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Product Description: Teaching novice computer users, including seniors and individuals with disabilities such as low vision or motor skills, how to do what they want and need to do online is a formidable challenge for library staff. Part inspirational, part practical Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide is a summary of techniques, approaches, and skills that will help librarians meet this challenge...read more
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9781598844535 | 1 edition (Libraries Unltd Inc, May 6, 2011), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Teaching novice computer users, including seniors and individuals with disabilities such as low vision or motor skills, how to do what they want and need to do online is a formidable challenge for library staff.

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Product Description: Jessamyn West's spirited novel—set in the Ohio Territory in the early 1880s—is a handsomely paced adventure for lovers of period romance and suspense. Leafy Rivers is a young bride caught up in emotions she does not altogether understand and cannot quite control...read more
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9780253353023 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 5, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jessamyn West's spirited novel—set in the Ohio Territory in the early 1880s—is a handsomely paced adventure for lovers of period romance and suspense.
9780380000593 | Avon Books, July 1, 1974, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: Jessamyn West's spirited novel—set in the Ohio Territory in the early 1880s—is a handsomely paced adventure for lovers of period romance and suspense.

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Product Description: Brimming “with humor and charm and youthful animal spirits…There is much true wisdom in Cress Delahanty.” (The New York Times)West writes “gracefully, occasionally poetically, in a voice both innocent and brave.” (The Washington Post)Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel wittily portrays an adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of growing up between 12 and 16...read more
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9780151229796 | Harcourt, June 1, 1954, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: This sympathetic portrayal of adolescence tells how young Cress sets out to change her personality and becomes an individual

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9781558615168 | Feminist Pr, July 19, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Brimming “with humor and charm and youthful animal spirits…There is much true wisdom in Cress Delahanty.
9780380011230 | Avon Books, November 1, 1970, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: Brimming “with humor and charm and youthful animal spirits…There is much true wisdom in Cress Delahanty.

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Product Description: Compare and contrast library reference models and more consumer-oriented models! Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask A Librarian Online and Offline analyzes the quality of commercial Ask A Librarian (AskA) and tutorial services and how they compare to traditional library services...read more
By Jessamyn West (editor)
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9780789024428 | Routledge, June 1, 2004, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: Compare and contrast library reference models and more consumer-oriented models!

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9780789024435 | Routledge, October 1, 2004, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Compare and contrast library reference models and more consumer-oriented models!

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Product Description: "Revolting librarians aren’t defined by what they are, they are defined by what they do. In fact, it’s not even what they do, but how they do it"—Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West, in the Preface. This compilation of witty, insightful, and readable writings on the various aspects of alternative librarianship edited by two outspoken library professionals is a sequel to Revolting Librarians, which was published in 1972...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Katia Roberto (editor) and Jessamyn West (editor)
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9780786416080 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: "Revolting librarians aren’t defined by what they are, they are defined by what they do.

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Narrates the reactions of a small 1824 Indian settlement to the capture, trial, conviction and execution of five white men for the premeditated murder of nine peaceful men, women and children of the Seneca tribe
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9780844662749, titled "Massacre at Fall Creek" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1988, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: A dramatic, sweeping saga of life on the Indiana frontier in 1824, based on actual historical events.
9780151578207 | Harcourt, March 1, 1975, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Narrates the reactions of a small 1824 Indian settlement to the capture, trial, conviction and execution of five white men for the premeditated murder of nine peaceful men, women and children of the Seneca tribe

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9780156576819 | Mariner Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Narrates the reactions of a small 1824 Indian settlement to the capture, trial, conviction and execution of five white men for the premeditated murder of nine peaceful men, women and children of the Seneca tribe
9780449227718, titled "Massacre at Fall Creek" | Fawcett Books, March 1, 1976, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: A dramatic, sweeping saga of life on the Indiana frontier in 1824, based on actual historical events.

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9780808581703 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Narrates the reactions of a small 1824 Indian settlement to the capture, trial, conviction and execution of five white men for the premeditated murder of nine peaceful men, women and children of the Seneca tribe

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9780380011711 | Avon Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $1.25

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By Jessamyn West (editor)
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9780875749167 | Reprint edition (Pendle Hill Pubns, October 1, 1992), cover price $21.00

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Product Description: A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune...read more
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9780899663951, titled "Friendly Persuasion" | Buccaneer Books, August 30, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A Quaker's fondness for fast horses is an amusing sidelight in this tale of Friends who dealt with the Civil War in their own way
9780848806637, titled "Friendly Persuasion" | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, December 1, 1982), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A Quaker's fondness for fast horses is an amusing sidelight in this tale of Friends who dealt with the Civil War in their own way.

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9780156029094 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jess Birdwell, a Quaker with a fondness for fast horses, his wife Eliza, and their children struggle to deal with the turmoil, violence, and challenges of the Civil War in their own way.
9780156336062 | Reprint edition (Harvest Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A Quaker's fondness for fast horses is an amusing sidelight in this tale of Friends who dealt with the Civil War in their own way

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9781602850323 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, November 1, 2007), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community.

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9780606122993, titled "Friendly Persuasion" | Reprint edition (Demco Media, July 1, 1991), cover price $20.50 | About this edition: A Quaker's fondness for fast horses is an amusing sidelight in this tale of Friends who dealt with the Civil War in their own way

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9780785795988 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.30 | About this edition: A Quaker's fondness for fast horses is an amusing sidelight in this tale of Friends who dealt with the Civil War in their own way

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Thirty-eight stories depict suspense, romance, obsession, the supernatural, adolescence, and sexual relationships (view table of contents)
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9780151190102 | Reissue edition (Harcourt, May 1, 1988), cover price $4.98 | About this edition: Thirty-eight stories depict suspense, romance, obsession, the supernatural, adolescence, and sexual relationships

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9780156189798 | Mariner Books, December 1, 1987, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Thirty-eight stories depict suspense, romance, obsession, the supernatural, adolescence, and sexual relationships

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The author recounts her thoughts and experiences from three months in the early 1970s, when she lived alone in a travel trailer on a remote bank of the Colorado River
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9780151402151 | Harcourt, March 1, 1973, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The personal narrative of the celebrated writer reveals her family and life and sentiments towards the joys and pains of solitude

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9780156401500, titled "Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey" | Reprint edition (Harcourt, December 1, 1987), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her thoughts and experiences from three months in the early 1970s, when she lived alone in a travel trailer on a remote bank of the Colorado River

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The noted American writer celebrates her mother's life-affirming values and behavior and records their influence on her own fight with tuberculosis and her sister's courageous response to the onslaught of incurable spinal cancer
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9780156982900 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The noted American writer celebrates her mother's life-affirming values and behavior and records their influence on her own fight with tuberculosis and her sister's courageous response to the onslaught of incurable spinal cancer

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Traces the life of Ginerva Chalmers, a romantic young girl growing up in a small California town in the 1920s
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9780151849031 | Harcourt, February 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of Ginerva Chalmers, a romantic young girl growing up in a small California town in the 1920s

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Reviewing her personal journals and letters she had written to her parents fifty years ago, the author recalls her trips to England and Ireland and what travel taught her about herself
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9780151264025 | Harcourt, October 1, 1980, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Reviewing her personal journals and letters she had written to her parents fifty years ago, the author recalls her trips to England and Ireland and what travel taught her about herself

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Although Orpha Chase, the author of eighteen popular and pious novels, is considered a reflection of her characters' morality, such a belief contrasts sharply with the shocking violence and passion that are parts of her past
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9780151515622 | Harcourt, October 1, 1979, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Although Orpha Chase, the author of eighteen popular and pious novels, is considered a reflection of her characters' morality, such a belief contrasts sharply with the shocking violence and passion that are parts of her past

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9780151976379 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1951, cover price $5.75

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