Horner, Christopher C.
Summary: In Red Hot Lies, bestselling author Christopher Horner--himself the target of Greenpeace dirty tricks and alarmist smears--exposes the dark underbelly of the environmental movement: from power-hungry politicians blacklisting scientists who reject global warming alarmism to mainstream media outlets that openly reject the notion of "balance."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.739 HORRobbins, Christopher (Christopher C.)
Summary: Row, row, row your boat . . . in Michigan! The sights and scenery of Michigan spring to life in this adorable twist on the favorite children’s song. Each die-cut page of the layered board book reveals an imaginary boat sailing past Lake Michigan, Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, Windmill Island, and more! A delightful children’s introduction to the iconic places of Michigan. And when you’re...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius 2022
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Summary: For over 400 years, Shakespeares plays have enthralled, moved, and enriched each new generation of readers and theatergoers. How to Read and Understand Shakespeare builds the skills that allow you to reach your own understanding of the plays, to deeply comprehend Shakespeare's transcendent poetic language, the spellbinding world of his great characters and stories, and his revelatory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2013
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Summary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox : Lightstorm Entertainment 2010
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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI AVAHoover, Brett C.
Summary: Comfort is a universal human need. Hoover explores what comfort means-- and how it means different things to different people. He delves into the psychological, emotional, and spiritual facets of comfort and offers ways to rediscover it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128.4 HOOGorham, Christopher C.
Summary: The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became a real power behind national policies critical to America winning World War II and prospering afterwards, chronicles her extraordinary career as FDR's special envoy to Europe during the war and an adviser to five presidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOFFMAN, ANNA ROSENBERG GORMiller, Christopher C.
Summary: "President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden. If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trump's final Secretary of Defense, elevated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHRISTOPHER C. MILWhipple, Chris (Christopher C.)
Summary: "The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country. Since George Washington, presidents have depended on the advice of key confidants. But it wasn't until the twentieth century that the White House chief of staff became the second most powerful job in government. Unelected and unconfirmed, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 353 WHIHoover, Brett C.
Summary: Discover what drives our never-ending human quest for comfort. From Comfort : The human story of comfort is stretches of tranquility interrupted by periods of struggle. Rest and run, play and work, weekend and workday, celebration and crisis-our lives are built on such cycles. We learn that life is both beloved ease and uncomfortable challenge, often in succession, sometimes shifting without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Burt, Christopher C.
Summary: There are few thrills as exciting as weather at its worst. Extensively illustrated with color photographs of some of the most extreme weather ever captured on camera, dozens of color maps, and tables of weather records for over three hundred U.S. cities, this book also includes historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.5 BURSummary: This edition covers mechanical specifications and services procedures on popular American and Canadian 1967-73 makes and models, as well as Volkswagen. Tune up data and wheel alignment for 1946-66 models also included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motor 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 American 1967-73Summary: This edition covers mechanical specifications and service procedures for popular American and Canadian makes and models, for model years 1968-74. Tune up data and wheel alignment for 1946-67 models included as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motor 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 American 1968-74Summary: "The Doctor arrives on the paradise planet of Deva Loka to find a colonial mission on the verge of collapse. Several of its members have vanished into the jungle without a trace, leaving the survivors suspicious and paranoid. The mystery deepens as it becomes clear that the planet's native inhabitants, the Kinda, possess hitherto unsuspected powers that challenge human understanding. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCEllison, Ralph
Summary: "An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisible Man, with insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work. Over six decades (1933 to 1993), Ralph Ellison's extensive and revealing correspondence remarkably details his aspirations and anxieties, confidence and uncertainties throughout his personal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELLISON, RALPH ELLHitchens, Christopher
Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 HITAdams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher)
Contents: Pt. I. Ecological papers. 1. Isle Royale as a biotic environment, by C.C. Adams. 2. The ecological relations of the invertebrate fauna of Isle Royale, Michigan, by H.A. Gleason. 3. The ecological distribution of the birds of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, by Otto McCreary. 4. The fall migration of birds at Washington Harbor, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, by M.M. Peet. 5. The ecological succession of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford co., state printers 1909
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 574.50977 ADAChivers, C. J. (Christopher John)
Summary: "Almost 2.5 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers has reported from both fronts from the beginning, walking side by side with combatants for more than a dozen years. He describes the experience of war today as it is endured by those most at risk--the camaraderie and profound sense of purpose, alongside courage, frustration, and moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 CHIMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANSummary: Examines the many facets of America's most extraordinary founding father. Politician, diplomat, scientist, printer, and civic improver, Franklin influenced every aspect of American life, from his own time to the present. This book, designed to accompany the traveling Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary exhibition celebrating Franklin's 300th birthday, includes essays by ten prominent scholars that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 BENChristopher, Matt
Summary: "Dewey London and Bundy Neel can't wait for the new summer soccer league to begin until they learn about the contest to be team captain." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of Abdo 2018