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Summary: "A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BRISmith, Brian
Summary: "This book sets out the records available for research on the history of County Clare families, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect. For each type of record, it describes the background to their compilation, and the categories of people and data included. It also provides background on the social history of County Clare and how this history has affected the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 SmithSmith, Brian
Summary: The families of Mayo are a mixture of native families, of gaelic families who migrated from Ulster in the 18th century, and of English and Scotch-Irish settlers who came to Mayo from the 17th century onward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flyleaf Press 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 SmithSpitz, Bob.
Summary: Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. The Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth--until now. This biography is the product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 SPIBejan, Adrian
Summary: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BEJSpitz, Bob.
Summary: Draws on the iconic culinary figure's personal diaries and letters to present a one-hundredth birthday commemoration that offers insight into her role in shaping women's views and influencing American approaches to cooking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHILD, JULIA SPISpitz, Marc.
Summary: New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that's embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating hybrid generation known as Twee. Via exclusive interviews and years of research, Spitz traces Generation Twee's roots...
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SPISpitz, Bob
Summary: "From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group Jack Black and many others call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious. Rock stars. Whatever those words mean to you, chances are, they owe a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SPISpitz, Marc.
Summary: This book ia a biography and cultural examination of the Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led. As the Rolling Stones' legendary front man Mick Jagger remains an enigma. He hasn't given an in-depth interview for a decade and a half and never commented on his friend and partner, Keith Richard's often critical biography. Drawing on firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAGGER, MICK SPICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music SpitzArrian.
Summary: During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests is the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world. --from publisher description
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938.07 ARRFritz, Ben.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRIO'Leary, Sara
Summary: "A charming picture book about the Brontë siblings as children creating their own adventures,"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Book Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OLEBriant, Monta Z.
Summary: In "Baby Sign Language Basics," parents will learn 60 baby-friendly American Sign Language signs. Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are included to make learning fun and easy, and also open up two-way communication quickly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 419.1 BRISpitzer, Michael
Summary: Examines music in our everyday lives, music in world history, and music in evolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SPISpoto, Donald
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.901 SPOZeitz, Joshua.
Summary: A look into the Lincoln White House through the lives of two of his closest aides and confidants draws on letters and diaries to evaluate their roles in the seminal events of Lincoln's presidency and their fight to establish the assassinated president's heroic legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ZEIBrown, Brian
Summary: "From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian T. Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War" -- From book jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BROSeitz, Matt Zoller
Summary: A mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office ... No, it wasn't the start of a joke: it was the start of a program that changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television. Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 SEIBakan, Joel
Summary: "From the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power comes this deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BAKBorman, 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 BORTaitz, Jennifer.
Summary: "Though it shares many similarities with eating disorders, emotional eating is embedded in and accepted by our culture in many ways. Happy events and celebrations call for indulgence and overeating, but so do the lowest emotional points. Emotional eating becomes a problem when this dysfunctional eating pattern becomes a go-to mechanism for coping with depression, anxiety, loss, rejection, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind TaitzDavis, David Brion.
Summary: Davis begins with the dramatic Amistad case, which vividly highlights the international character of the Atlantic slave trade and the roles of the American judiciary, the presidency, the media, and of both black and white abolitionists. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 DAVBorman, 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 BORCarter, Arlan.
Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010