Kerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KERLithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITJohnson, Katherine G.
Summary: In 2015, at the age of ninety-seven, Johnson became a global celebrity for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flight into space. In her memoir Johnson provides a record of racial history that reveals the influential role Black educators played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like herself, and brings into focus the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, KATHERINE JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON JOHJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Summary: When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration, the result was "The Red Book," a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. However, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 150.19 JUNRimer, Graeme.
Summary: Provides details about and illustrations of a variety of firearms, from muskets and pistols, to machine guns and artillery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.4 RIMWarnock, Raphael G.
Summary: "Before Raphael Warnock became a pastor and the first Black senator from Georgia, he was a little boy whose father told him to get up, get dressed, put on his shoes, and get ready! So that's what he did, along every step of his journey. From his work boots to his marching band shoes to his shiny lace-ups, Senator Reverend Warnock found the right shoes to fit his feet and to carry him toward his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: Corduroy has so many fun things to do at the library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E FreNewton, J. H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Caldwell 1973
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 975.41 NEWStine, G. Harry (George Harry)
Summary: A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2004
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Summary: A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HenneHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HenBH&G
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Publisher / Publication Date: MEREDITH CORP 1983
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 BH&GMcClelland, H. G. (Harry G.)
Summary: Every angler for trout will admit that the qualities which go to make one successful in his craft are judgment, skill, and knowledge of the trout's habits and powers, and of the insects on which he feeds; and are not these the very qualities which go to make a successful fly dresser, and which are developed in the practice of the art? It is true that fly fishing and fly dressing each require a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Offices of the Fishing Gazette 1949
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 MCCSheftall, M. G. (Mordecai G.)
Summary: A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one's life to defend the homeland. Now, with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SHECrampton, W. G. (William G.)
Summary: Displays the many shapes, sizes and colors of flags and banners the world over and explores the history, meaning, and uses of different types of flags.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.92 CRAHart, D. G. (Darryl G.)
Summary: "This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history--from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and São Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the social and political developments that enabled Calvinism to establish a global presence. Hart's approach features significant episodes in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 284 HARJones, Doug (G. Douglas)
Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 JONSummary: From environmental pollution to their efforts to dismantle social security for working Americans, the Koch Brothers have launched a large network, attacking our American values. Join Senator Bernie Sanders, Van Jones and Katrina vanden Heuvel in this shocking and dramatic investigation of how the Billionaire Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on covert attacks that destroy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KOCClear, Helen G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.G. Clear 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 COMCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHHendrickson, G. E. (Gerth Edison)
Summary: This completely revised and updated edition of the indispensable original offers more information on why Michigan is such a great place for all fly fishers. Twelve Classic Trout Streams also features new material---for example, information on hatches, including a hatch schedule chart; a list of ten flies that every Michigan angler should have; and equipment (line weight, rod length, etc.) for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2009
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Summary: To honor fallen comrades, a journalist and a soldier return to Vietnam battlefields more than 30 years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MOO1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.704 MOO
Thoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THOJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Summary: This book is parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2010