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FROM: "Gus Falkenberg" <[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 2/6/04, 10:00 AM

A woman called asking whether we could identify the book that she says
she was named after. She remembers that the title was something like
"Beverly of Gross Star", but it could be anything that sounds similar to
that. She is 77 years old, so the book must be older than that. We
have tried a number of different combinations on WorldCat, ABE.com, and
others and have not been able to find anything similar. Does anyone
remember an old book with a similar title or have any ideas where else
to look? Thanks for any help you can give.

Gus

Gus Falkenberg
Reference and Technologies Librarian
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
400 Eau Claire Street
Eau Claire, WI 54701
[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
Voice: 715-839-1683
Fax: 715-833-5310

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/6/04, 10:06 AM

BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK, part of the "Graustark" series by George
Barr McCutcheon.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

At 09:55 AM 2/6/04 -0600, you wrote:
>A woman called asking whether we could identify the book that she says
>she was named after. She remembers that the title was something like
>"Beverly of Gross Star", but it could be anything that sounds similar to
>that. She is 77 years old, so the book must be older than that. We
>have tried a number of different combinations on WorldCat, ABE.com, and
>others and have not been able to find anything similar. Does anyone
>remember an old book with a similar title or have any ideas where else
>to look? Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>Gus
>
>Gus Falkenberg
>Reference and Technologies Librarian
>L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
>400 Eau Claire Street
>Eau Claire, WI 54701
[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
>Voice: 715-839-1683
>Fax: 715-833-5310
>
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FROM: "Connie Millman" <[removed]@eldoradolibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/6/04, 11:14 AM

The title is "Beverly of Graustark", author is George Barr McCutcheon. This book is mentioned in "A tree grows in Brooklyn" as one that the librarian picks for Francie as a "good book for a girl". The publication date is 1904. Hope this helps.

Connie Millman
El Dorado County Library

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/6/04, 11:19 AM

At 09:55 AM 2/6/04 -0600, you wrote:
>A woman called asking whether we could identify the book that she says
>she was named after. She remembers that the title was something like
>"Beverly of Gross Star", <snip>

Forgot to mention that George McCutcheon's BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK is
available online:

http://www.gutenberg.net/etext04/bvgrk10.txt

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/04, 1:52 PM

This is Beverly of Graustark, one of a series of Graustark novels by George
Barr McCutcheon. I read them when I was young. I believe they come from
the early Twentieth Century (and no, I'm not 77 -- yet!)

Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Librarian II

Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library

[removed]@saclibrary.org
[removed]@hotmail.com

Subject: Looking for: "Beverly of Gross Star" ?
From: "Gus Falkenberg" <[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:55:14 -0600

A woman called asking whether we could identify the book that she says
she was named after. She remembers that the title was something like
"Beverly of Gross Star", but it could be anything that sounds similar to
that. She is 77 years old, so the book must be older than that. We
have tried a number of different combinations on WorldCat, ABE.com, and
others and have not been able to find anything similar. Does anyone
remember an old book with a similar title or have any ideas where else
to look? Thanks for any help you can give.

Gus

Gus Falkenberg
Reference and Technologies Librarian
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
400 Eau Claire Street
Eau Claire, WI 54701
[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
Voice: 715-839-1683
Fax: 715-833-5310

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FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 2/15/04, 2:10 PM

If your patron can deal with computers, I found the Graustark novels at
www.knowledgerush.com. And in one of S.J. Perelman's Cloudland Revisited
essays, he demolishes the first Graustark novel in about 5 pages.

Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District (FMG), 401 East University
Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601 (352-334-3939; fax 352-334-3948)

"Non, merci."
--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn S. Smith-Roberts [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 2:45 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Looking for: "Beverly of Gross Star" ?

This is Beverly of Graustark, one of a series of Graustark novels by George
Barr McCutcheon. I read them when I was young. I believe they come from
the early Twentieth Century (and no, I'm not 77 -- yet!)

Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Librarian II

Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library

[removed]@saclibrary.org
[removed]@hotmail.com

Subject: Looking for: "Beverly of Gross Star" ?
From: "Gus Falkenberg" <[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:55:14 -0600

A woman called asking whether we could identify the book that she says
she was named after. She remembers that the title was something like
"Beverly of Gross Star", but it could be anything that sounds similar to
that. She is 77 years old, so the book must be older than that. We
have tried a number of different combinations on WorldCat, ABE.com, and
others and have not been able to find anything similar. Does anyone
remember an old book with a similar title or have any ideas where else
to look? Thanks for any help you can give.

Gus

Gus Falkenberg
Reference and Technologies Librarian
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
400 Eau Claire Street
Eau Claire, WI 54701
[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
Voice: 715-839-1683
Fax: 715-833-5310

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