Meyerowitz, Seth
Summary: Documents the story of a World War II American Air Force turret-gunner who was one of two escapees when his team's plane was shot down near Cognac in 1943, tracing his harrowing six-month flight to safety across the Pyrenees under constant pursuit by the Gestapo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars MeyerowitzRukeyser, Muriel
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 RUKHemingway, Mariel.
Summary: "A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America's most famous families: the Hemingways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family's fate in Innsbruck and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle, she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room, Dr. Buqué teaches readers how trauma is transmitted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURDubois, Muriel L.
Contents: Fast facts -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Fighting the Vietnam war --The idea for the memorial -- Designing the memorial -- Building the memorial -- Opening ceremonies -- The memorial changes -- Visiting the memorial -- Important dates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 959.704 DUBDubois, Muriel L.
Summary: Discusses the history of the Washington Monument, its designer, the construction of the monument, its location, and its importance to the people of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 975.3 DUBGillick, Muriel R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 GILMurillo, Mario
Summary: "The earth is shaking. The church is suffering from compromise and powerlessness. People are desperate for solutions. The answer will not come from a president; it can only come from a people who know how to bring Heaven to Earth. Could it be that you are the key to unlocking the move of God in this generation? Mario Murillo is recognized as a dynamic evangelist whose ministry sees multitudes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc. 2020
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Summary: Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CALMerkel, Jim.
Contents: Journey to simplicity -- Building the case for global living -- A culture of global living -- Sustainability in action -- Three tools -- Sharing the earth -- Getting started -- The first tool - ecological footprints -- The second tool - your money or your life -- The third tool - learning from nature -- Integration -- Applying the tools -- The wiseacre challenge -- The one-hundred-year-old plan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MERDuriez, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Book House 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1982
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Summary: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MARProust, Marcel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.79 GILRoubini, Nouriel
Summary: "Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt crisis the world has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 MARMarkel, Howard
Summary: "A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it-and why were they the ones who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 MARMarkel, Howard.
Summary: The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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Summary: Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw on walls, in books, on paper—and she loved the fantastic tales her grandmother told that took her to worlds that shimmered beyond this one, where legends became real. Leonora’s parents wanted her to become a proper English lady, but there was only one thing she wanted, even if it was unsuitable: to become an artist. In London,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARDuchamp, Marcel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996