Jones, Johnny Joey
Summary: "In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support of his brothers and sisters in arms. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox News Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 JONWillan, Anne
Summary: "Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food WillanHilton, Paris
Summary: In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILTON, PARIS HILDoan, Jenny
Summary: "Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny's corner shop -- with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back -- to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the U.S. and the headquarters of Jenny's world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB DOAN DOAGroom, Winston
Summary: "In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to the remarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 GROSisson, Stéphanie Roth
Summary: As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel’s journey as scientist and writer, speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAROlson, Elsie
Summary: This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Taylor Swift. Readers learn about Swift's early life, her award-winning success in both country and pop music, and her philanthropic work. Features include a timeline, glossary, fun facts, online resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2022
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Summary: Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump's then girlfriend. As their friendship deepened over lunches, black-tie parties, and giggle sessions in the penthouse at Trump Tower, Wolkoff watched the newest Mrs. Trump manage her highly scrutinized marriage. After Trump won the 2016 election, Wolkoff was recruited to help produce the 58th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLKOFF, STEPHANIE WINSTON WOLDiakité, Jason Timbuktu
Summary: Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds--part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man's-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DIANelson, Willie
Summary: "Music legend Willie Nelson and his sister and longtime bandmate Bobbie Nelson tell the story of their Texas childhood, and how music kept their family strong in good times and bad"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NELBernard, Walter
Summary: "For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders' perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors look back on and analyze some of their most important and compelling projects, from the creation of New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BERWilson, Jennifer Lane
Summary: "Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But the dresses women had to wear at the time made those dreams seem almost impossible. Amelia didn't let that stop her. As a young aviator breaking records and expectations, she learned to fly her plane with flair. Later, she dared to create a trendsetting fashion line for active women like herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILShannon, Molly
Summary: A candid, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShannonMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINKeenan, Sheila
Summary: When he was a young boy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy wondered about what happened in the world. He wanted to change the world when he grew up, and he did just that! --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE KEEMeacham, Jon
Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEAHewson, Anthony K.
Summary: A brief look at the life and career of football player Patrick Mahomes
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MAHOMES HEWUpdegrove, Mark K.
Summary: Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years through their post-presidencies. He examines the failed presidential candidacy of Jeb Bush, which derailed the Bush presidential dynasty. Updegrove reveals for the first time their influences and perspectives on each other's presidencies; their views on family, public service, and America's role in the world; and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 UPDNelson, Craig
Summary: "New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 NELBarr-Green, Craig
Summary: Ever heard of the iPhone? Steve Jobs, raised in California, was the co-founder of Apple, creator of the iPhone. He also played a major role in making Pixar what it is today. His technology transformed the way we live, and gave us objects we now cannot imagine living without. Get ready to discover his incredible story and the secrets of his success in this real-life account of his life and work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People JobsWelsh, Johnny
Summary: "A young couple pledges to stay connected to each other by disconnecting from the rest of the world for a 16-day vacation. Unplugged smartphones and devices are the first rule of the road. Chance encounters, surprising side trips, and a cast of unique characters met along the way, make this unplugged travel adventure a fun trip for anyone who has had it with today's smartphone-addicted world"
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit WelshRussell, R. K.
Summary: Told through the people and moments that have shaped him, the first out active NFL player to identify as bisexual shares his story, showing the life-changing power of embracing who you are and fighting to make space so others can do the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andscape 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSSELL, R.K. RUSAgar, Johnny
Summary: "The incredible story of Johnny Agar, born with cerebral palsy and who doctors thought would never walk, overcoming the odds to participate in long-distance endurance races with his dad pushing him, until the final mile when he walks across the finish line." - provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dexterity 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AGAR, JOHNNY AGABader, Bonnie
Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016