Sewell, Kenneth (Kenneth R.)
Summary: Discusses the mysterious sinking of the U.S. submarine USS Scorpion near Hawaii in 1968, involving the sinking of a Soviet sub months earlier, secret codes confiscated from a U.S. intelligence ships by North Korea, and a government cover-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 SEWPressler, Mirjam.
Summary: Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 REIPreszler, Eric.
Summary: Provides an overview of the history and development of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, their main features, and motorcycle competitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2004
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Summary: "A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.18 PREStern, Jerome (Jerome H.)
Contents: The shapes of fiction -- A cautionary interlude -- From accuracy to zigzag : an alphabet for writers of fiction -- Readables : where to learn more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 STESuri, Jeremi
Summary: "In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SURZeisler, Andi
Summary: "A critical assessment of feminism today by the founding editor and creative director of Bitch magazine draws on the stories of institutions and everyday women to illuminate how feminism has been compromised by market forces, subversive politics and popular culture, sharing strategic recommendations for how to reverse marginalizing trends,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ZEIDreiser, Theodore
Summary: The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DREDreiser, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1987
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC DreiserReigler, Susan
Summary: Like wine lovers who dream of traveling to Bordeaux or beer enthusiasts with visions of the breweries of Belgium, bourbon lovers plan their pilgrimages to Kentucky's bourbon country. And what a country it is! Some of the most famous distilleries are tucked away in the scenic countryside of the Bluegrass region, stretching between Louisville, Bardstown, and Lexington. Locals and tourists alike...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.252 REIMartin, Jerome
Summary: This information book provides a simple introduction to the world of the ancient Maya. It describes their bustling cities and tall temples, their religious beliefs, the customs of their kings and nobles, and their passion for cacao. Perfectly suited to beginner readers, it is full of facts, illustrations, and photographs of historical artefacts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MAREisler, Barry
Summary: "1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother and sisters need him. But after four years as a Marine and another two as a CIA contractor fighting the Soviet Union alongside the Afghan mujahideen, small-town life in Abilene is a suffocating dead end. Another secret war, this one in Southeast Asia, offers a big payday and the solution to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISKagan, Jerome.
Summary: "In this overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and author addresses the ambiguities and embraces the controversies that surround this intriguing subject. An insightful and lucid thinker, Jerome Kagan examines what exactly we do know about emotions, which popular assumptions about emotions are incorrect, and how scientific study must proceed if we are to uncover the answers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 KAGRabow, Jerome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.394 RABBruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1986
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Summary: People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience such violent and frightening mood swings that they often fear for their sanity. They can be euphoric one moment, despairing and depressed the next. There are an estimated 18 million sufferers of BPD living in America today, each displaying remarkably similar symptoms such as: a shaky sense of identity ; Sudden outbursts of anger ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2010
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Summary: Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISJerome, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 JERPohlen, Jerome.
Summary: This offbeat travel guide lists some 170 unusual sites for the traveler interested in seeing a somewhat different side of Indiana. While most listings are "outlandish" others are tied to well-known individuals, such as Johnny Appleseed, Cole Porter, James Dean, John Dillinger, David Letterman, and Dan Quayle. Grouped by geographic sections of the state, each entry gives a description of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2002
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Summary: This zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and the Amana Colonies, this guide will take the adventurous traveler to the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk, the home of the "Lonely Goat Herder" marionettes from The Sound of Music, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2005
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Summary: Chronicles how the Gallo family used a combination of toil, cunning, and crime to rise from hardscrabble poverty in the early 1900s and build the most successful wine company in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Books 2009
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Summary: Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan's most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate deal with his handler: take out a high-profile target in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2014
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Summary: When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation into an international child pornography ring gets too close to powerful enemies, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry, and suspects that the FBI itself was behind it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019