George, Alex.
Summary: A Good American is a story of immigrant hope. Set in a fictional Midwestern town and spanning more than a century, the novel tells the story of three generations of the Meisenheimer family. Beginning with an improbable love affair ignited by the power of song, the story follows an unorthodox young couple as they flee to America in search of a new life together. From prohibition to the Kennedy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOGeorge, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012George, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find its place among the colorful residents of its new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Cengage Learning 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEOMaraniss, David
Summary: "A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 MARSwamp, Jake
Summary: Adapted especially for children by a Mohawk chief who has shared this inspiring vision of thanksgiving all over the world, these words originated with the Native people of upstate New York and Canada, and are based on the belief that the natural world is a precious and rare gift that should be cherished.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SWAHarris, C. S.
Summary: A story of coming-of-age in Civil War-torn Louisiana. This is a heart-wrenching story of loss and survival; of the bonds that form amongst women and children left alone to face the hardships, depravations, and dangers of war; and of one unforgettable girl's slow and painful recognition of the good and evil that exists within us all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SAFSmith, Michael Patrick F.
Summary: "A vivid window into the world of working class men and the value of hard labor, set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Shiftless and unsatisfied in his life, Michael Patrick Smith decided in his mid-thirties to seek out the hardest work he could find, to see if he could do it. He wanted to be a person, unlike his father, who knew how to work and get things done. He found himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, MICHAEL PATRICK F. SMIFlinn, Kathleen
Summary: This family history with recipes offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her best-seller The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. From a Route 66 trek to San Francisco to their Michigan farm to the shores of Florida, humor and adventure defines her family even in the worst of times. You'll savor Uncle Clarence's divine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Flinn FlinnHyde, Dayton O.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.74442 HYDMoore, Stephen L.
Summary: In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOOLukianoff, Greg
Summary: "Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Butler, Robert Olen.
Contents: Open arms -- Mr. Green -- The trip back -- Fairy tale -- Crickets -- Letters from my father -- Love -- Mid-autumn -- In the clearing -- A ghost story -- Snow -- Relic -- Preparation -- The American couple -- A good scent from a strange mountain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTOrton, Vrest
Summary: "How to alter unsatisfactory fireplaces & to build new ones in the 18th century fashion" --cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alan C. Hood & Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 697 ORTKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "The Good American is a story about courage, intense loneliness, and the State Department's golden age during the late Cold War and post-Cold War. It is also a celebration of ground level reporting and getting a worm's eye view of crisis zones. Robert Gersony, a high-school dropout later awarded a bronze star in Vietnam, spent over four decades on the ground in virtually every war and natural...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERSONY, ROBERT KAPSummary: An anthology of poetic works celebrates the American landscape with diverse selections by such contributors as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.008 KEISen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENReynolds, Donna
Summary: "Some people believe Americans should make an effort to buy goods made in the United States; others say this it does not matter where something is made. Thanks to allowances, many children are consumers in their own right, and even those who are not will one day have to make ethical decisions about where their money is spent. Through alternating viewpoints, complemented by fact boxes and a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social Point ReynoldsLetts, Elizabeth
Summary: "Traces the lesser-known efforts of Hitler to build a master race of the finest purebred horses and the heroic achievements of American soldiers to rescue imperiled stolen equines from a hidden Czechoslovakian farm during a 1945 battle between Third Reich and Allied forces,"--NoveList. In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LETGreen Day (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1, Side A. 2000 light years away -- Longview -- Welcome to paradise -- Basket case -- When I come around -- She -- Side B. Brain stew -- Hitchin' a ride -- Good riddance (time of your life) -- Minority -- Warning -- American idiot.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise Records 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Lindop, Edmund.
Summary: Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the fifth decade of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.917 LINOndara, J. S.
Summary: Known for his emotive singing and literate narratives, Nairobi-born singer-songwriter J. S. Ondara emerged in his adopted home of Minneapolis, Minnesota, around 2016. Inspired by Bob Dylan, the largely self-taught Ondara paid his dues on the Minneapolis folk scene before issuing his Verve debut.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ONDWhite, April
Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022