Storm, Morten
Summary: Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Crisis has a way of laying bare our truest selves: who we trust, which principles and impulses we heed, whose lives we deem expendable. As it ravaged millions of lives, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed and accentuated the dividing lines that had already, for decades, splintered American public life. Against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, misinformation regimes, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KLIKleinberg, Naomi.
Summary: Elmo and his Sesame Street friends all choose the right Easter hats to wear to the special Sesame Street Bunny Hop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1991. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.415 KLIKlinenberg, Eric
Summary: "An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn't seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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Summary: Explores the demographic rise in people who are living alone, drawing on interviews with young professionals, middle-aged singles, the divorced, and the elderly to reveal that they are more engaged in social and civic life than their married counterparts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 KLIGarten, Ina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 GARMarken, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.41 MARMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Create 50 gorgeous hairstyles, from casual braids to the elegant beehive, by Berlin-based top stylist Andre Martens. Following the visual step-by-step instructions by a top stylist, it is really easy to take minutes to be beautiful. Start with basic techniques, like braiding, waves and volume, and with a little practice you can change your look every day. Learn everything about hair care, tools...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2015
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Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Seeds 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MERMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MARMerton, 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 MERStrøksnes, Morten Andreas
Summary: In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.1 HALMarven, Nigel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 560 MARMerton, Thomas
Contents: v. 1. Run to the mountain / edited by Patrick Hart -- v. 2. Entering the silence / edited by Jonathan Montaldo -- v. 3. A search for solitude / edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham -- v. 4. Turning toward the world / edited by Victor A. Kramer -- v. 5. Dancing in the water of life / edited by Robert E. Daggy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERPrechtel, Martín.
Summary: "Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martín Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, gives a series of teachings on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture--how the inability that many of us have to grieve and weep properly for the dead is deeply linked with the inability to give praise for living. In modern society, grief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2015
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Morden, Taylor
Summary: Examines the story of Blockbuster Video and the last remaining store located in Bend, Oregon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC LASMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002