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  Stephen Sondheim
  

  American composer, lyricist, and one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater. Here is just a sampling of his vast body of work.

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  Art of the New Deal
  

  A catalog list of FLP materials created for various federal art programs of the WPA shown during the virtual lecture recorded on Wed. Nov 10th, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikmujLa1DiM

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  One is a feast for Mouse : a Thanksgiving tale by Cox, Judy.

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  A Thanksgiving treat, After a delicious Thanksgiving dinner was served and eaten Mouse appears out of his hiding place, This is a funny look at our own holiday and being thankful for the little things we have.  Mouse tried to get food one by one back to his tiny hole and didnt see CAT crawling towards him.  After a swoosh of the cats paw, Mouse looses everything he was carrying ,  He then spots one tiny teeny pea on the floor.  He took the pea back to his tiny hole and was thankful for his feast.

   

   

  Reviewed by Mary D on Nov 23, 2021

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  Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination… by O'Reilly, Bill.

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  This book recounts the story of how 1 shot changed the country forever in Spring 1865, it does tell you about the war, but its mostly the last 3 days of Lincoln's life.

  The Civil War ends in Spring 1865 and so many terrible battles and lives lost.

  President Lincoln have Robert E Lee's very generous terms of surrender to help heal the nation of all the hatred the north and south had for each other.

  One man and his accomplices reaching into the highest ranks of government are not happy about losing the war. In the middle of all the celebrating in Washington over winning the war John Wilkes Booth, a real ladies man, and well known actor of the time murders Lincoln in the Ford's Theatre.

  The first part of the book Total War, tells of Robert E Lee's plans and thoughts.  The second part of the book is the ideas of death talks about John Wilkes Booth life before the assination.  The 3 part of the book The Long Good Friday talks about the 3 days before the assination for both Lincoln and Booth. 

  There are 3 other men involved, they tried to kill Ulysses Grant that night as well but failed because he left early to go home from Washington and Vice President Andrew Johnson.  All three of these men were killed for their part. 

   

  Reviewed by Mary D on Nov 19, 2021

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  Everybunny dance! by Sandall, Ellie,

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  This childrens book is about playful creativity with beautiful illustrations from Ellie Sandall.

  This book will get all kids up and dancing along the bunnies many sizes and colors with a surprise visit from the Fox! Even Fox can join in with run, jump dance and play and all can be together every day,

  Fun book to read to your little ones and have them dance along.

   

  Reviewed by Mary D on Nov 18, 2021

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  Little Elliot, big family by Curato, Mike.

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  Mouse and Elliot are friends, mouse has a very large family15 brothers, 19 sisters, 25 aunts, 27 uncles, and 147 cousins. 

  Mouse likes to count them up a lot. Elliot has no family, while mouse leaves for a big family reunion , Elliot is feeling lonely and takes a walk in the city, seeing everyone out with family members.  This makes Elliot very sad.  The book is taking place in winter time and so as its getting cold out Elliot goes to see a movie by himself, the theatre was big and dark and empty. Elliot missed mouse and wished he had all of those cousins even just one.  

  What happens next tells you how strong friendship can be and you don't have to have the same blood line to be family.

   

  Reviewed by Mary D on Nov 9, 2021

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  This is how I lied by Gudenkauf, Heather,

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  The book starts out with Eve Knox being attacked and murdered a few days before Christmas when she is 16 years old.

  There it skips to 25 years later, and a new clue is found in her case and now with DNA they are opening the case up to see if they can find the killer.

  Eve's best friend Maggie is a police detective and put in charge of this case since the new chief thinks it will be an easy case and she is 9 months pregnant.

  Maggie and Eve's sister found the body. Ths takes place in a small town names Grotto in Iowa.

  Maggie's father was the police chief when Eve was killed and worked on this case until his retirement due to dimentia.

  The book skips from the past to the present throughout the book.  

  When in the past its days before Eve's death leading up to the killing, it shows that Eve is in a violent relationship with her boyfriend Nick who abuses her, and was the main suspect for most of his life in the town.  Then there is Cam Harper the husband of the family both girls babysat for and we find out Maggie had an affair with him and that he preys on young girls and Maggie got pregnant by him and then lost the baby.  Maggie keeps the affair a secret and never telling anyone. But Eve knew and threaten to tell so then Maggie and her had a big fight and Maggie actually thinks she is the one who killed her but has hidden it for 25 years.

  The book makes you think along the way that Maggie, Sean, (Maggie's husband) Cam, and Nick all could of killed Eve.

  In the end, the evidence comes back that is it actually Cam Harper the neighbor that killed her because she was going to tell and ruin his life that he had affairs with many 16 year olds over the years and he was not going to go to jal for rape , so he killed her. 

  The book ends with Maggie having the baby and finally able to live her life with guilt of her killing her best friend.

  Reviewed by Mary D on Nov 8, 2021

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  Eternal by Scottoline, Lisa,

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  The book takes place during World War II .

  I liked this book because it told the side of Italy during the war and you don't often hear that side , it's usually France , Germany, Britain.

  This story is about 3 friends, Elisabetta , Marco, Sandro and begins in 1937, Elisabetta cares for her alcoholic father, Sandro lives a good life with his father who is a lawyer and mother who is a doctor and a very loving family.

  Marco's family runs the neighborhood bar and restaurant.

  Sandro and Marco are best friends but both love Elisabetta, who has feelings for both of them.

  This book shows Benito Mussolini rise in power, how he was loved and devoted to by the people of the older generation and not so much by the younger generation.  When Mussolini aligns himself with Hitler, the people start to see he is not what they thought he was.  Hitler makes Mussolini deport the jews to Auschwitz.  People are upset but if they say or do anything they would be arrested themselves. 

  Sandro's family is forced to  leave and Marco, who with his father is working with the underground to undermine Mussolini, tries to stop Sandro's family from being deported but in doing so Marco's father is shot dead.  Marco and Elisabetta have a plan to get Sandro out of where he is being held before he is shipped to Auschwitz.  Elisabetta knowing that she loves Sandro and wants to marry him and is pregnant with his child helps with the plan.  During the escape the Nazi army are about to shoot Marco and Sandro steps in front and is killed.

  Mussolini finally surrenders to the allies and Marco asked Elisabetta to marry him and he will raise the baby as his own.

  They do tell their son when he is old enough to understand, but assures him that he is Marco's son in his heart. 

   

  Reviewed by Mary D on Nov 2, 2021

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