Dawson, Kate Winkler
Summary: Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEINRICH, EDWARD OSCAR DAWLarson, Kate Clifford
Summary: The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, ROSEMARY LARCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Young Paul Revere and his friends form a club whose members ring the bells at Christ Church, an experience which teaches him responsibility and other lessons that he uses as an adult in the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WINIsaacson, Walter
Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DOUDNA, JENNIFER ISAWinkler, Henry
Summary: The former star of "Happy Days" uses his trademark sense of humor to discuss the lessons he learned from family, fatherhood, and most importantly, fly fishing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.12 WINWinkler, Henry
Summary: "From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINKLER WINRawson, Kerri
Summary: What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KERRI RAWSON RAWKates, Gary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.034 KATMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARKade, Rebecca.
Summary: Offers the author's accounts of her time as a highly paid prostitute, how she came to work for multimillion-dollar madam Anna Gristina, and how she became an informant against Gristina after being threatened with jail time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MARBate, Jonathan.
Summary: Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BATPaxson, Margaret
Summary: "During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult PaxsonWindeler, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Publ. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDREWS, JULIE WINMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: "HIDDEN is the compelling story told from the child's perspective of Kati Preston, who lost her extended Jewish family in the Holocaust and was saved when she was 5 years old. It is beautifully illustrated in color as a graphic novel. Kati Preston was born in Hungary in 1939, the only child born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Twenty-eight members of Kati's Jewish family perished in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter E. Randall Publisher 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 PRESTON, KATI PREDawson, Mick
Summary: One of the world⁰́₉s most experienced ocean rowers details his two Atlantic Ocean crossings and his three attempts to row across the North Pacific Ocean, discussing how he overcame exhaustion; dealt with painful injury; and battled the elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAWSON, MICK DAWDenson, Bryan
Summary: Recounts the case of the Unabomber and the FBI agent that was insrumental to bringing him to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.152 DENSasson, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.42 SASSearls, Damion
Summary: "In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years, he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from Futurism to Dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SEAWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Describes the Civil War from Abraham Lincoln's point of view in Washington, D.C., chronicling how the president supported fugitive slaves and also personally comforted wounded troops during wartime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.302 WINDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.78 DUNLineberry, Cate.
Summary: Recounts how the passengers and crew of an American medical evacuation plane, including thirteen nurses and thirteen medics, survived after it crashed in Nazi-controlled Albania in November, 1943, until they could be rescued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013