical, cognitive and social-emotional growth while in their own environment"--Back cover.
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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...
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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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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...
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[Jim Freiburger]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"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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Draca Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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