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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARRPatent, Dorothy Hinshaw
Summary: "In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rogers-Miller Co. 1933
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.144 BLUDray, Philip
Summary: "A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 DRAStorey, Kate
Summary: Drawing from conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, and household and security staff, this multigenerational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod provides a sweeping history of an American dynasty that has left an indelible mark on the nation's politics and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STOWharton, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Newmarket Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.2 WhartSummary: This compilation contains all six episodes of the BBC's adaptation of a sci-fi fantasy about an unassuming Englishman and his outwardly average neighbor who is actually an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hitchhikers 2002Summary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JANVilliers, Alan John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 VILMedina, Nico
Summary: Introduces the plants, animals, and peoples that co-exist within the landcapes of the Serengeti.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.7 MEDVan Zoeren, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Van Zoeren 2010
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.4635 VANCampbell, James.
Summary: A retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. Among the great World War II conflicts, the three-week battle for Saipan is often forgotten--yet historian Donald Miller calls it"as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." On the night of the battle's end, the Port Chicago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5453 CAMPallotta, Jerry
Summary: Contains facts about Tasmanian devils and wolverines, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2013
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Summary: This remarkable story shows what can happen when we choose to help. Kids will discover that we can all make a difference—no matter how big or small we are and no matter how big or small the task. Based on the New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different As Me, which sold more than a million copies worldwide and inspired the major motion picture, this book tells the true story of Denver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOOTaffa, Deborah Jackson
Summary: "Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MURBrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRIERLEY BRIBrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRIMeléndez Badillo, Jorell A.
Summary: "How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has a unique history. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo begins the book with an overview of the pre-Columbian societies and cultures that first inhabited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4635 VANMihalyi, Eric Michael.
Summary: Covers US and Canadian models of Ford F-150 (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), F-150 Heritage (2004) and F-250 Pick-Ups (1997, 1998 and 1999); Ford Expedition (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and Lincoln Navigator (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012); 2 and 4...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Ford Pick-upsMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIAldous, Richard
Summary: "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian--and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right--Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M. ALDHall, Ron
Summary: The authors of "Same Kind of Different as Me" offer new reflections and stories of hope and healing, covering such topics as faith, friendship, community outreach, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009