Simons, Lisa M. Bolt
Summary: "The Japanese and their invading forces have wreaked havoc across eastern Asia. They've even attacked the U.S. Naval Base Pearl Harbor. You're part of the Allied Forces helping defend the Pacific Front. YOU CHOOSE how you will help fight for freedom on the high seas? Will you make the right decisions to help forward your cause and come home safe?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: You Choose, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SIMBoot, Max
Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOOWitt, Gretchen Holt
Summary: A collection of cookie recipes from the Cookies for Kids' Cancer charity, which has raised millions of dollars to help fun pediatric cancer treatments. Includes tips for conducting bake sales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.8 HOLColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 COLColl, Steve
Summary: "Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11. Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.104 COLBrown, Laaren.
Summary: Biography of Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned during the apartheid years and became the elected leader of South Africa after being released.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MANDELA BROJones, Charlotte Foltz.
Summary: Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 609 JONLunis, Natalie.
Summary: Do some animals really have the power of invisibility? In "See-Through Animals," you'll meet eight creatures whose clear body parts help them survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J591.472 LUNAult, Phillip H.
Summary: Traces the history of the Great Lakes and their environs, examines man's responsibility for upsetting and correcting the ecological balance in the lakes, and discusses their present pollution crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1972
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 AULHaynes, Natalie
Summary: The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 292.1 HAYRosinsky, Natalie M. (Natalie Myra)
Summary: Discusses the nature, uses, and importance of soil and the many forms of life that it supports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2003
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Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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Summary: "This dynamic plan will help the whole family kick-start their health and wellness and set the stage for long-term, lasting improvements in nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress, and screen use habits. Dr. Natalie Digate Muth walks families through this thirty-day transformation that establishes a baseline and goals, creates routines and healthy habits, and provides strategies for overcoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Acdemy of Pediatrics 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.7 MUTHale, Nathan
Summary: Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history's roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC HAL Graphic NovelHale, Nathan
Summary: "World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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Summary: "Describes history of mummies of ancient Egypt"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J932 CAPManning, Matthew K.
Summary: "In 2008, Moko the dolphin was well known at Mahia Beach on New Zealand's North Island. People loved to come and watch the playful dolphin fetch beach balls, steal boogie boards, and interact with the swimmers and beachgoers. In March of that year, two pygmy sperm whales got trapped between a sandbar and the beach and couldn't get them back to the ocean. Several concerned people were unable to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J559.53 MANCole, Joanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 818 COLCole, Alyssa
Summary: "Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Describes various games played by children in countries around the world, describing the places where the games are played and the directions and equipment needed for each game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.1 ERLCole, Melissa S.
Summary: Describes the manatees habitat, physical features, and special abilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.55 COLDe Hart, Jane Sherron
Summary: "The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG DEHHall, Megan Olivia
Summary: "50 educational (and edible!) science experiments you can do at home. In laboratories, at school, and even in your house--science happens everywhere. Awesome Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids brings the excitement of scientific investigation to your kitchen with a heaping helping of experiments that you can really sink your teeth into!"--Publisher's description
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J507.8 HALHill, Christine M.
Summary: A biography which covers the life and professional work of the man whose numerous missions to study the ocean floor led to the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1999