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Comic books, strips, etc Authorship Drugs and popular music Lee, Stan 1922-2018 Lutteurs États-Unis Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Marvel Comics Group. United States World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Juvenile literature Wrestlers Wrestlers United States Biography Juvenile literatureLeddy, Kyleigh
Summary: "All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEDBorth, Teddy
Summary: Charlotte Flair is the daughter of the WWE's only two-time hall of famer, Ric Flair. Read about how Charlotte got into wrestling and how her matches started a women's revolution in WWE. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful and colorful photographs showing some of Charlotte's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards, Bolt is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BORBorth, Teddy
Summary: The New Day has become WWE's longest reigning tag team champions. Discover the journeys of Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston. What started as a disaster became one of the most fun teams in all of professional wrestling. The simple text is joined with beautiful photographs showing some of The New Day's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BORBorth, Teddy
Summary: Dean Ambrose has wrestled all over the world for over 14 years. Discover the journey that led Ambrose to becoming one of WWE's top stars and earning every championship they have to offer. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful and colorful photographs showing some of Abrose's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards, Bolt is an imprint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BORBorth, Teddy
Summary: "Discover how Roman Reigns went from college football player to WWE's big dog, claiming his yard from The Undertaker at Wrestlemania. This title will go through Reigns' time in NXT, The Shield, and his championship wins along the way. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful photographs showing some of Reigns' best moments in the ring."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BORSimon, Eddy
Summary: "This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is done with the collaboration of the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views his life through the eyes of the three women who shared his life for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on and off companion, the other two his muses, one of which was Camille Claudel, a well-recognized sculptor herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SIMEveritt, Anthony
Summary: "The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERO EVEHayes, Paddy
Summary: In Queen of Spies, Paddy Hayes recounts the fascinating story of the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II to the Cold War through the eyes of Daphne Park, one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. He provides the reader with one of the most intimate narratives yet of how the modern SIS actually went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARK, DAPHNE HAYDadey, Debbie
Summary: "Growing up in a small Hungarian town, Kati Karikó was curious about everything. As an adult, she channeled her curiosity into her work as a scientist. An mRNA vaccine had never been made before, and she faced frequent criticism and was told by other scientists she would never succeed. After many years of hard work and dedication, she figured out how to use mRNA to make a vaccine--and when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KARGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 GADDanby, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 769.31 DANVardy, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230.044 VARDaley, Mark
Summary: "A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he had the answer. But when Ethan and Logan, an adorable infant and a precocious toddler, entered into their lives, Mark and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: Presents a revelatory portrait of white nationalism that traces the lives of three women supporters whose respective experiences with the far right shaped their radicalization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DAREl Mahdy, Christine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.014 ELMGaechter, Darcy.
Summary: Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Amazon Woman shows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life they've imagined. This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaetcher's 35th birthday. She sold her successful outdoor adventure business, upsetting her partner and boyfriend of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAECHTER, DARCY GAEDarby, Jean
Summary: Traces the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr., focusing on facts that are not as widely known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINMoulton, Candy
Summary: A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOSEPH, Chief MoultonDodds Pennock, Caroline
Summary: "A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PENWhite, Arisa
Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MASTroy, Sandy.
Summary: "Captain Trips depicts the life, work, and philosophy of this nonconformist rock legend, counterculture hero, and symbol of the Sixties. It contains exclusive interviews with Phil Lesh, David Nelson, Rock Scully, Jorma Kaukonen, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (Jerry's second wife and perhaps closest friend), Jerry himself, and many others. As lead guitarist of the Dead, Garcia has played before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARCIA, JERRY TRORady, Martyn C.
Summary: "Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies, savvy marriages, and military conquest on their improbable ascent, becoming the continent's most powerful dynasty. By the mid-fifteenth century, the Habsburgs controlled of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the early sixteenth century, their lands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 RADSchmidt, Randy (Randy L.)
Summary: An intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARPENTER, KAREN SCHFingeroth, Danny
Summary: "The definitive biography of the beloved-often controversial-co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019