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Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 Burgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert) 1925- Cerebrovascular disease Cerebrovascular disease Treatment Death Drama Occupational therapy Occupational therapy Practice Soldiers United States Biography United States. Army Biography World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanBurgess, Douglas R.
Summary: "From previously undiscovered archives in England, the Carolinas, Rhode Island, Jamaica, and elsewhere, Douglas Burgess has synthesized a fascinating retelling of the "Golden Age of Piracy", from 1660 to 1725. Pirates needed patrons, the fragile American colonies needed maritime wealth and coastal protection, and everyone except the English crown benefited from untaxed and unregulated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 BURSummary: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GOOBurgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)
Summary: In December 1944, Hitler launched a desperate massive counterstrike at the Allies, with thirty-eight German divisions slamming through American lines. Then the 101st Airborne was thrown into the fight. Fresh from seventy-two brutal days of combat in Holland, with little food and ammunition, the Screaming Eagles struck back-and stunned the German forces. Then the real battle for the town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 BURBurgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 BURBurgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 BURGESummary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGDouglas, Janet R.
Summary: When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can't believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, JANET R. DOUHofstadter, Douglas R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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Summary: Tells how to get started in radio controlled model airplanes, discusses the Academy of Model Aeronautics, and shows how to assemble and operate an RC airplane kit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 PRAEgerton, Douglas R
Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 EGEHofstadter, Douglas R.
Summary: Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 HOFHurt, R. Douglas.
Summary: "A how-to-do-it book for local historians...for writing the history of a farm." Discusses oral history, using photographs, and the importance of farm architecture. Suggests major sources, appropriate techniques for research at libraries and state historical societies, and how to write the history.--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krieger Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.2 HURHurt, R. Douglas.
Contents: British America -- The Spanish Southwest -- Spanish Alta California -- The Pacific Northwest -- The trans-Appalachian frontier -- The southern nations -- The Black Hawk War -- The Great Plains -- The Far West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 HURSummary: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THEGraves, Douglas R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Publishers 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4542 GRASummary: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BAYCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BAYSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIBosworth, Barbara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.977 BOSAxelrod, Herbert R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T.F.H. Publications 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLISummary: Join the adventure as Pablo, Tyrone, and Tasha go on their very own secret operation to save the elephants, contain an Earth-bound meteor, compete in a skateboard competition, and unplug a lava geyser before the word splits in half.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nickelodeon 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Final destination: After being kicked off the plane because of his disruptive premonition, Alex and some of his classmates watch as the premonition comes true. Now having dodged death once, the terror begins in full as fate hunts them down one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Productions 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FINSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024