Kaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAPNiequist, Shauna.
Summary: A personal memoir explores the intertwined natures of happiness and sadness, discussing how bitter experiences balance out the sweetness in life and how change can be an opportunity for growth and a function of God's graciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 NIEMeyer, Michael J.
Summary: In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan, China. Unequipped but eager, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and per a Communist dean's orders jumped into explaining to his students the Enlightenment, the stock market, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEYER, MICHAEL J. MEYAdamson, Thomas K.
Summary: Presents information on tae kwon do, including basic skills, training, competitions, and safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone/Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.815 ADARaff McCaulau, Lily.
Summary: "A beautifully written and contrarian narrative about what it means to hunt in America today"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 RAFButcher, Barbara
Summary: "Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, BARBARA BUTBell, W. Kamau
Summary: "You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in the New York Times, which called him "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell's gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, W. KAMAU BELJacobson, Sidney.
Contents: The motorcycle diarist -- The plight of Latin America, 1953 -- Back on the road -- Cuba -- Victory -- Crisis after crisis -- The revolutionary -- The Congo misadventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUEVARA, ERNESTO JACWiersbe, Warren W.
Contents: Previously published as two separate titles : Living with the giants, 1993 and Victorious Christians you should know, 1984.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270 WIEBateson, Mary Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1994
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 318.5 BATAxelrod, Howard
Summary: "On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod left his dorm-room to play a pick-up game of basketball. In the skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and severed his optic nerve. Permanently blinded in his right eye, Axelrod returned a week later to the same dorm-room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AXELROD, HOWARD AXEJohnson, Ann Donegan.
Summary: A brief biography emphasizing the importance of learning in the life of the scientist who was awarded the Nobel prize for her work in chemistry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Value Communications 1978
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CURIE JOHGarner, Art.
Summary: "Just before high noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 stopped for the first time in history. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery accident, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner expertly reconstructs the events, circumstances, and fatal decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day. Recalling a bygone era when drivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 GARAnderson, Jon Lee
Summary: "The graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara. The Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist. Adapted from Jon Lee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE ANDLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: "Viva la revolucion! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019