Summary: In many ways, the Browns are like any other middle-American family: they eat, play, and pray together, squabble and hug, striving to raise happy, well-adjusted children while keeping their relationship loving and strong. The difference is, there are five adults in the openly polygamous Brown marriage--Kody and his four wives--who among them have seventeen children. Since TLC first launched its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROSummary: "Examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing military agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOESummary: Lifelong friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, two comedians famous for pranking local news stations on live television as the fake strongman duo 'Chop & Steele,' find themselves in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate after their latest morning show stunt goes viral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOEMather, Cam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 MATWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL WarMazer, Anne.
Summary: Two fine writers put their heads together and came up with an equally fine guide to their craft for beginners. Avoiding traditional chapters, the coauthors address issues by turns in short personal takes. Mazer speaks to beginnings, for example, while Potter tackles endings; and both have diverting things to say about everything that happens in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.02 MAZMontgomery, Sy
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: After her retirement from film and raising her two sons, actress Audrey Hepburn used her fame and influence to capture the media's attention as she charged into the most dangerous places on earth to save children and mothers in dangerous situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEPBURN, AUDREY MATWarrick, Joby
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 WARMayer, John D.
Summary: "The groundbreaking psychologist argues that understanding personality is the key to our well-being We are all curious about what people are thinking and what makes them tick. This urge to understand others helps us to adapt successfully to the world around us. Now, in Personal Intelligence, the renowned psychologist John D. Mayer reveals that we all possess a type of intelligence--a master...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 MAYKeplinger, Kody
Summary: Even though Pamela Isley spends most of her time caring for a few small plants and does not trust other people, when cute goth girl Alice Oh comes into her life she starts to open up, but the dark secrets from home could destroy the one person who ever cared about Pamela, or as her mom called her, Ivy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 POIMather, Christine.
Summary: Celebrates the traditions of the American Indians in 400 photographs of pottery, jewelry, blankets, baskets, masks, totem poles, dances and powwows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Potter 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.1 MATMather, Craig
Summary: Follows the adventures of Ratty, Badger, and Mole as they are swept up in the impulsive Toad's insatiable need for speed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2021
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WINRosen, Jody
Summary: "The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.227 ROSSokolower, Jody
Summary: "Palestinian youth and the fight for their village Silwan is a Palestinian village located just outside the ancient walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Determined to Stay: Voices of Silwan is a moving story of a village and its people. As Silwani youth and community members share their lives with us, their village becomes an easily accessible way to understand Palestinian history and current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 SOKHetzer, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 HETManger, Stewart
Summary: Stewart Manger is regarded for his bespoke interiors in which exquisite craftsmanship and a classic-meets-modern flair. This rising star's first monograph showcases his imaginative ways to create vibrant and stylish rooms. Having apprenticed with celebrated New York interior designers such as David Easton, Bunny Williams, and David Kleinberg, Manger recently launched his own firm and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 747 MANMelzer, Nils
Summary: "Nils Melzer's compelling investigation shows how, through secrecy, impunity and, crucially, public indifference, unchecked power risks annihilating Western democracy and the rule of law. The case of Julian Assange could set a chilling precedent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2022
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Summary: "From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACHER, TOM MACMailer, Norman
Summary: The first posthumous publication from this literary icon, "Mind of an Outlaw" collects Mailer's most important and representative work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 MAIMenzer, Joe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 MENTeresa, Mother
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Publisher / Publication Date: Servant Publications 1993