McCourt, Frank.
Summary: The author's memoir of his journey from impoverished Irish immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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Summary: Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: "'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCOURT, FRANK MCCSaltz, Joanna
Summary: "The first dessert recipe collection from the editors of the wildly popular site and magazine, Delish"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.81 SALO'Reilly, Bill.
Summary: Makes charges about how politicians, the clergy, and families are failing to protect those in their care, presenting strong statements about personal responsibility and self-reliance in today's uncertain world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.931 O'RESchwartz, Marie Jenkins
Summary: Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation's capital. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 SCHSchulman, Sarah
Summary: In this book, the author, a playwright and social critic, explores the family, the first place where all people, straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. For it is within the family that homophobia begins to control people's lives, whether as perpetrators or recipients. Written in the tradition of Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which reconceptualized rape and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 SCHMcGraw, Seamus
Summary: "This book is a deep dive into mass shootings--events in which one or more gunmen shoot more than four people--which have become increasingly common, particularly in America, over the last six decades. The book opens on a personal note, describing an event in which the author failed to protect an innocent man from violence, which he likens to our national inability to act and protect each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MCGIsay, Dave
Summary: "StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project's rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bond and capture the moment at which individuals become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ISAMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: The third installment of McCourt's memoirs (after Angela's Ashes and 'Tis) covers his thirty-year teaching career in New York City's public high schools.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 371.1 McCouLippincott, Rachael
Summary: Stella y Will tienen la misma enfermedad pulmonar, el el msmo hospital. Cuando se enamoran, recuperan la alegría de vivir, per hay una problema: por el peligro de contagio, no pueden acercarse a menos de cinco pies sin arriesgar sus vidas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nube de Tinta 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH LIPLewton, Kelli
Summary: "With party themes like 'Unicorns Trending,' 'Boho Beach,' 'Modern Pumpkin' and 'Party Bling,' the suggestions in this guide are guaranteed to take your parties to the next level. Each chapter offers a party blueprint with tips from event designer Kevin Miller, a full menu and recipes. Use the plan in its entirety or take what inspires you"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.4 LEWMaddow, Rachel.
Summary: Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.2 MADOlivier, Reginald L.
Summary: Short biographies of French-Canadian settlers in Canada from 1618 to 1700.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Everton Publishers 1972
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 OLICoe, Alexis
Summary: "In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused aninternational incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE COECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History US Pres CoeCannizzaro, Mary
Summary: "Learn how to make T-shirt quilts that don't necessarily look like T-shirt quilts in this guide to making quilts from T-shirts and other clothing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 CANGaffigan, Jim.
Summary: "In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 GAFCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GAFFIGAN GAFSummary: Come join Dunder Mifflin for a holiday celebration like no other with The Office: Complete Christmas Collection! Developed by Primetime Emmy Award winner Greg Daniels, relive all 7 of the wackiest workplace holiday episodes in TV history. Featuring "Christmas Party", "A Benihana Christmas", "Moroccan Christmas", "Secret Santa", "Classy Christmas", "Christmas Wishes" and "Dwight Christmas", 'tis...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OFFGuiyeoni
Summary: Jung-won wears a funny dragon suit, while working at the amusement park, and pours soda on Eun-gyu, because of his taunts. A short while later, Jung-won finds out that Eun-gyu has moved into the house next to hers. Eun-gyu now threatens to tell Jung-won’s parents that she works part-time at a local mart. To keep Eun-gyu quiet, Jung-won agrees to carry his guitar for a week. Jung-won then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bandibooks 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN KORMcGrath, Tim
Summary: "Monroe lived a life defined by revolutions. From the battlefields of the War for Independence, to his ambassadorship in Paris in the days of the guillotine, to his own role in the creation of Congress's partisan divide, he was a man who embodied the restless spirit of the age. He was never one to back down from a fight, whether it be with Alexander Hamilton, with whom he nearly engaged in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MONROE MCGCena, John
Summary: "'Tis the season for holiday fun at the junkyard with Elbow Grease and his monster truck family! But when a blizzard blows in on Christmas Eve, how will Santa find them? Elbow Grease must figure out a way to make this Christmas the brightest one yet" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: BRDGuiyeoni
Summary: Jung-won wears a funny dragon suit, while working at the amusement park, and pours soda on Eun-gyu, because of his taunts. A short while later, Jung-won finds out that Eun-gyu has moved into the house next to hers. Eun-gyu now threatens to tell Jung-won’s parents that she works part-time at a local mart. To keep Eun-gyu quiet, Jung-won agrees to carry his guitar for a week. Jung-won then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bandibooks 0000
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Summary: "In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America's most consequential document with a curious note, pledging "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 RANShaw, John (John Allen)
Summary: Near the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, a homeless Dust Bowl refugee named Woody Guthrie originally drafted "This Land Is Your Land" as an anthem that encompassed the tough realities of those dark times--and as a rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." But the song that Guthrie despised had its own complexities. Irving Berlin had risen from homelessness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2013