Rawson, Kerri
Summary: What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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Summary: Recounts the case of the Unabomber and the FBI agent that was insrumental to bringing him to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995
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Summary: "In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years, he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from Futurism to Dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SEAKlinkenborg, Verlyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf, c1990. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.797 KLIDawson, Mick
Summary: One of the world⁰́₉s most experienced ocean rowers details his two Atlantic Ocean crossings and his three attempts to row across the North Pacific Ocean, discussing how he overcame exhaustion; dealt with painful injury; and battled the elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 KLIDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: Uses the author's own experiences with obsessive-compulsive disorder to discuss the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of OCD, and includes advice on finding help and living a fuller, happier life with the disorder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.8 DOTDotson, Bob.
Summary: The host of the NBC "Today Show" shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DOTHood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Granted total and unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning director's archives, the author, drawing on hundreds of interviews with the artist and those who have worked closely with him, chronicles his attempt to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking though his production company American Zoetrope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD WASBrandelius, Jerilyn Lee.
Summary: Explores the personal side of the group's experiences over the last three decades as well as their live performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 BRAManson, Marilyn.
Summary: Discusses the life and influences of the gothic/death metal musician, and includes a tour diary from his band's controversial "Dead to the World" tour
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 1999
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Summary: For more than 50 years, Detroit attorney Ernie Goodman fought the good fight for social justice, among other things defending sit-down strikers during the 1930s auto strikes, and litigating important labor and civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. This scholarly but quite readable biography presents a detailed portrait of Goodman's life, showing how this child of Jewish immigrants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOODMAN, ERNIE BABLawton, Georgina
Summary: Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perenial 2021
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Summary: Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: Traces the story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the manhunt for founder Sam Israel, who bet his final millions on a federal-run "secret market" society of clandestine bankers, shady European nobles, and spies tied to a mysterious cabal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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Summary: "Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: Outlines an engaged approach to child-rearing that is based on strategies for fostering child creativity and confidence, describing the author's experiences with such methods as bribing, conditioning psychology, and placebo medications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 CONWalls, Laura Dassow
Summary: Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID WALO'Brien, Phillips Payson
Summary: "The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEAHY, WILLIAM D OBRWade, Mary Dodson.
Summary: Christopher Columbus was looking for a faster trade route to China. Instead of finding spices, he opened the way to a part of the world no one in Europe even knew existed! The well-organized chapters help students identify key details while the photographs, timelines and other text features encourage students to make connections between historical events and enable students to better understand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015