Lanh, Andrew
Summary: On a sunny afternoon in Hartford, Connecticut, PI Rick Van Lam’s Vietnam-vet mentor and partner, Jimmy, and Jimmy’s old army pal, Ralph, are attacked as they walk down a city sidewalk. Ralph is killed, and Jimmy, backing up, is struck by a car. While the battered Jimmy is under the care of Rick’s landlord and friend, Gracie, where an improbable romance seems to be blooming, Rick finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANParker, Alissa
Summary: "When Alissa Parker lost her daughter Emilie in the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting, she started a life-changing journey to answer questions about faith, hope, and healing. As she sought for the peace that could help mend her broken heart, she learned how to open her heart to God's grace and find the strength to forgive."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PARKER, ALISSA PAROtfinoski, Steven
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Connecticut Colony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.6 OTFGrundset, Eric
Contents: Developing a Connecticut research strategy -- Major research centers in Connecticut and elsewhere with Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in Connecticut -- Pre-revolutionary events in the Colony of Connecticut -- General histories of the American Revolution in Connecticut -- General Revolutionary War sources -- The Government of Connecticut as a Colony and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 974.6 GRUDawidoff, Nicholas
Summary: "A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.9746 DAWKemp, Thomas Jay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Research Co. 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3746 Kemp,Abdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANGHospodar, George
Summary: "This trip resulted in their first book, Reflection on America's Great Loop, a personal, light-hearted, real-life account of the couple's travels while circumnavigating the waters of the United States and Canada. Their newest book, The Great Loop Experience--from Concept to Completion, is a comprehensive guide written to help others plan, prepare, and successfully execute their own Great Loop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 NORBulkeley, Kelly
Summary: "What if our dreams could offer spiritual insight for personal growth and social transformation? Leading dream expert Kelly Bulkeley brings us time-honored methods to stimulate our innate dreaming capacity, including the latest research on dreaming and strategies from seasoned, vivid dreamers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Shehadeh, Raja
Summary: "A moving account of one man's border crossings-both literal and figurative-by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Day War In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's occupation. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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Summary: "Presents basic information about Connecticut, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.6 TIEMorine, David E.
Summary: In January 2003, retired CEO Ramsay Peard asked longtime conservationist and friend David "Bugsy" Morine if he wanted to canoe the four-hundred-mile-long Connecticut River. Morine readily agreed--under one condition: No camping. "I'm too old to be sleeping on the ground, cooking over an open fire, and crapping in the woods," Morine told Peard, "and so are you." "Where will we stay?" Peard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GPP/Globe 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.404 MORGreenberg, Mark
Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREGrant, Russell.
Summary: Hundreds of precise definitions to help decode the messages received while sleeping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Main Street 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.63 GRAWeschcke, Carl Llewellyn
Summary: Dreams fascinate the mind and the imagination, and now those dreams can be harnessed to enrich daily life through the power of intentional dreaming. Written in part by Louis Culling and completed by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Dream ESP is the key to creating a partnership between your subconscious and conscious self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 135 WESDeBord, J. M.
Summary: Takes you step-by-step through the process of learning the language of your dreams. It is a language like any other. It has nouns (characters and settings), verbs (actions and your reactions), and adjectives (symbols and feelings). At first you may only catch the simple words and phrases, then whole sentences and paragraphs, but soon enough you will get all the subtext, humor, irony, and slang....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.63 MELNorberg, Tilda.
Summary: Tonight you may have a dream that changes your life. Dreams are otherworldly - sometimes zany, sometimes horrific, sometimes both at once. They emerge from the subconscious, a rather irrational place. The dreamscape is ideal for exploring emotions irrationally, fearlessly and freely - forcing us all to face up to who we really are. "Your dreams send you nightly invitations to grow, invitations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fresh Air Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 NORSummary: Marinara sauce runs red through the streets of New Haven in this surprising, delectable documentary which profiles three pizza restaurants, Pepe, Sally's, and Modern, that together stand as the cornerstone of the town's Italian-American heritage and connoisseurs of the tastiest incarnations of America's favorite comfort food. This mouth-watering documentary will make viewers laugh and leave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIZTougias, Robert
Summary: "The story of a year in the bird-life of a three-acre woodlot in rural Connecticut, in which the reader shadows the author month by month as he watches, listens, and chronicles the movement of the seasons through the complex and fascinating lives of the birds that come and go. Illustrated with twenty-five line drawings that mimic a 'notebook diary' style, the narrative opens the eyes of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 TOUShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHEDi Prima, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001