Burks, Ruth Coker
Summary: "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling tohelp. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURKS, RUTH COKER BURCraker, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rivercrest House 1979
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Summary: After his first Cubs game when Rich Cohen was eight, his father asked him to make a promise. "Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not win," he explained, "and because of that, a Cubs fan will have a diminished life determined by low expectations. That team will screw up your life." Here he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days-- not just what happened, but...
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Summary: "An exploration of parenting, sports, and the suburbs, all through the sport of children's ice hockey"--
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Summary: The author describes growing up on the Great Lakes, relating how a relationship forged in adolescence shaped and transformed his life, and reexamines that friendship from the perspective of adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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Summary: The bittersweet story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. A strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, it is also the story of immigrants, sugar,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: Over three months in the summer before the Civil War, New York suffered a massacre, a flight, a manhunt, and a trial, all of which kept the nation riveted and remade Albert Hicks, the last pirate of New York, into a celebrated antihero. For years Hicks operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime. In 1860 he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 COHCohen, Rich.
Summary: "In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city's sewer tunnels to sabotage German outposts. Abba's chief lieutenants were two teenage girls, Vitka...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 COHFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Contents: Today you are a man, go get me a drink -- Jew Street -- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance -- 2120 South Michigan -- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick -- The record man pays for our sins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 COHSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans. Her story is told with lyricism and pathos by Gary D. Schmidt, one of the most celebrated writers for children in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SOGinsburg, Ruth Bader
Summary: Details the biography and career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
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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 COKSchenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 PATSummary: Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan from its birth in 1866 to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KUSummary: These legendary documentaries have only been released on VHS until now. Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981. Parts II and III were no less extraordinary and unprecedented. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as historically significant works of art....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2015
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Boyer, Crispin
Summary: Amazing facts, sites, and activities related to each state in the U.S., as well as car games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 912.73 BOYCohen, David
Summary: Traces three generations of the Bush family's lives and political careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.578 AXCSummary: Using a fitness ball, "Brooke and Gunnar demonstrate 10 of the best exercises to work your body from head to toe"--Container insert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Guthy-Renker 2003
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Summary: The coach of the Chicago Bulls discusses his paradigm of leadership based on Eastern and Native American principles, and how he has applied it during his years with the NBA team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995