Stern, Jane.
Summary: The author describes how she survived severe depression by becoming an EMT, describing her training under an ex-Marine, the confusion of her first calls, and her new vocation's ability to reveal the secrets of human nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.025 STEStern, Jane.
Summary: "In this memoir, Jane and Michael Stern tell what it's like to eat everywhere across the U.S.A. Driving more than three million miles, eating twelve meals a day, they discover not only the pleasure of biscuits and gravy and cherry pie a la mode, but also a world of cooks, customers, and fellow roadfood devotees for whom good food is one of life's essentials."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 394.1 STEStern, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 STEStern, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 STESturm, James.
Summary: Contains a story in which a magical cartooning elf helps a princess make a comic book, while teaching the reader to draw their own comic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STUSturm, James
Summary: Presents a fictionalized version of the life of Satchel Paige, who began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s and who, although kept out of the major leagues for years by Jim Crow laws, went on to become a world-class athlete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Jump at the Sun 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAISturm, James
Summary: A portrait of the people and their dreams that make up this country are presented in a trilogy--"The Revival," "Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight," and "The Golem's Mighty Swing"--that focuses on less sensational times in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SturmBaldwin, James
Summary: The story of the friendship between writer Baldwin and editor Stein describes the early days of their life-long companionship in their North Bronx high school and their shared literary endeavors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BALSummary: An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2005
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GUNSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Ahern, Shauna James.
Contents: A brand-name childhood -- On my own -- The ten noble tastes -- Free to be you and me, gluten-free -- Vegetarians, please avert your eyes -- Going against the grain -- The pleasure of vegetables -- Luscious and sumptuous fruit -- Truly tasting my life -- Guilty pleasures -- Feeling comfortable in the kitchen -- Life, gluten-free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.399 AHESummary: Meet Josephine, Reena, Marie, Jeanette, Lou, and Terry. These intelligent and articulate women once had secure, active and fulfilling lives. That is until one day when everything unraveled. Now living out of their cars or in cheap hotels, they exist entirely under the radar, too proud to go to shelter or to even receive public assistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ITSummary: Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeStark, James Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. M. Kelley 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744 StarkFogler, Janet.
Contents: How memory works -- You can improve your memory -- Understanding the components of memory -- How we remember -- Why we forget -- Let's review -- How memory changes as we age -- What changes? What doesn't -- Problems with encoding -- Problems with recall -- Factors that affect memory -- You and your memory : a self-inventory -- Take a look at your effort and attitude -- Could your mood be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.67 FOGAhern, Shauna James.
Summary: Following the James Beard Award-winning Gluten-Free Girl Every Day, Shauna James Ahern and her husband, Daniel Ahern, have created a collection of comfort-food classics that are all unbelievably and amazingly gluten-free. Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting, Chicken-Fried Steak, New England Clam Chowder -- the country's most beloved dishes, reinvented. Of course, it wouldn't be true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: "When she was diagnosed with celiac disease, Shauna set out to discover and delight in the best food she could eat. Then she met Daniel, a talented chef who had spent his career cooking at great restaurants across the country. They fell in love at the grocery store, the farmers' market, and in front of the stove. Soon Daniel was creating spectacular dishes, stunning meals that happened to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5638 AHEJames, Steven
Summary: A criminal mastermind's chilling terrorist plot forces FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers to the brink in the latest thriller from bestselling novelist Steven James. When a senator's son takes his own life and posts the video live online, Agent Bowers is drawn into a complex web of lies that begins to threaten the people he loves the most. As he races to unravel the mystery behind the suicide and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMSteyn, Mark.
Contents: Prologue: the stupidity of broke -- The new Rome: the decaying city -- Undreaming America: serfing USA -- The new Athens: the drowning city -- Decline: American idyll -- The new Britannia: the depraved city -- Fall: beyond the green zone -- The new Jerusalem: the city besieged -- After: a letter from the post-American world -- Epilogue: the hope of audacity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 STEJames, Steven
Summary: All too often, following the "rules" of writing can constrict rather than inspire you. With Story Trumps Structure, you can shed those rules - about three-act structure, rising action, outlining, and more - to craft your most powerful, emotional, and gripping stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word JamesStern, Jessica
Summary: "Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.6 STESteyn, Mark.
Summary: Includes the author's Maclean's columns which provoked lawsuits from the Canadian Islamic Congress, as well as other essays in response to the legal action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stockade Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.443 STECullum, Jared
Summary: "Katya and her Meema are spending another summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen... an enormous kodiak bear with a gentle heart and a knack for fishing. But when Katya must suddenly return home to Seattle, the two are torn apart, leaving Kodi to do whatever it takes to reunite with his fragile human friend....
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2020