Abraham, Philip

Summary: Relates the courage of John F. Kennedy during World War II, especially in saving his crew when they were stranded in the South Pacific after their PT boat was rammed by a Japanese warship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5459 ABR

Abraham

Summary: Presents the channeled spirit communications of "Abraham" on how to achieve balance in life and enjoy the journey with joy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.93 Hicks

Summary: A wonderful collection of essays written by today's queer heroes, featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. In 2016, model and queer activist Jack Guinness decided that the LGBTQ+ community desperately needed to be reminded of its long and glorious history of stardom, and he was spurred to action. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUE

Millard, Candice.

Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 Mil

Kendrick, Paul

Summary: Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEN

Summary: Examines the history, science, and business of fireworks. Covers the origin of fireworks in China and their further development in England and Italy. Visits the "fireworks capital of the U.S.", New Castle, Pennsylvania, home of the Zambellis, the self-proclaimed "first family of fireworks."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIR

Hansen, Neil Graham

Summary: In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. Flying for the CIA's secret airline was a dream come true. Air America's operations were unknown. Its schedules were irregular. Its pilots were shadow people. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. I had already been a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Publishing Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANSEN, NEIL GRAHAM HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War Hansen

Kunhardt, Philip B.

Summary: Photographic biography of Abraham Lincoln with more than 700 illustrations, most of them drawn from the Meserve collection.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

Lustgarten, Abrahm.

Summary: Discusses how the CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne, helmed one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history only to have it fall apart due to deadly accidents and environmental crimes, culminating in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7382 LUS

Abrahams, Kyria.

Summary: A stand-up comedian who was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness describes how her childhood was haunted by perpetual doomsday prophecies about an imminent apocalypse in which her non-believing neighbors and schoolmates were doomed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.9 ABR

Tyson, Neil deGrasse

Summary: Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 TYS

Chii

Summary: "A diary comic with an upbeat, adorable flair that tells the charming tale of Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition-as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now, Chii is about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRI

Summary: Profiles five children with autism, their parents, and acting coach Elaine Hill as they take on the enterprise of a full-length stage production.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2008

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AUT

Rajchman, Chil.

Summary: One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the author tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka workers' revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RAJCHMAN, CHIL RAJ

Summary: When Gonzo's extraterrestrial relatives plan a visit, the government captures him in order to find out when his relatives will arrive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MUP

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: "The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7092 WHI

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LIN

Ebrahim, Zak

Summary: "What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayed Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to "Remember El-Sayed Nosair." In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TED Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBRAHIM, ZAK EBR

Maslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold)

Summary: "Maslow's theories of self-actualization and the hierarchy of human needs are the cornerstone of modern humanistic psychology, and no book so well epitomizes those ideas as this classic. Its influence continues to spread, more than a quarter century after its author's death, beyond psychology and throughout the humanities, social theory, and business management theory. Its enduring popularity...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.25 MAS

Branham, Leigh.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 BRA

Kalanithi, Paul

Summary: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KALANITHI, PAUL Kal