Summary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEMacLeish, Archibald
Summary: Job's classic challenge in modern terms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 MACArchibald, Brett
Summary: "In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald set off with his friends on a dream surf charter trip off the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia. It quickly became a nightmare: in the middle of a storm, suffering from severe food poisoning, Brett leaned overboard--and blacked out. He awoke in the raging sea. No one had seen him fall, and no one heard his shouts for help. He watched his boat sail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARCHIBALD, BRETT ARCArchibald, John
Summary: On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. "My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my best,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARCHIBALD, JOHN ARCGomez, Vernona.
Summary: A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story. Born to a small-town California ranching family, the youngest of eight, Vernon "Lefty" Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality right across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty baffled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: Traces the story of the legendary USS Leviathan, a German luxury liner seized by the U.S. Navy and converted into an armed troop carrier that transported thousands of American forces to Europe after the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 HERGracie, Colonel Archibald
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Publisher / Publication Date: ACADP 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 GRABenjamin, Vernon
Summary: A history of the Hudson River Valley, which, because of its unique geography and proximity to Canada, was the site of many battles, chronicles its discovery all the way to its rise as a center of culture and commerce that is still evident today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BENHart, Archibald D.
Contents: Where has all our pleasure gone? -- The many pathways to pleasure -- Pleasure or happiness? -- Stress and anhedonia -- Saving our children from anhedonia -- When pleasure becomes a hidden addiction -- Sexual anhedonia -- Step 1: seek the right form of pleasure -- Step 2: recapture the joy of little things -- Step 3: control your adrenaline -- Step 4: use humor to enhance your happiness -- Step...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.42 HARArchbold, Rick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.1332 ARCKatz, Vernon.
Summary: The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while others convey its poetry at the cost of literal meaning. This new translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes fills the need for an Upanishads that is clear, simple, and insightful-yet remains faithful to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 294.5 KATVernon, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 VEROpie, Iona Archibald
Summary: Collects a selection of classic Mother Goose nursery rhymes that highlight counting and numbers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD OPIRussell, Colin Archibald.
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 537.09 RUSBerton, Pierre
Summary: The definitive account of the Klondike gold rush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.91 BERMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Seeds 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MERVernon, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.113 VERVernon, Ursula
Summary: It's Little Red Riding Hood as you've never seen her before in this funny, feminist spin on the fairy tale, from award-winning author Ursula Vernon Most monsters know better than to mess with Princess Harriet Hamsterbone. She's a fearsome warrior, an accomplished jouster, and is so convincing that she once converted a beastly Ogrecat to vegetarianism. So why would a pack of weasel-wolf monsters...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD VERVernon, Diana.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 VERKinietz, W. Vernon (William Vernon)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1965
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1947
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 970.3 KINLowe, Keanon
Summary: "The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LOWE LOWMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: McCall Pub. Co. 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.873 MERVernon, Andy
Summary: For many gardeners, the low-key colors of the naturalistic gardening movement are just too quiet. Andy Vernon, a self-professed flower fanatic, is one of these gardeners. In The Flower- Powered Garden, he urges everyone to embrace one of the most joyful and important parts of a garden—color. The Flower-Powered Garden highlights perennials and annuals that pack a punch, and 15 color combinations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2018