James, Thurston
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Publications 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 731.75 JAMStrathdee, Steffanie
Summary: Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STRWilkes, Stephany
Summary: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILKES, STEPHANY WILBurgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of Paddy the Beaver and his animal friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published in association with the Thornton W. Burgess Museum and the Green Briar Nature Center, Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Dover Publications 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BurSisson, 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 CARThornton, Russell
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.6 THOThornton, Sarah.
Summary: The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 ThorntonWilder, Thornton
Summary: The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel in which Wilder revisits the small-town America of Our Town to stage a philosophical who-dunit; a wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue frame a meditation on the mysteriousness of justice, fate, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's final novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 WILLohman, Eric
Summary: When their daughter Rosie was born, Eric and Stephani Lohman found themselves thrust into a situation they were not prepared for. Born intersex--a term that describes people who are born with a variety of physical characteristics that do not fit neatly into traditional conceptions about male and female bodies--Rosie's parents were pressured to consent to normalizing surgery on Rosie, without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOHSisson, Stéphanie Roth
Summary: "A biography of Carl Sagan focusing on his childhood and culminating in the Voyager mission and the Golden Record"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space SissonWilder, Thornton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.52 WILThurston, Alexander
Summary: "Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram's development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static terrorist organization, has evolved in its worldview and ideology in reaction to events. Chief among these has been Boko...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 THUToynton, Evelyn
Summary: A picture of life for children growing up in the decades before the Civil War in New England, on the Plains, and in the South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.5 TOYClarke, Thurston.
Summary: After JFK's assassination, Robert Kennedy--Jack's political warrior--almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country's pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed days of his campaign,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 CLAClarke, Thurston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 CLALoh, Stefanie
Summary: "Learn about the life and career of Olympic gold medalist and legendary snowboarder Chloe Kim."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMLoh, Stefanie
Summary: "On July 7, 2019, Megan Rapinoe ran out onto the field to play in her third Women's World Cup final. Determined to succeed after having to sit out of the semifinals due to an injury, Megan scored the first goal of the match. Thanks to this goal, Team USA won the Women's World Cup, and Megan added yet another victory to her impressive record. In her career, Megan has won Olympic gold medals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAPThornton, Bruce S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISI Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 149.7 THOTalty, Stephan
Summary: The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORESH, DAVID TALTalty, Stephan.
Summary: In a dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. --from publisher descriptioin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2742 TALTalty, Stephan
Summary: "The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice-a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 TALAbarbanell, Stephan
Summary: "Keynote For fans of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, Displaced is a deeply intelligent literary debut thriller--set within a world still reeling from WWII--about how the actions of a few can change the course of history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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Talty, Stephan
Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TALTalty, Stephan.
Summary: Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012