Friel, Bob.
Summary: Relates the story of professional thief Colton Harris-Moore, a neglected child who eluded authorities, gained a cult following, and used self-taught knowledge and skills to pilot stolen planes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FRIMontgomery, Sy
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: A memoir containing chapters on Elmore Leonard, Ernie Harwell, Sue Marx, Lt. Milo Radulovich, Joe Dumars, Denise Ilitch, J.P. McCarthy, Carl Oglesby, Jennifer Granholm, Jack Kevorkian, George Pierrot, Tom Wilson, Charlie Gehringer, Ron Monchak, Bill Davidson, and Ed Cole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seattle Book Company 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920 HANStephenson, Jane
Summary: "An easy-reference guide to the nutritional data for over 4,500 foods, including information on setting nutrition goals and maintaining a balanced diet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.202 STEMoore, 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 MOOMoon, Ben
Summary: "Denali is the story of the friendship between the author, Ben Moon, and his dog, Denali, as they traveled the American west, and of how Denali supported the author as he battled cancer, and how the author dealt with the cancer illness and death of his dog"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOON, BEN MOOCooke, Pan
Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024
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Contents: General Motors -- Buick Regal -- Chevrolet Lumina -- Chevrolet Monte Carlo -- Pontiac Grand Prix -- Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 GENERAL MOTORS 1988-1995Moore, Michael Scott
Summary: "With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave,, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MOOMoore, Honor
Summary: "A daughter's memoir of her mother evolves beautifully into a narrative of the sweeping changes in women's lives in the twentieth century. Our Revolution, vivid and rich, reads like a nineteenth-century novel as we follow the love story of a woman and herfamily through the twentieth-century civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements. Born into Boston society in 1923, Jenny Moore rebelled by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MOORowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHAndrews, Elizabeth
Summary: This book introduces readers to the forest giant of the north woods. The moose's habitat, life cycle, and diet are explored in clear, easy-to-read text with bright photos and infographics. QR Codes in the books give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Cody Koala is an imprint of Pop!, a division...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pop!, a division of ABDO 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J591.518 ANDPrior, Karen Swallow
Summary: "With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the womanwriter who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-CenturyBritish society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORE, HANNAH PRIBaer, T. H.
Summary: Volume is the amount of space a liquid takes up in a container. This engaging book takes a look at how to measure volume and why its useful. Whether using the displacement method or simple containers marked with measurements, there are many different ways to measure liquids. Readers will learn to measure volume in both U.S. and International measurements to further their learning and ensure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 516.1 BAECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Number BaerFinlay, Victoria
Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FINDavis, Lynn
Summary: Presents the story of how an eccentric young artist became the inventor of the first telegraph system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MORColfer, Chris
Summary: "A combination travel guide, encyclopedia, and exciting fan compendium, this ultimate guidebook includes sections such as "Who's Who," "Places to Go," and "Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Things" that explore the backgrounds and histories of the many characters, places, and magic items throughout the beloved Land of Stories series. This book also includes bonus chapters, insider information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION COLMoore, Michael
Summary: Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump. At one moment he's an 11-year old boy stuck on a Senate elevator with Bobby Kennedy and the next moment he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Changing planes in Vienna, he escapes death at the hands of the terrorist Abu Nidal. All of this is the stuff that makes for great fiction, but every one of these stories is true and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MOORE, MICHAEL MooCampbell, Bebe Moore
Summary: The author tells of growing up in a female household with a fiercely loving mother and grandmother but spending summers with her divorced father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 CAMMoore, Andy.
Summary: Nearly 1700 still banks are presented in full color. Information included on most of the banks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1984
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 688.72 MOOMoore, Thurston
Summary: Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds--the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. But more than anything, he wanted to make music--to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire. His dream came to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, THURSTON MOOMoore, Wes
Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MOORE, WES MOOKuklinski, Joanne Myrechuck.
Summary: Jan Majercak was born 22 May 1865 in Lapsze Wyzne, Poland. His parents were Joannes Majerzcak and Anna Nemecz. He married Barbora Penxa (1862-1945) in Budapest, Hungary. He died in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Their son, Andrew Joseph Myrechuck (1893-1937) married Katherine Ann Wanichek in 1916 in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Includes Wanechek, Vanicek, Vandehey and related families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marc & Joanne Kuklinski 2006