Karsh, Yousuf
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine, Publisher 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 KARKarbo, Karen.
Contents: The importance of being brash -- Strive to defy categorization -- The necessity of having an aviator in your life -- How to stick to your knitting -- The impracticality of marriage -- Making the most of a dysfunctional relationship -- Some thoughts on denial -- Fear management, the Hepburn way -- Thinking like a legend -- Twenty-two ways to get your Hepburn on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEPBURN, KATHARINE KARMarsh, Sarah
Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARKarbo, Karen
Summary: Presents information on female rule-breakers, including Josephine Baker, Jane Goodall, Margaret Cho, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 KARKars, Marjoleine
Summary: "The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 KARMarsh, Sarah Jane
Summary: "John Hancock and Samuel Adams were an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hancock was young and dashing. Adams was old and stodgy. But working together, they rallied the people of Boston against the unfair policies of Great Britain and inspired American resistance. And to King George, they became a royal pain. When the British army began marching toward Lexington and Concord, sending Hancock and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney · Hyperion 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MARKirsch, Jonathan
Contents: Something rich and strange -- Spooky knowledge and last things -- The history of a delusion -- The Apocalyptic invasion -- "Your own days, few and evil" -- To begin the world over again -- The godless Apocalypse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 228 KIRStockman, Farah
Summary: "Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.13 STOMarsh, Sarah Glenn
Summary: "The inspiring true story of Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across America in 1909."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAMKalish, Nancy.
Summary: 1,001 people from around the world responded to Dr. Kalish's Lost Love Project questionnaire, a survey of people who had rekindled a relationship after at least a five year separation. Accounts of their rekindled loves are told in their own words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 KALNaish, Darren
Summary: "Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea creatures who reigned supreme in the ocean for 150 million years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 567.9 NAIYoussef, Jagger
Summary: "No discussion of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is complete without a close look at Martin Luther King Jr. This carefully researched book is an invaluable source of biographical information and uses King's own powerful words to tell the story of his life and the fight for equality. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Civil Rights Act are among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMMcBride, Karyl.
Summary: "Author of the bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers Dr. Karyl McBride draws on her expertise in treating children and partners damaged by narcissists in this practical new guide to divorce and its aftermath. With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 MCBDaoudi, Youssef
Summary: She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius fighting against the whims of his troubled mind. Their enduring friendship begins in 1954 and ends only with Monk's death in 1982. Set against the backdrop of New York during the heyday of jazz, Monk! explores the rare alchemy between two brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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Summary: "First Lady Abigail Adams is an honored figure in U.S. history. Her correspondence offers historical primary sources, helping us understand what it was like to be a woman, a mother, and an American in the early days of the United States. This fascinating and accessible biography of Adams's life uses her own words to reflect the wit, intelligence, and opinions of this early advocate for women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ADAKearse, Bettye
Summary: "A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 KEANaish, Darren
Summary: Dinosaurs: The Ultimate Guide to How They Lived taps into our enduring interest in dinosaurs, shedding new light on different dinosaur groups. Leading paleontology experts Darren Naish and Paul Barrett trace the evolution, anatomy, biology, ecology, behavior, and lifestyle of a variety of dinosaurs. They also remind us that dinosaurs are far from extinct: they present evidence supporting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 567.9 NAIMarsh, Charles
Summary: A portrait of the German pastor-theologian draws on new research to cover the 1930 visit to America that shaped his perspectives on faith and moral responsibility, his achievements as an anti-Nazi activist, and the plot against Hitler that would result in his execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH MARPurvis, Karyn B. (Karyn Brand)
Summary: Offers parents practical advice on how to welcome an adopted child into their family, with tips for coping with common problems, building affection and trust, dealing with learning or behavioral disorders, and disciplining an adoptive child without harming the parent-child relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649.145 PurviJackowski, Karol.
Contents: Priesthood in the beginning -- Priesthood in the Middle Ages -- Priesthood now -- Sisterhood in the beginning -- Sisterhood in the Middle Ages -- Sisterhood now -- The priesthood of the people -- The sisterhood of all women -- The rebirth of Catholicism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 JACMarsh, Carole.
Summary: Describes the properties and observations of comets, meteors, and asteroids and explores how scientists use these phenomena to learn more about the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 523.4 MARMarsh, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.6 MarshMarsh, Henry
Summary: A leading neurosurgeon offers a revealing look into his life and work, discussing the triumphs, disasters, and regrets of a medical practice that carries grave risks and often requires agonizing decisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015