Traig, Jennifer.
Summary: A woman who suffered from an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder in her childhood recounts how her drive for perfection and incessant hand-washing rituals compromised her daily life and strained her relationship with her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRAIG, JENNIFER TRACragg, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.2465 CRAKraig, Bruce.
Contents: Inside the dog: lore and history -- Democratic food and popular culture -- Hot dog people: entrepreneurs, experts, and fans -- Hot dog emporia: signs and meanings -- Doggie styles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AltaMira Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.66 KRAHendershot, Heather
Summary: "Heather Hendershot argues that a moment long understood as sitting at the crux of American political history-the chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago-is also crucial to understanding the country's media history. By scrutinizing those events and broadcasts in precise detail, Hendershot documents the emergence of the idea that the media are inherently liberal. As she shows, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 HENPederson, Rena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 204.4 PEDSummary: "In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRHendershot, Heather
Summary: "Few conservatives are as revered and admired as William F. Buckley. Buckley is best known for founding National Review, the flagship journal of the right. But his long-running talk show Firing Line was equally important, because it allowed him to reach beyond the conservative enclave and engage millions of mainstream Americans. When Firing Line premiered in 1966, only two years after Barry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 HENHendershot, Ray
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.422 HENMendelson, Edward.
Summary: An exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portray the essential experiences of life. For Mendelson--a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University--these classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers who are thinking about the course of their own lives. Looking beyond theories to the individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Lit MendelsonMendelson, Zoƫ
Summary: "Through over 30 chapters, Pussypedia not only gives the reader information, but teaches them how to read science, how to consider information in its context, and how to accept what we don't know rather than search for conclusions. It also weaves in personal anecdotes from the authors and their friends--sometimes funny, sometimes sad, often cringe-worthy, and always extremely personal--to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 MENMendelson, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 MENMendelson, Cheryl
Summary: A critical assessment of the "moral mentality" espoused by the political right identifies inconsistencies in its conservative values, arguing that right-wing leadership is lacking in moral compassion and unable to live up to its prescribed notions of virtuous behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 MENMendelson, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.415 MENCraige, Betty Jean.
Summary: Craige presents an academic yet highly entertaining narrative on parrot rearing by citing numerous informative studies while also providing a firsthand account of life with an African gray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sherman Asher Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.6865 CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD SWAT team negotiator takes a job as a police chief in a small Southern California town after a hostage situation gone bad results in recurring nightmares for him. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon the deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken a man and his two children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACrain, William C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 CRACrase, Douglas
Summary: MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, "rests a formidable underground reputation." Now, by combining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightboat Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 CRAGragg, Rod
Summary: Describes the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Includes facsimiles of journal entries, maps, and letters inserted in folders and under flaps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.8 GRACrain, Mary Beth
Summary: "Summing up the eerie essence of wartime scenes across America, Haunted U.S. Battlefields is a must for students of the paranormal, Civil War buffs, and all others interested in a spine-chilling realm of military history that the history books don't daretell"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 CRAGunderson, Jessica
Summary: Retells the classic German version of the fairy tale of a girl and a wolf, along with similar tales from Italy and Taiwan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Pr Inc 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GUNGunderson, Jessica
Summary: In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries. In France, groups of anti-Nazi citizens, known as the French Resistance, fought to stop Germany's reign of terror. A brave woman named Nancy Wake became one of the movement's greatest assets as a spy. In her role, Wake often transported Jews to safe locations and rode her bicycle through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAKGunderson, Mary.
Summary: Presented in a chronological style, this book interweaves history and description of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition with discussions of their cooking methods. Includes recipes using food stuffs common in the 19th century, wild foods found along their journey, and some Native American foods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Cooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 GUNBernthal, Criag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISI Books 2003