Montano, Judith Baker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.44 MONMontano, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 MONStamper, Judith Bauer.
Summary: Describes how dogs can help recapture exotic pets that have been released into the wild, locate endangered animals for tagging, and identify smugglers at airports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2011
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Summary: "During World War II, families all across Europe huddled together in basements, attics, and closets as Nazi soldiers rounded up anyone Jewish. The Star of David, a symbol of faith and pride, became a tool of hate when the Nazis forced Jewish people to carry papers stamped with that star, so that it was clear who to capture. But many brave souls dared to help them. Jewish teenager Jacqueline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BOXMontano, Samantha
Summary: "In Disasterology, Dr. Montano, a disaster researcher, brings readers with her on an eye-opening journey through some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened from a emergency management perspective. She explains why we aren't doing enough to prevent or prepare for disasters, the critical role of media, and how our approach to recovery was not designed to serve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 MONMontale, Eugenio
Summary: An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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Summary: January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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Summary: The mental state of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) has been a perennial source of discussion and conjecture since his death by suicide. Was he mentally ill or a genius? What was the precise nature of Van Gogh's illness? Did it influence his work? This intriguing publication examines how Van Gogh's mental condition revealed itself in 1888 and how he struggled with it throughout his life. Van...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercatorfonds 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT BAKBaier, Bret
Summary: On May 31, 1988, Reagan addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, with a remarkable -- yet now largely forgotten -- speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "One Decision is a shift in thinking and a powerful blueprint that will catapult you into action, helping you turn obstacles into opportunities, struggles into successes and create a new outlook to improve your outcomes while living out the days ahead"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 BAYFontana, David
Summary: The New Secret Language of Symbols is a beautifully illustrated sourcebook of symbols and symbol systems. An illuminating introduction looks at the cultural and psychological explanations of symbols - including the Jungian idea of the collective unconscious. Then follows "The World of Symbols," the heart of the book in which more than 500 symbols are presented and explained theme by theme -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2018
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Summary: November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: George Washington rescued the nation three times: first by leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, second by presiding over the Constitutional Convention that set the blueprint for the United States and ushering the Constitution through a fractious ratification process, and third by leading the nation as its first president. After the War of Independence, the states...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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Summary: "In his timely historical work The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed from the transatlantic slave trade by Northern corporations in America. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn't complicit in the horrors of slavery, that the forced bondage and exploitation of Black people was primarily a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit, Hachette Book Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.44 MONBakker, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.0846 BAKReichenberg-Ullman, Judyth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Health 2000
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Summary: The Underground Railroad includes miles of real stories of passengers, conductors, and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, that made their mark on history. Throughout, American Girl character Addy Walker shares snippets of her own gripping fictional story of escaping slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: When Dr. Maker was diagnosed in 2011, she, like most people, knew almost nothing about breast cancer. What she did know is that she didn't feel safe simply following her doctors' advice. The treatment is not always successful; some people die, and some who survive have disabling side effects. She needed to understand for herself all her treatment options, the statistical outcomes for each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jane Thomas Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 MAKBales, Kevin.
Summary: In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In "The Slave Next Door "we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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Summary: "Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China's vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.45 BYLCoker, Margaret
Summary: "From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COKDakers, Diane.
Summary: Chronicles the story of the British band through its sensational successes of the 1960s and the four solo careers its breakup spawned in 1970, looking at the band's formation and how its music defined a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2013
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Contents: Understanding financial infidelity -- Financial infidelity : are you at risk? -- Facing financial infidelity -- Step 1 Calculate the cost : what the "balance sheet" of your relationship reveals -- Step 2 Examine your power dynamic : if money is power, is there a balance in your relationship? -- Step 3 Divest your past : understanding your inherited money history and the cycle of financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2008