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Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character) Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Christian biography Dog rescue Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) Mutesi, Phiona Sir Shackleton, Ernest Henry 1874-1922 Travel Antarctica the Ripper Jack Torres, Tia United StatesChallies, Tim
Summary: History tells of women whose love for the Bible shaped its earliest and most prominent teachers. It tells of women who were great theologians in their own right, yet whose only students were their own children. It tells, time and time again, of Christian men who owe so much to their godly mothers. Raising children to honor and glorify the Lord is the goal of every Christian mother, but how can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cruciform Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.0922 CHAHim, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMNotaro, Tig
Summary: In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Days after her diagnosis, Tig took her grief onstage, opening an unvarnished set with, "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer." The set went viral instantly and was later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.914 TIMRubenhold, Hallie
Summary: The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 RUBHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJOMowry, Tia.
Summary: "Oh, Baby! tells moms-to-be what pregnancy really entails, in a funny, matter-of-fact, tell-it-like-it-is voice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 MOWTorres, Tia
Summary: "From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life in this heartwarming memoir featuring some of her best-loved dogs. With inimitable honesty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TORRES, TIA TORFricke, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.649 FRIReeves, Diane Lindsey
Summary: In "What's the Big Idea, Charlie Brown?," the Peanuts gang learn about America's great inventors, including a few who don't often make it into the history books. Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and pals for this new adventure that the whole family will enjoy!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Patriot Press 2014
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Summary: In "Where Did You Go, Charlie Brown?," America's beloved Peanuts gang learns about America's great explorers--a few of whom will be a surprise to parents as well! Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy and pals for a journey about exploration and discovery that will inspire adventurers everywhere!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Patriot Press 2014
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Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANBrady, Tim
Summary: Tells the story of three fearless female resisters during World War II whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History Wom BradyMcBride, Tim
Summary: "In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MCBSchwab, Tim
Summary: "A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 361.7 SCHBrookes, Tim
Summary: When baggage handlers destroy Tim Brookes's guitar, he discovers that a dream guitar is built, not bought, and sets out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar. His quest takes him across the country, talking to historians, curators, and guitar makers, and he explores the guitar's mystique: freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality. In an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 BROBrookes, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 BROButcher, Tim
Summary: The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and dugout canoe, and aided by characters ranging from U.N. aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.751 BUTButcher, Tim
Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUTCahill, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.752 CAHCahill, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.04 CAHCrothers, Tim.
Summary: The astonishing true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the slums of Kampala, Uganda, who, inspired by an unlikely mentor, a war refugee turned missionary, becomes an international chess champion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUTESI, PHIONA CROGallagher, Tim.
Summary: The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008