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American music seriesBrown, Mark Herbert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 BROHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Two opposition researchers take readers on a year-long journey across the United States as they investigate the backgrounds of political candidates, from presidential appointees to local school board hopefuls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.70973 HUFHuffman, Alan.
Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFHuffman, Eddie
Summary: In "John Prine," Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine's musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine's best-known songs and discusses all of Prine's albums as he explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRINE, JOHN HUFRoffman, Karin
Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFCoffman, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.782 COFHoffman, Carl
Summary: Retracing Rockefeller's steps, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995 HOFHoffman, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 HOFHoffman, Peter
Summary: An influential chef and food thinker combines personal stories with explorations into the cultural, historical and botanical backstories of the food we eat and the ingredients we use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 HOFHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Inspires readers to find the beauty in everyday life during tough times by re-envisioning everything from relationships to family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 HOFHoffman, Carl
Summary: Hoffman takes readers around the globe the way most people experience it and provides an up-close-and-personal view of its most teeming cities and remotest places. An eye-opening look at how welcoming the everyday people of the world can be to a complete stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HOFHoffman, Bryce G.
Summary: An account of the near-collapse of Ford in 2008 outlines the efforts of CEO Alan Mulally to save the company, describing Ford's subsequent transformation into the world's most profitable automobile business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 HOFWittman, Robert K.
Summary: Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offring a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio And Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 WITVon Hoffman, Nicholas.
Summary: A personal portrait of the controversial mastermind of popular movements, a man who is often called the American Machiavelli, Saul Alinsky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALINSKY, SAUL DAVID VONCobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth
Summary: "In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 COBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom CobbsHoffman, Mary Hramiec.
Summary: "This story is based upon the real life and adventures of Elizabeth Whitney Williams, a woman that resided in the Little Traverse Light, a red brick lighthouse that still sits on Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hramiec Hoffman Pub. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOFCutler, Laurence S.
Summary: "J. C. Leyendecker captured lifestyles with superior technical skills, with an imaginative use of subject, and with an originality that many have sought to imitate. Dubbed the "Master of the Magazine Cover" by Norman Rockwell - who modeled both his technique and his career on his mentor - Leyendecker created illustrations that graced the covers of all the leading magazines, including Collier's,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.6 LEYENDECKER, J.C., CUTHall, Sam
Summary: On cover: The first person account of the former businessman and olympic athlete who became "a soldier of democracy," commanding world attention with his arrest as a spy in Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.35 HALFanone, Michael
Summary: "An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 FANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 FANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FANONE FANGibbons, Leeza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lachance Pub Llc 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 GIBHoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)
Summary: "While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HOFRockliff, Mara
Summary: Presents the life of the creator of the Esperanto language, describing how the hostilities of Zamenhof's multiethnic childhood home inspired him to create a universal language to connect others and promote peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ZAMHoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)
Summary: During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the "Dead Hand," a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009