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Summary: "With grace, guile, and unstoppable power, big cats are admired for their speed and strength. Although they are related to house cats, these magnificent creatures are nothing like our pets! Join Sibert Medalist and naturalist Nic Bishop for a close-up look at lions, tigers, cheetahs, and more."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.75 BISBishop, Nic
Summary: It's an exciting morning for Joey the baby koala, high above the ground, in the shade of a eucalyptus tree, Joey the baby koala wakes up hungry! Crawling over his sleeping mom, Joey goes exploring ... only to find that his mother's arms is where he's supposed to be after all. Featuring simple text and stunning photographs of a rare interaction between a koala and her little one. Includes fun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BISBishop, Nic
Summary: Introduces snakes and provides information on their physical characteristics, how they hunt, and why some snakes are poisonous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Nonfiction 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.96 BISBarlow, Vic, 1955-
Summary: There has long been a disconnect between the retriever training methods in the United Kingdom and in North America. British Retriever Trials are primarily a test of the dog's skill as a game finder, while American Field Trials are a test of the handling techniques of the owner. The Brits teach their dogs to find every bird, while American handlers are training for an event in which tracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Creek Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BARBishop, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funk & Wagnalls 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 BISBishop, Jim
Summary: Describes the last twenty-four hours of President Lincoln's life and how his assassin spent those hours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 BISSummary: Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KORCowley, Joy.
Summary: Experience close-up the many moods (and colors) of chameleons. One brave chameleon ventures from the safety of his tree in search of a new home. On his journey, he meets other rain forest animals, not all of them friendly! Alas, the new tree he chooses is already home to another chameleon. She dons her aggressive coloring until she's sure that the visitor is friend, not foe. Then they welcome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.956 COWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 597.956 COWSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TUSKEGEEHansen, Neil Graham
Summary: In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. Flying for the CIA's secret airline was a dream come true. Air America's operations were unknown. Its schedules were irregular. Its pilots were shadow people. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. I had already been a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Publishing Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANSEN, NEIL GRAHAM HANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War HansenSummary: "Rare and fascinating films preserved in the museum's archives. Many have never been released to the public before and are presented here, complete and uncut, for the very first time. ... [These 24 training and public information films cover a] range of subjects from ditching procedures for Halifax bomber crews ... to the best way to rescue crashed fighter pilots from their cockpits. There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROYSheff, Nic.
Summary: Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.29 SHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHECompton, Nic
Summary: "This beautifully produced compendium gives you a knot challenge for every day of the year. With hundreds to choose from, all colour coded by use, you can work through the book from start to finish, gradually building on your knowledge as you go, or alternatively dipping in and out for your daily knotting fix"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adlard Coles 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.88 COMDunlop, Nic
Summary: In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Twenty years later, not one member had been held accountable for the genocide. Haunted by the image of one of them, Comrade Duch, photographer Nic Dunlop set out to bring him to life, and thereby to account. "I needed to understand how a seemingly ordinary man ... could turn into one of the worst mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 DUNSheff, Nic.
Summary: The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHECole, Nat King 1917-1965
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Music Inc. 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM ColeBrady, Tim
Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017