Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (224 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for three days and was absorbed into American myth. As...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could...
103) The maple festival
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"Sophie helps her mother bake maple treats for the annual Maple Festival in Silverlake Forest. When she notices no one at her mother's stand, she must find a way to attract more visitors"--
Author
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
vii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Woodstock: the Oral History is the definitive, electrifying account of the rock festival that shook the world and defined a generation. In 1969 four young men had a dream: to produce the greatest rock concert ever held. Little did the group―two budding entrepreneurs who really wanted to write sitcoms, a former head shop proprietor turned rock band manager, and a record company executive who smoked hash in his office―know how enormous a reality...
105) Creating Woodstock
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock 'n' roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized for 50 years, the filmmakers set the record straight with the most comprehensive examination of how the festival came to be using original interviews with key figures, rare archival footage and unearthed photographs.
106) Taking Woodstock
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate business. Three weeks later half a million...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation...
108) Soul lanterns
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
Author
Formats
Description
"The Lights of Sugarberry Cove is a charming, delightful story of family, healing, love, and small town Southern charm by USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber. Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family, but despite her success, she wonders...
110) Harvest House
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
111) Pumpkinheads
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different. Josiah and Deja are finally seniors. It's their last season at the Patch, their last shift together--their last good-bye. Josie's ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. (He's the melancholy...
112) Caraval
Author
Series
Caraval volume 1
Pub. Date
©2017
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Scarlett Dragna sueña con asistir a la celebración anual de Caraval, unos legendarios juegos que duran una semana y en los que la audiencia participa para ganar el Gran Premio. Caraval es magia, misterio y aventura. Y para Scarlett y su hermana representa la libertad y poder de huir de su estricto y cruel padre. Ahora Scar está a punto de casarse con un hombre al que nunca ha visto y cree que su sueño nunca se cumplirá. Justo dos semanas antes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Songs focus on holidays that specifically honor Latin American culture--Cinco de Mayo, Carnival, Cesar Chavez Day--as well as the more familiar fiestas celebrated around the world like New Year's Day, Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, and much more.
115) Shanghai sukkah
Author
Series
Formats
Description
To escape the Nazis, a young Jewish boy named Marcus and his family move to Shanghai, where Marcus and his new friend Liang build a sukkah on the roof and together they celebrate Sukkot and the Chinese Moon Festival.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 12 cm)
Description
With frequent stops at pop culture meccas, and unforgettable encounters with humans of singular interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces listeners not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them, and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way listeners have come to expect from NPR.
118) Thread of love
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Three siblings enjoy the Indian festival of Raksha Bandhan, a celebration of the special relationship between brothers and sisters, in this reinterpretation of the song Frère Jacques.
120) Yotsuba&!: 8
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 8
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
214 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
"The ranch wasn't fun, huh? But maybe festivals will be less funner?! (Yotsuba's playing opposites, ha-ha!) Yotsuba got uninvited to Fuuka's school for a culr-- a clart-- a cultural festival! And she didn't promise Yotsuba there wouldn't be CAKE! Yotsuba doesn't want a cake as biiiiiig as Jumbo, nope!! You wouldn't either, now would you?! Ohhh! And then, and then! There ISN'T gonna be a great big festival for the whole town to go to! And Yotsuba isn't...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request