Glass, Brent D
Summary: Profiles fifty sites across the United States that trace the cultural history of the country, discussing the people and events that led to each site's importance, from the National Mall in D.C. to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 GLASummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDPritchard, D. Brine (David Brine)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.34 PRIGrass, Günter
Summary: The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 GRAGross, Stuart D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [n.p. 1962
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 GROSummary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JANBliss, Debbie
Summary: This ultimate guide to essential knitting techniques from world-renowned knitter Debbie Bliss is set to become the staple how-to book for new and experienced knitters alike. Starting with the most basic but essential information on knitting equipment, holding the needles, and how to cast on, Debbie shares her lifetime of core techniques and time-saving tips, including shaping by changing needle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark, an imprint of Sterling Publishing 2015
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Summary: A poem describing Johnny Appleseed's appearance and actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.K. McElderry 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Benet 2001Various authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitSummary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 SEMSummary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEFBaier, Bret
Summary: November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BAILash, Joseph P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Book Club 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVLET FAMILY LASGless, Sharon
Summary: "APPARENTLY THERE WERE COMPLAINTS is both a deeply personal story about Gless's complicated family and her struggles with alcoholism and fear of romantic commitment and a juicy, hilarious tell-all about Hollywood and Sharon's encounters with some of the industry's biggest stars. Gless puts it all out on the page in the same way she has lived--never with moderation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLESS, SHARON GLEOrent, Wendy
Summary: Chronicles the history and mystery of several centuries of plague including bioweapons programs initiated by the former Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5732 ORESummary: The fly: Experimental scientist Andre Delambre attempts to transfer matter through space, using himself as the test subject. But things go horrifically wrong when a common housefly buzzes into the machine, resulting in two grotesque man-fly hybrids. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, Andre desperately hopes that he, his wife Helene and his brother Francois can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FLYGarrison, James B.
Contents: With history as a guide. Stenton -- Pennsbury Manor -- House in Pennsylvania -- Great Valley Mill (Richard Haughton House) -- Buena Vista (Governor C. Douglas Buck House) -- Green Bank (A. Thornton Baker Jr. House) -- Edward Browning residence -- St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley -- Originality : the early colonial revival. Burnswark (Dr. R.B. Okie, Sr. House) -- Longvue (Percy Wilson Jr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 GARBren, Paulina
Summary: "The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York to work in the dazzling new skyscrapers, they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4097 BREBrant, John
Summary: Julius Achon is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Uganda. He was captured at 12 and turned into a boy soldier; then miraculously found a career as one of the world's foremost middle-distance runners. How these life jumps happened is told here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHON, JULIUS BRAHansen, Brant
Summary: "Are we giving our young men the wrong message about biblical manhood? Popular Christian radio host and podcaster gives guys an inspiring vision and practical wisdom for being who they were uniquely created to be--no matter their personality, interests, or abilities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 HANGrass, Günter
Summary: Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRASS, GUNTER GRAHolcomb, Brent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Historical Press 1977