Mohn, Reinhard
Summary: A legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world's foremost businesspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174 MOHJacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)
Summary: "This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, HARRIET JACPagano, Chuck
Summary: Follows the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, who was diagnosed with leukemia three weeks into the 2012 football season, as he continued to coach from his bedside and got back into the game with the help of his team and thousands of Colts fans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 PAGPisano, Dominick
Summary: Enhanced by more than one hundred historical photographs, chronicles the development of the Bell X-1 aircraft, the craft in which a young test pilot named Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, detailing the development of the technology involved and exploring the impact of the historical achievement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.746 PISKawano, Kenji
Summary: During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northland Pub. Co. 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5403 KAWBruyneel, Johan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 BRUKohn, Howard.
Summary: A memoir of reconciliation between a man and his father as the son comes to terms with his father's farm in Saginaw Valley, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.447 KOHJoey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOEPisano, Dominick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in association with Harry N. Abrams 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 PISJoey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOESohn, Amy
Summary: "A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COMSTOCK, ANTHONY SOHJones, Johnny Joey
Summary: "In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support of his brothers and sisters in arms. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox News Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 JONFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGPassano, Eleanor Phillips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3752 PassaBolton-Fasman, Judy
Summary: ,"Judy Bolton-Fasman's fascinating saga, "Asylum : a memoir of family secrets," recounts the search for answers to the mysteries embedded in the lives of her Cuban-born mother, Matilde Alboukrek Bolton, and her elusive, Yale-educated father, K. Harold Bolton"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOLTON-FASMAN, JUDY BOLDavis, Hasan
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey, did not choose to go. Slaves did not have choices. York's contributions to the expedition, however, were invaluable. The captains came to rely on York's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YORHasan, Mehdi
Summary: "MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan isn't one to avoid arguments. He relishes them, as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value-and can also simply be fun. Arguments are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.53 HASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.53 HASJahns, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JAHKohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament)
Summary: "Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE KOHJobb, Dean
Summary: "Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 JOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 JOBFagan, Kate
Summary: "Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with...
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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 FAGAN, KATE FAGFagan, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAGAN, KATE FAGFagan, Kate
Summary: A sports journalist relates the story of Ivy League freshman and track star Maddy Holleran, who seemingly had it all and succeeded at everything she tried, but who secretly grappled with mental illness before taking her own life during the spring semester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.85 FAGWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011