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Studies in social changeLittle, Margaree
Summary: Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LITFox, Margalit.
Summary: An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 487.1 FOXFox, Margalit
Summary: "In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 FOXOlbermann, Keith
Summary: "Since Donald Trump was nominated for president, Keith Olbermann has emerged as one of America's most acerbic, insightful, and inspirational anti-Trump commentators. In his hit GQ Web series T/Je Resistance, Olbermann consistently takes our commander in chief and his indecipherable politics apart with journalistic acuity and rhetorical Hair. Tough, cutting, Witty; and relentlessly hard-hitting,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 OLBBerkman, Seth
Summary: Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea's women's hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador or general had been able to resolve in the sixty-five years since the end of the Korean War. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before.The team was built for this moment....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 BEROsserman, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.15 OSSLiberman, Anatoly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word LibermanTyerman, Christopher
Summary: The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 TYEFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXDuberman, Martin.
Summary: The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. At a little after one a.m. on the morning of June 28, 1969, the police carried out a routine raid on the bar. But it turned out not to be routine at all. Instead of cowering -- the usual reaction to a police raid -- the patrons inside Stonewall and the crowd that gathered outside the bar fought back against the police. The five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 DUBBerman, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: GPP Travel 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.202 BERBerman, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.7 BermaEngle, Margarita
Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGBerman, Laura.
Summary: "Top sex therapist Dr. Laura Berman shows how you and your partner can maximize your potential for an amazing sex life. Learn to feel more confident about yourself, connect more intimately with your partner, practice tantalizing new sexual techniques--and get the rich, rewarding, and passionate pleasure you deserve"--Cover, P. [4].
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.96 BERGherman, Beverly.
Summary: Describes the life and work of the popular American artist who depicted subjects including children, family scenes, astronauts, and the poor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROCKWELL GHEEierman, Kim
Summary: "The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment-the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these beneficial animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2020
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Summary: "From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TRUMP HAMHaberman, Maggie
Summary: From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling Trump's rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. This is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB TRUMP HABPeerman, Gordon
Contents: Big mind, big medicine -- The cry for help -- Beyond belief -- Quiet ambition -- An instrument of peace -- Meeting our edges -- Beginning anew -- The dharma of dying -- Mobile loaves and fishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skylight Paths Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 PEELerman, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 1981
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 362.21 LERBorman, Tracy.
Summary: Chronicles the achievements of Matilda of Flanders, the ruthless wife of William the Conqueror, who eschewed the traditional views of women in medieval society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATILDA, QUEEN BOREngle, Margarita
Summary: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGBorman, Tracy
Summary: "Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BORBorman, Tracy
Summary: "Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne: "shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue's gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs," as Tracy Borman evocatively describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022