Shevory, Thomas C.
Summary: The Great Lakes are a remarkable repository of millions of years of complex geological transformations and of a considerably shorter, crowded span of human history. Over the course of four summers, Thomas Shevory rode a bicycle along their shores, taking in the stories the lakes tell--of nature's grandeur and decay, of economic might and squandered promise, of exploration, colonization,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 SHEThomas, Sherry (Sherry M.)
Summary: "A most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes's doorstep: Moriarty himself. Moriarty fears that tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth. Charlotte and Mrs. Watson travel to a remote community of occult practitioners where Moriarty's daughter was last seen, a place full of lies and liars. Meanwhile, Charlotte's sister Livia tries to make sense of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorrndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M THONelson, Sherry C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4543 NELHolt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland)
Summary: The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 HOLMann, Thomas C. (Thomas Clifford)
Summary: From the Blurb: When you get right down to it: where's the best place to tell your story or state what you stood for? Average old-time New Englanders and a number of modern ones believed that the logical place to say their say was on their gravestones. Their often stunning frankness has produced three centuries of highly personal comments on religion, politics, death, wars, love, marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Greene Press 1962
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 MANFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 FOSFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 FOSFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: Demonstrates how to make everyday reading more rewarding by helping readers understand the symbols, themes, narrative devices and forms, and contexts of literary works, in an edition geared toward young readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808 FOSThomas, C. D.
Summary: It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In "Inheritors of the Earth", renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back. Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 THODent, Thomas C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.043 DENFoster, Thomas C.
Summary: What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character - and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word FosterMitchell, C. Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 720.108 MITGannon, Thomas C.
Summary: "Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANNON, THOMAS C. GANJefferson, Thomas
Summary: HIST Thomas Jefferson, best known as the author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and as our third president, was an extraordinarily accomplished man with wide-ranging interests. From 1784 to 1789, he was America's envoy to France, during which time he also traveled widely on the European continent. From his extensive writings during these years, editors Wilson and Stanton (both with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 JEFSummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREContents: Preface / David Haynes -- Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi -- Story maps / Robert Archibald -- An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays -- Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson -- Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook -- "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. NorthernSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeFischer, Thomas
Summary: With this opulent volume, Thomas Fischer presents a comprehensive and unique exploration of the Roman military of the imperial era. With over 600 illustrations, the costumes, weapons and equipment of the Roman army are explored in detail using archaeological finds dating from the late Republic to Late Antiquity, and from all over the Roman Empire. The buildings and fortifications associated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 FISTranströmer, Tomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.71 TRAContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Season in San Francisco -- Season in Southern California -- Street scene / by Elmer Rice -- Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff -- Wings over Europe / Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne -- Holiday / by Philip Barry -- Front page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Let us be gay / by Rachel Crothers -- Machinal / by Sophie Treadwell --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1929
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: This guide to the outdoors provides advice and instructions on camping, building shelters, finding water, and cooking outdoors. Some activities may require adult supervision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2009
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Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRASummary: Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005