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Summary: Throughout his life, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson has needed to overcome many obstacles: his father leaving the family, being considered stupid by his classmates in grade school, growing up in inner-city Detroit, and having a violent temper. But Dr. Carson didn't let his circumstances control him and instead discovered eight principles that helped shape his future... Dr. Carson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 179 CARCarson, Ben
Summary: "Many people have wondered why I've been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I've never held political office. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I'm not even a lawyer. All I can say to that is 'Guilty as charged.' It's true that I've never voted for a budget America could not afford. I've never raised anyone's taxes. And I've never promised a lobbyist anything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 CARGogek, Ed (Edward Burton)
Summary: Marijuana subtly damages the teenage brain, causing lifelong problems. Yet four million teens in Canada and the United States use the drug, a half million of them daily. For those who have heard only the pro-legalization side, this book presents the case against marijuana on an equal footing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chiron Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345 GOGPeres, Shimon
Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PERCorson, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 691 CORCorson, Trevor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.348 CORGurdon, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Lyons Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 GURNudson, Rae
Summary: "Examines how people use makeup as a strategy and a coping mechanism to get by in a world not made for them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 NUDDutson, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 DUTTec, Nechama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 TECZed, Matteo
Summary: "An illustrated history, exploration, and celebration of the Italian liqueur everyone loves. This gorgeous guide teaches you everything you need to know about amaro, the delightfully complex and bittersweet Italian liqueur. Traditionally a digestif, it'salso a popular ingredient in modern cocktails. The first part of the book is dedicated to the drink's creation and extraction processes, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 663 ZEDBarson, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BARPerson, Charles
Summary: "A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil RightsMovement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERSON, CHARLES PERCopson, Andrew
Summary: Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. Not religion, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 COPMunson, Helene
Summary: "The true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MUNKurson, Robert
Summary: Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted the decision to risk lives to save the Apollo program and define the space race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 629 KURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 KURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.45 KURKurson, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 KURBunson, Matthew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.45 BUNMeadow, Tey
Summary: "In the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child, ethnographer Tey Meadow introduces readers to a generation of parents who actively facilitate gender nonconformity in their children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at cure, but today such families call their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 MEATec, Nechama.
Summary: Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia, led by Tuvia Bielski, that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.83 TECCurran, John.
Summary: "This follow-up to the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks features Christie's unpublished work, including an analysis of her last unfinished novel, and a foreword by the acclaimed actor David Suchet."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper/HarperCollins 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTIE, AGATHA CURCurtin, Jeremiah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2089 CURCurzan, Anne
Summary: "A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan. Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond "right" and "wrong" to empower us to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024