Alison Larkin
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AMPL Dark Academia
Classic Horror Novels--Melrose Park Public Library
Classics - St. Charles Public Library
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Classic Horror Novels--Melrose Park Public Library
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A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The picture of Dorian Gray was a...
2) Moby-Dick
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A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
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Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
I Love My Library
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National Library Week, April 3-9, 2022
I Love My Library
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"When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!"--
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Alice in Wonderland and Jabberwocky are brought to sparkling new life in this brilliant recording by internationally acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin, and Audie Award-winning narrator Derek Perkins.
The recordings are followed by a short excerpt from the Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, by Carroll's nephew Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.
Cover illustration by Lisa Cavender.
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Disney fairies collection volume 1
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The trouble with Tink: Tinker Bell, a pots-and-pans fairy who loves fixing things, has lost her hammer and now everything she tries to repair goes wrong, but in order to get her talent back, she may have to visit a former friend who once hurt her feelings. Beck and the great berry battle: Beck, a fairy, has a talent for talking to animals, but that may not be enough when she tries to mediate a war between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks.
8) Leopold
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In this charming rhyming tale, a turtle named Leopold who was too afraid to set foot in the river goes on a journey that proves that facing fears can set people free.