McDonnell, David K.
Summary: Because the first McDonnells were mercenaries often called to service in all corners of Ireland, the clan's history is intertwined with the history of the entire island. Descendants of these McDonnell mercenaries included nobles and farmers, landlords and peasants, soldiers and poets, coffin ship victims and survivors, Protestants and Catholics, constables and revolutionaries. Some immigrated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Burrowing Owl Press 2013
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Davids, Sharice
Summary: Rich, vivid illustrations by Ojibwe Woodland artist Pawis-Steckley are delivered in a graphic style that honors Indigenous people. The bold artwork adds impact to the compelling text. (Kirkus starred review) The prose is reminiscent of an inspirational speech ("Everyone's path looks different"), with a message of service that includes fun biographical facts, such as her love of Bruce Lee....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DAVDavids, Sharice
Summary: This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVMcConnell, David B. (David Barry)
Summary: A history of the state of Michigan designed for use as a junior high or high school textbook. Includes photographs, maps, artwork, and study questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hillsdale Educational Publishers 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIO 977.4 MCCO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of hastily trained green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of Chosin Reservoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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Summary: From bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell, the untold story of World War II's first unit of special operations combat swimmers—precursors of today's US Navy SEALs
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Connell, Laura K.
Summary: We are sometimes our own worst enemies, sabotaging our success and with it our chance for lasting happiness and opportunities for personal and professional fulfillment. It's Not Your Fault helps readers uncover the subconscious reasons they hold themselves back. These blind spots were often created in childhood as coping mechanisms in response to trauma. Rather than teaching tactics that ignore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications, Inc. 2023
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Summary: Members of the Ranger and Airborne troops from World War II tell their own stories of dropping behind enemy lines, in a series of eyewitness accounts of the war in North Africa and Europe based on more than six hundred interviews with the veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000
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Summary: "The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it developed an array of James Bond-like new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Celebrated military historian and bestselling author Patrick O'Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself and recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated and the eight Body Bearers, and the sergeant who had chosen the one body to be interred, solemnly united. Brilliantly researched, vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War O'DonnellO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich's main supply artery--the Brenner Pass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2008
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Summary: "On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation. After losing the Battle of Brooklyn, the British had Washington's army trapped against the East River. The fate of the Revolution rested heavily on the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Serving side-by-side in one of the country's first diverse units, they pulled off an "American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 O'DOSummary: When Doreen Green, also known as Squirrel Girl, volunteers to teach a high school computer programming class, she discovers that one of her students is Kamala Khan, who moonlights as the superhero Ms. Marvel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MARGrayson, Devin K.
Summary: "Gifted doctor Cecelia Cobbina was once held in the highest regard by peers and patients alike. But that was before an incident in Africa changed her life forever. Now with the ability to process thoughts at the speed of light, she faces the unimaginable burden of literally having an answer for everything. As the truth of her origin slowly comes into focus, Cecelia must overcome her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H1, an imprint of Humanoid, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OMNGrayson, Devin K.
Summary: When Hera and Chopper arrive at the Fekunda Outpost, they find the successful farming society overrun with imperials. They help the citizens to rebel and take back their farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2018
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Contents: ch. 1. Cosa nostra familia -- ch. 2. Cosa nostra thicker than blood -- ch. 3. Cosa nostra black sheep -- ch. 4. Cosa nostra autonomy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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Summary: Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001
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Cohen, David K.
Summary: "Ever since Socrates, teaching has been a difficult and even dangerous profession. Why is good teaching such hard work? In this provocative, witty, and sometimes rueful book, David K. Cohen writes about the predicaments that teachers face. Like therapists, social workers, and pastors, teachers embark on a mission of human improvement. They aim to deepen knowledge, broaden understanding,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.102 COHShipler, David K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHIShipler, David K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 SHIJohnson, David K.
Summary: The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least as frequently, if more discreetly: "Information has come to the attention of the Civil Service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.6 JOHLynch, David K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535 LYNRandall, David K.
Summary: From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY's struggling American Museum of Natural History.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019