Kayihura, Edouard
Summary: In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees do not endorse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 KAYMathis-Lilley, Ben
Summary: "A fan's search for the truth about American history, human nature, and whether Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh will keep his job"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 MATMiller, Ben
Summary: "The Aliens Are Coming! is a refreshingly clear, hugely entertaining guide to the search for alien life. Miller looks everywhere for insight, from the Big Bang's sea of energy that somehow became living matter, to the equations that tell us Earth is not so rare, to the clues bacteria hold to how life started. And he makes the case that our growing understanding of life itself will help us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 MILSummary: "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CONSummary: Provides an overview of the history of dance in the Baroque period and explores the elements that help illuminate the historical preservation of dance. Examines the creative process through dance notation, arm embellishments, spatial patterns, the dance-music relationship, and artistic interpretation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dancetime Production 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3 ARTKimball, Christopher
Summary: "In Milk Street Noodles, the Milk Street team shines a spotlight on the world's most beloved noodle dishes, from spaghetti to pad see ew, from ramen to spaetzle. This collection of 125 weeknight-ready dishes offer up world of flavor in a bowl--with recipes perfectly adapted to American home kitchens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.822 KIMSloane, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.73 SloanSummary: Gates of Heaven: uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry. Vernon, Florida: travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GATMeller, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.62 MELSloane, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.73 SLOMillner, Denene
Summary: The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" -Ebony For almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically acclaimed website MyBrownBaby,com. The site, hailed as a "must-read" by the New York Times, speaks to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden, an Agate imprint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MILDiller, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 DILMilles, Harriet.
Summary: This book looks at Japanese, and examines where it is spoken, who speaks it, what alphabet the language is written in, and other interesting facts including introductions on how to say key phrases in Japanese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ROSOleszewski, Wes
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977 OLEOleszewski, Wes
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 910.45 OLEOleszewski, Wes
Summary: True shipwreck stories supported by the meticulous research of author Wes Oleszewski. In many cases the reader will feel that they are actually participating in the story being told. Antoher great read by Oleszewski.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2016
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Summary: "Those who had yet to be born when World War II raged cannot imagine the fear, anger, suffering and sacrifice experienced by those who witnessed and fought in that conflict. Not only was freedom threatened, but the very fabric of human civilization was in danger. In order to preserve their very existence, free people had to mobilize and fight the evil that threatened to envelope the world. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 2018
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Summary: A follow up to the wildy successful WWII and the Great Lakes. This book involves a more personal and up close look at obscure topics and people relating to the Great Lakes and the war effort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 OLEMillar, Jeff
Summary: Includes more than 600 selections from the syndicated cartoon that follows the misadventures of a football player turned sportscaster and his friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheed, Andrews, and McMeel 1978
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MILMüller, Jörg
Summary: Sometimes the answers are easy for parents to come up with ... and sometimes they're a little more complicated. That's what this book is for! When Boys and Girls Become Men and Women should accompany children (and their parents) on the long road to adulthood and allows both groups to explore this new territory together, step by step. Everyone looks different, and everyone has their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.661 MULDavis, Wes.
Summary: In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for German domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the eccentric band of British intelligence officers who would stand in their way, conducting audacious sabotage operations in the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 DAVMoore, Wes
Summary: "Wes Moore's remarkable bestseller The Other Wes Moore ends when Wes completes his journey from a fatherless delinquent to college graduate and heads off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. But what happens next? Next, he had to figure out the answer to the question: What is your work? More than finding a job, he had to find the work he was meant to do. For the next decade, Wes traced a path...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOOOleszewski, Wes
Summary: "Exploring the history of the ships of the Great Lakes and the people who worked with them, "All Hands On Deck" will take you from the 1830s to 2010. In between you will meet people who have been long forgotten and travel along on their adventures. You will also meet some who are alive and well and you will see their stories unfold. From the old wooden shipwreck left nearly forgotten on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2011