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Summary: Offers an in-depth biography of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, written with the full blessing of the man known to all as the Savior of Wall St.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIMON, JAMIE MCDReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYPhillips, Peter
Summary: Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.92 PHISummary: 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Ottaviani, Jim
Summary: Introduces the lives and work of three eminent primatologists, sharing insights into their educations under mentor Louis Leakey while exploring their pivotal contributions to twentieth-century natural science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, First Second 2015
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Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, MARIE SIMSummary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Set in the African bush: a tracker seeks one lion, thanks to lessons that can teach us all how to live--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.97 VARSummary: A thrilling behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons's highly anticipated first Haute Couture collection as Christian Dior's new Artistic Director. Beautifully melding the everyday, pressure-filled components of fashion with an elegant reverence for the history of Dior, Tcheng's colorful homage is nothing short of magical.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIOBeckman, Jonathan
Summary: Describes the Affair of the Diamond Necklace and how it further tarnished the already poor reputation of Marie Antoinette among the French people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of teh Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.04 BECDuckworth, Angela
Summary: Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur genius grant recipient Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own story as the daughter of a scientist who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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Summary: The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALVSikes, Amie
Summary: In their first book, the Junk Gypsies--sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show--combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson. Amie and Jolie Sikes, the Thelma and Louise of the design world, are the Junk Gypsies: a family with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SIKHale, Christy
Summary: "The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad), and information about the people involved and events leading up to and after the court case ruling"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 379.2 HALJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILWest, Tracey
Summary: Catch step-by-step secret tips on drawing your favorite Pokémon, like Pikachu, Togepi, Chikorita, Meowth, Pichu, Houndour, Lugia, Cyndaquil, and more! Plus, draw bonus poses of Pokémon in action, and create your own battle scenes! You'll be a Pokémon-drawing-Master in no time!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2002
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Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.64 DUNJamie, Kathleen
Summary: "In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 JAMOliver, Jamie
Summary: "Oliver returns with his 10th cookbook, this one a colorful and quirky look at down-home American cooking. Traveling to the cities of New York and Los Angeles, as well as Louisiana, Georgia, Arizona, and Wyoming, Oliver paints a somewhat unbalanced portrait of American cuisine"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 OLIRaskin, Jamie B.
Summary: The Maryland congressman tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and his family's--as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in the Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
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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: 921 RASKIN, JAMIE RASMiles, Kathryn
Summary: The dramatic true tale of a boy born at sea during the Irish Potato famine and the "coffin ship" that saved him and thousands of others from one of the world's greatest humanitarian crises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5081 MILHammer, Peter J.
Summary: The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith, authors Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 347.732 KEIÅstot, Moa Backe
Summary: "Ánte's life has been steeped in Sámi tradition. It is indisputable to him that he, an only child, will keep working with the reindeer. But there is something else too, something tugging at him. His feelings for his best friend Erik have changed, grown into something bigger. Ánte is so aware of Erik and his body in relation to his own; everything he does matters so much. What would people say...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ASTPalka, Yvonne
Summary: "Creative children and curious adults will have fun learning the magic of sumi-e with the simple techniques illustrated in Super Simple Sumi-e. Learn how to make various sumi-e brush strokes and how to create animals, flowers, and bamboo with this friendly, easy-to-follow guide. Sumi-e means "ink picture" in Japanese. "Sumi" means ink and "e" means painting or picture. Since similar styles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot 2018