Faulkner, Harris
Summary: Growing up in a military family, journalist and news anchor Harris Faulkner experienced firsthand how success in life is rooted in the knowledge, integrity, and duty that came from her military surroundings. She shares the formative lessons in leadership and work ethic she learned from a lifetime spent absorbing the military mindset, and offers recommendations for how all families can benefit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, HARRIS FAUFaulkner, Harris
Summary: "From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection. From the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, believers testify to how God inspired hope even when all seemed lost."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox News Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.3 FAUBlotner, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM BLOParini, Jay.
Summary: Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century author of "As I Lay Dying," who struggled to rise above such challenges as a difficult marriage and alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM PARKallen, Stuart A.
Summary: Uses primary source documents to follow Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on his search for the Seven Cities of Cibola.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 KALMiller, Dean.
Summary: The fast-paced world of professional auto racing is fun and fiercely competitive. Those at the top worked long and hard to get there, perfecting their turns, tuning their cars just right, and finding lucrative sponsorships so they can enter the best races. Readers find out how many pro auto racers start out on the track through detailed main content and additional informative sidebars....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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Summary: Chronicles the life and career of Juan Ponce de Léon, tracing his travels in the Carribbean and his discoveries of Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 WAXBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYWebb, Brandon.
Summary: "Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Making of a Navy SEAL provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WEBRollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has fascinated readers nearly as much as the great novels, but Faulkner has remained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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Summary: The name of this book may be kind of misleading, beause what started out to be a weekly Fish Report in the local paper turned into tales from a U.P. (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) Game Warden. It kind of became a weekly story about working as a Game Warden and growing up in God's Country, Michigan's U.P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALBlair, E. A. (Edward A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scrivenery Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAAnderson, Dianna E.
Summary: "For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve their own discourse, born out of the work of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALEdwards, Donald A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.A. Edwards 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 RDWMcChrystal, Stanley A.
Summary: A candid memoir by the four-star general discusses his early service years, contributions as a commander in Afghanistan, and relationships with heads of state and unpredictable enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 MCCSilverman, Susan (Susan A.)
Summary: "What does it mean to be a mother? Professional woman? Wife and partner? Sister, daughter ...? How do we discover the true meaning of identity? As a child, Susan Silverman was surrounded with a loving family--even if her parents weren't happily married, they were devoted to their kids. Not a terribly faith-based family, social justice was the religion practiced at the Silvermans' home. Susan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SILVERMAN SILWilson, A. N.
Summary: Wilson explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria's coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage to Prince Albert and his pivotal influence even after death and her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with her Highland servant John Brown, all set against the backdrop of a momentous epoch in Britain's history -- and the world's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VICTORIA WILVerdelle, A. J.
Summary: "The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precarious journey toward creativity that is the writer's life, and tells the compelling story of her relationship with Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of this towering yet enigmatic cultural icon. With the publication of her debut novel The Good Negress in 1995, A. J. Verdelle became an overnight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VERDELLE VERMarks, Paul A
Summary: "Paul Marks M.D., President Emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, attributes the elusive nature of cancers cure to its inherently anarchic processes. There can be no hope for a miracle cure when defective cells use a myriad of tools to succeed in their relentless assaults. There are many ways cancers get started, and turn healthy cell division and growth into lethal attacks....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 MARRees, Paul A.
Summary: Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god. The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records, a figure surpassed only by the Beatles, while "Stairway to Heaven," the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLANT, ROBERT REEWilson, A. N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1990
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Summary: Examines the culture and history of ancient Mayas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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Summary: An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African-Americans in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1994