Brown, John Mason
Contents: Imprisoned in a wagon -- How not to fight Indians -- More elbowroom -- History comes knocking -- The secret door -- The sting of wasps -- Alone in Kentucky -- The fire is lighted -- War on the frontier -- The Transylvania dream -- The storm breaks -- An eventful Sunday -- Captured by the Shawnees -- Chief Blackfish's "son" -- A summer of suspense -- Days of terror -- White man's cruelty -- Red...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOOSt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 921 ST. CLAIR, CHIP ST. CCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCSummary: In 2002, journalist Asra Nomani glimpsed Islamic extremism up close when friend and former Wall Street Journal colleague, Daniel Pearl, was murdered in Pakistan. Upon returning to West Virginia, she noted warning signs of the same violent culture escalating at the local mosque in Morgantown: exclusionism against women, intolerance toward non-believers, and suspicion of the West. She began a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: "The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TARMinutemen (Musical group)
Contents: D's car jam -- Anxious mo-fo -- Theatre is the life of you -- Viet Nam -- Cohesion -- It's expected I'm gone -- #1 hit song -- Two beads at the end -- Do you want new wave or do you want the truth? -- Shit from an old notebook -- Nature without man -- One reporter's opinion -- Mike's car jam -- Political song for Michael Jackson to sing -- Maybe partying will help -- Toadies -- Retreat -- The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: SST Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MINContents: SIBERIA AND ALASKA : Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Stellar -- The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane -- CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA : Alarms amongst the Uzbeks / Alexander Burnes -- On the roof of the world / John Wood -- Lhasa beckons / Regis-Evariste Huc -- Exploring Angkhor / Henri Mouhot -- Over the Karakorams / Francis Edward Younghusband -- Trials in Tibet / Ekai Kawaguchi -- At...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 MAMO'Connell, Jack
Summary: Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young King Hussein, who would become America's most reliable Middle East ally. Over time, their bond of trust and friendship deepened. In 1967, O'Connell tipped off Hussein that Israel would invade Egypt the next morning. Later, as Hussein's Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 O'CONNELL, JACK O'COO'Connor, Garry
Summary: "The definitive biography of Sir Ian McKellen from an acclaimed biographer In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime before his visit to Middle Earth. He made his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCKELLEN, IAN OCOSarlot, Raymond R.
Summary: Presents a history of the well-known Los Angeles hotel, along with stories and anecdotes of the famous actors and celebrities who have stayed there from its opening in 1929 up to the present day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SARHoldsworth, Robert Houghton
Summary: The photographs and scans in this work are intended to preserve, even if only in facsimile form, a body of William Sanders Holdsworth art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 759.1774 HOLDSWORTH, WILLIAM SANDERS HOLTarshis, Lauren
Summary: The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022