Gordon, Olivia

Summary: What happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby's life don't go as planned? How have advances in modern medicine and perinatal genetics redefined our perceptions of what is possible?The First Breath by Olivia Gordon is a powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveiling the intense patient-doctor...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bluebird 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 GOR

Summary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INT

Summary: "In the days immediately following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen people, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman began filming with students and families whose lives were forever altered"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFT

Wainwright, Loudon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WAI

Gray, Lendon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PRIMEDIA Equine Network 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Gray

Lordon, Claire

Summary: "Something is wrong with Claire, but she doesn't know what. Nobody does, not even her doctors. All she wants is to return to her happy and athletic teenage self. But her accumulating symptoms--chronic fatigue, pounding headaches, weight gain--hint that there's something not right inside Claire's body. Claire's high school experience becomes filled with MRIs, visits to the Mayo Clinic, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 LOR

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MID

Landon, Margaret

Summary: The story of an English governess at the court of King Mongkut of Siam, in the mid-nineteenth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONOWENS, ANNA LAN

Landon, Fred

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1944

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.03 LAN
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 LAN

Landon, Brooks.

Summary: Presents basic writing strategies and tools for the composition of impressive and effective sentences, drawing on examples from authors who are masters of the form.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 LAN

Wainwright, Loudon

Summary: The influential singer, songwriter, and actor shares meditative personal reflections on relationships and creativity, tracing the struggles with alcoholism, infidelity, and competitiveness that have challenged his celebrity family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAINWRIGHT, LOUDON, III WAI

Oliva, Alejandra

Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 OLI

Comstock, Lyndon.

Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COM

Blake, Wendon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.45 BLA

Lindop, Edmund.

Summary: Provides accounts of key events that occurred during the 1950s in the areas of science, technology, transportation, the economy, society, literature, art and architecture, fashion, stage and screen, music, sports and recreation, and war, and includes photographs and primary sources.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.921 LIN

Monson, Marianne

Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MON

Landon, Brooks.

Contents: Pt. 1. Lecture 1. A sequence of words -- Lecture 2. Grammar and rhetoric -- Lecture 3. Propositions and meaning -- Lecture 4. How sentences grow -- Lecture 5. Adjectival steps -- Lecture 6. The rhythm of cumulative syntax -- Lecture 7. Direction of modification -- Lecture 8. Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed patterns -- Lecture 9. Coordinate cumulative sentences -- Lecture 10. Subordinate and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.042 LAN PART 1
Call number: CD 808.042 LAN PART 2

Landon, Cheryl

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.45 WIL

Seltzer, Olivia

Summary: "A guide to the recent history of the world that's led to where we are today, so Gen Z readers can have context for the news they see and hear every day"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306 SE;

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306 SEL

Tsakiris, Olivia

Summary: "An enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life-its charming culture and sublime food-captured in 100 delectable recipes and captivating stories from the Greek-American Tsakiris family, accompanied by more than 100 visually stunning full-color photographs by James Beard award-winning photographer Romas Foord"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5918 TSA

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Jonson, Ben

Summary: This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Paperbacks 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 Jonson

Lofton, LouAnn.

Summary: "Investing isn't a man's world anymore--and this book shows why that's a good thing for individual portfolios, Wall Street, and the world's financial system"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.6 LOF

Loxton, Howard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: P. Hamlyn 1970

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 625.2 LOX