Picciolini, Christian
Summary: "At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist ideology, a neo-Nazi terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. By the time he left the movement years later and was able to see clearly for the first time, Picciolini...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 PICBuckley, Veronica.
Summary: "She was born on a bitterly cold December night in 1626 and mistakenly declared a boy. On her father's death six years later she inherited the Swedish throne. She was educated as a prince, yet could eat and swear like the roughest soldier. She was painted a lesbian, a prostitute, a hermaphrodite and an atheist. She was learned but restless, progressive yet self-deceiving. Her leadership was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTINA, QUEEN BUCSuggs, Christine
Summary: "In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SUGChristman, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 CHROlson, Lynne
Summary: "In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time--an international campaign to save over a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the massive press coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the feisty French archaeologist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: The television news anchor recalls how her faith helped her rebuild her life after being in an abusive marriage, and provides advice for others in similar circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAUL, CHRISTI PAUShamir, Ruby
Summary: Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists inspire a new generation of investigative reporters as they offer tips and advice for writing stories that can make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHABausum, Ann
Summary: "The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.086 BAURobinson, Joshua
Summary: "For over fifteen years, almost any conversation about international soccer has always come back to two players--Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo--undoubtedly the greatest of their generation but with styles, attitudes, and fanbases that couldn't be more different. For millions of people around the world "Messi or Ronaldo?" isn't simply a barroom argument, or an affirmation of fandom, so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Summary: "In his most personal offering yet, Bishop Jakes tells crushing stories from his own journey-the painful experience of learning his young teenage daughter was pregnant, the agony of watching his mother succumb to Alzheimer's, and the shock and helplessness he felt when his son had a heart attack. Bishop Jakes wants to encourage you that God uses difficult, crushing experiences to prepare you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faithwords 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 JAKThachet, Prathibha
Summary: The book, The Legacy of Southist Syrian Christians: Contributions of Knanaya Community to Kerala in a Historical Perspective, was written to educate the youth and the readers about the Knanaya Catholic community and what great contributions this minority community has made for the socioeconomic advancement of Kerala, a southern state in the Indian subcontinent. The book gives a short historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris Corp 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 280 THASummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNWilson, Jessica Hooten
Summary: "An award-winning author shows that holiness means being radical in our ways of imagining the future, imagining each other, and imagining God, and that reading works of great literature can help us cultivate an imagination that moves us toward holiness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 WILSummary: Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie's family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer's fascinating life story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AGAJakes, T. D
Summary: Explains how to have faith through suffering and argues that God uses difficult experiences to prepare people for unexpected blessings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234.23 JAKPrior, Karen Swallow
Summary: "Acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. In reintroducing ancient virtues that are as relevant and essential today as ever, Prior draws on the best classical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 PRIButler, Anthea D.
Summary: "The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 BUTLively, Samuel
Summary: For Christians and conservatives, the long American culture war has increasingly come to resemble a culture siege. Yet no weapon has done more devastating damage to our beliefs and values then the one we’ve gladly ushered past our gates: Disney. For the past 30 years, Disney has enjoyed unfettered access to the hearts and minds of American consumers, and has used that extraordinary influence to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sword of Goliath 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LIVKittelstrom, Amy
Summary: "Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KITKaiser, Charles.
Summary: This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KAIWalsh, Dan.
Summary: No sooner has Shawn Collins returned home from the fighting in Europe than he is called upon to serve his country in another way as a speaker on the war bond tour. While other men might jump at the chance to travel around the country with attractive Hollywood starlets, Shawn just wants to stay home with his son Patrick and his aging father, and grieve the loss of his wife in private. When Shawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 0000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: CD WALBird, Christiane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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Summary: When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the facade of Christina's relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford. Christina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020