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Castner, Brian Dog owners Great Britain Anecdotes Iraq War, 2003-2011 Personal narratives, American Iraq War, 2003-2011 Veterans United States Biography Ordnance disposal units Iraq Ordnance disposal units United States Parsons, Charles A Phillips, Claire 1908-1960 United States United States. Air Force Officers BiographyCoster, Theo.
Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE COSLangley, Sharon
Summary: "When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LANShapton, Leanne.
Summary: A collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreation swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Shapton contemplates the sport that has shaped her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPTON, LEANNE SHARisner, Robinson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.703 RISCastner, Brian.
Summary: "When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer? In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358 CASCastner, Brian
Summary: "A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 CASDowner, Lesley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.613 DOWMosler, Layne.
Summary: "A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSLER, LAYNE MOSSemenya, Caster
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: A volunteer service dog trainer discusses her relationships with an endearing yellow Labrador puppy and its felon partner in the Prison PUP program, describing coming to terms with the inmate's past and the program's requirement to release the dog after training.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LUTTRELL LUTPosner, Gerald.
Summary: A history of the legendary music label offers profiles of the artists, many from Detroit's inner-city projects, who achieved fame, detailing their rise to success, the inability of many to handle stardom, and their conflicts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.644 POSCastner, Brian.
Summary: A memoir by a bomb-disposal veteran of the Iraq War traces his three tours of duty in the Middle East and his team's daily life-threatening efforts to stop roadside bombers, and shares the challenges he faced while reacclimating to civilian life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 CASTNER, BRIAN CASCastner, Brian.
Summary: Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 956.7044 CASTNER, BRIAN CASRosser, Kareem
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSSER, KAREEM ROSMoser, Benjamin
Summary: "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONTAG, SUSAN MOSOrner, Eric
Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and frontline defender of civil rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANK, BARNEY ORNHosler, Jay
Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC HOS (Graphic Novel)Donner, Rebecca
Summary: Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARNACK-FISH, MILDRED DONCoker, Margaret
Summary: "From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COKEisner, Peter
Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISEisner, Mark
Summary: "The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERUDA, PABLO EISComer, Meryl.
Summary: "A profoundly personal, unflinching account of Meryl Comer's husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.1 COMCoyne, Kate
Summary: "Hilarious essays about awkward run-ins with celebrities, the nature of celebrity, and what it says about our culture, by the Executive Editor of People Magazine. --Provided by the publisher"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COYNE, KATE COYCoyne, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003