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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 909.07 HORKooser, Ted.
Summary: Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KOOKooser, Ted.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize winner and best selling poet Ted Kooser calls attention to the intimacies of life through commonplace objects and occurrences: an elderly couple sharing a sandwich is a study in transcendent love, while a tattered packet of spinach seeds calls forth innate human potential. This long-awaited collection from the former U.S. Poet Laureate--ten years in the making--is rich with quiet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.54 KOOKooser, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.2 KOOKooser, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 KOOKooser, Ted
Summary: "A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in a tree, or an empty nest perched on a leafless branch? As poet Connie Wanek alludes to in her afterword--a lively dialogue with former US Poet Laureate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KOOHOLMAN,J.ALAN , ET AL.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 597.96 HOLMorgan, Ted
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina - and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MORMorgan, Ted
Summary: This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries... From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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Summary: Historian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America, he relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist--and increasingly, many were. He spends months in the back country, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books/Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 965.04 MORGAN, Ted MORMorgan, Ted
Summary: This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries... From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970 MORFokker, Anthony H. G. (Anthony Herman Gerard)
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1931
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 FOKSummary: Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KOR(Jordan, William R., Et. Al.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7153 RESSummary: Join Walking Dead star and motorcycle enthusiast Norman Reedus on epic road trips around the world. Each episode features Reedus and a riding companion a fellow actor, musician, or friend, exploring local culture and seeking adventure on the road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RIDSummary: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 919.9 FARWatson, Jane Werner
Summary: Describes, simply, a visit to the dentist's office, how teeth are filled and cleaned, and what to do to have good, healthy teeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Watson 1989Jackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the heart of downtown Seattle is the Union Gospel Mission - a homeless shelter catering to the addicted and the abused. For these men and women, hope is a novelty, self-esteem a luxury, and recovery a faraway ideal. But within the UGM is one man, an ex-Army Ranger, who believes in them. Believes in life. Believes in mountains. And he will attempt to use one of the most treacherous peaks in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEWSummary: Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008