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Great Graphic Novels
Kindergarten
Baxter the Tweeting dog by [Doreen Marts]
Bean Dog and Nugget: the ball by Charise Mericle Harper
Owly. Vol. 3. Flying lessons by Andy Runton
A trip to the bottom of the world with Mouse: a Toon Book by Frank Viva
Silly Lilly in What will I be today?: a toon book by Agnès Rosenstiehl by Rosenstiehl, Agnès
First Grade
Arf and the greedy grabber by Philip Wooderson ; illustrated by Bridget MacKeith ; colors by Jessica Fuchs
Michigan Fiction & Authors
Kindergarten
The twelve days of Christmas in Michigan by written by Susan Collins Thoms ; illustrated by Deb Pilutti
Bernida: a Michigan sailing legend by Al Declercq and Tom Ervin with Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by David Miles
Island magic by Martha Bennett Stiles ; illustrated by Daniel San Souci
M is for mitten: the Michigan alphabet book by Annie Appleford ; illustrated by Michael Monroe
Up, up, up dear dragon by Margaret Hillert ; illustrated by David Schimmell
1st Grade
Alien ice cream by David Anthony and Charles David ; illustrations, Lys Blakeslee
Halloween Horror!
Get in the mood for a very scary Halloween with one these very scary films from the Library's DVD Collection:
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
It was on October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona that the infamous gunfight took place. Generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American West, it is believed to have lasted all of thirty seconds. On one side were the cowboy outlaws Billy Clairborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury. Opposing them were Marshall Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt, as well as Doc Holliday. Hollywood versions of the gun battle can be found in the films My Darling Clementine (1946), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) and Tombstone (1993). Find out what the fight was really all about and who survived by checking out some of the following books and dvds from the Library's collection:
The last gunfight: the real story of the shootout at the O.K. Corral and how it changed the American West by Jeff Guinn
And die in the West: the story of the O.K. Corral gunfight by Paula Mitchell Marks
If You Like Alice Hoffman...
A bigamist's daughter by Alice McDermott
Buster Midnight's Cafe by Sandra Dallas
Echo by Francesca Lia Block
Flight behavior: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The round house by Louise Erdrich
The flight of Gemma Hardy: a novel by Margot Livesey
The mercy rule by Perri Klass
The beginner's goodbye: a novel by Anne Tyler
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Some New Football Titles to Huddle Around!
Against football: one fan's reluctant manifesto by Steve Almond
Football: great writing about the national sport by edited by John Schulian
The game before the money: voices of the men who built the NFL by Jackson Michael
The opening kickoff: the tumultuous birth of a football nation by Dave Revsine
Season of Saturdays: a history of college football in 14 games by Michael Weinreb
The storm and the tide: tragedy, hope and triumph in Tuscaloosa by Lars Anderson
Adult Contemporary Book Discussion November 17
Please join the Adult Contemporary Book Discussion Group on Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM in the Community Room to discuss:
The kitchen house by Kathleen Grissom. After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.
What We're Reading: October 2014
The First World War in 100 objects by John Hughes-Wilson ; IWM consultant, Nigel Steel ; editor, Mark Hawkins-Dady
The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs by Greil Marcus
Music in the shadows: noir musical films by Sheri Chinen Biesen
Seven elements that changed the world: an adventure of ingenuity and discovery by John Browne
In the kingdom of ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
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The Great Chicago Fire
The great fire by Jim Murphy
Smoldering city: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871- 1874 by Karen Sawislak
City of the century: the epic of Chicago and the making of America by Donald L. Miller
City of big shoulders: a history of Chicago by Robert G. Spinney
Look What's In Large Print: October 2014
Wilson [large print] by A. Scott Berg
The little girl who fought the Great Depression [large print]: Shirley Temple and 1930s America by John F. Kasson
Heart [large print]: an American medical odyssey by Dick Cheney and Jonathan Reiner, MD, with Liz Cheney
The man he became: how FDR defied polio to win the presidency [large print] by James Tobin
You must remember this [large print]: life and style in Hollywood's golden age by Robert J. Wagner with Scott Eyman
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