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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KOPPEL, TED KOPKoppel, Lily.
Summary: After finding a lost journal, the author meets its writer and, using excerpts from the journal, recreates the writer's privileged life as a teenager in 1930s Manhattan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 KOPKoppel, Lily
Summary: Reveals for the first time the stories and secrets of America's unsung heroes-the wives of our original astronauts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 629.45 KOPKoeppel, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 598.072 KOEKoeppel, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.072 KOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 KOECappel, Constance
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fleet Pub. Corp. 1966
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HEMINWAY MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 813.52 MONBruschi, Tedy.
Summary: "You might be coming to this book as a fan of Tedy's football skills and, don't get me wrong, gaining the insights of one of the best defenders in Patriots history is worth the price of admission, but that's just part of the story. There are a lot of reasons to look up to him, and I promise you will finish this book with an admiration for him on a much deeper level."--Tom Brady (from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 TECPerl, Jed
Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERDematteo, Mario
Summary: "The incredible true story of Corrie ten Boom, and her faith in the face of evil, is now a visually stunning graphic novel for ages 8-12. Through more than 900 engaging, full-color panels, this real-life heroine comes to life-showing a new generation how even in the most desperate, loneliest, and darkest times, faith, hope, and love will ultimately triumph"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chosen Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 921 TENMcClelland, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClellandAlbright, Madeleine Korbel
Summary: In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America?s first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. "I don't want to be remembered," she answered. "I am still here and have much more I intend to do. As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." In that time of transition, the former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBRIGHT, MADALEINE ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALBRIGHT ALBConover, Ted.
Summary: A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.1 CONGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPJackson, Ted
Summary: "The heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the transformative friendship binding a fallen-from-grace NFL player and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who meet on the streets of New Orleans, offering a rare glimpse into the precarious world of homelessness and the lingering impact of systemic racism and poverty on the lives of NOLA's citizens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, JACKIE JACRall, Ted.
Summary: As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RALPerl, Jed
Summary: "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PEROlson, Tod
Summary: "World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel. At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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Summary: In May 2017 Conover went to Colorado to explore a rural way of life cheaply, on his own land-- and keeping clear of the mainstream. But along with independence and stunning views can come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services. This is his story of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins. In their struggles to survive and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304.2 CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 CONGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.162Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.162 GUPKooser, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.2 KOOMorgan, Ted
Summary: Historian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America, he relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist--and increasingly, many were. He spends months in the back country, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books/Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 965.04 MORGAN, Ted MORSimon, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 SIMConover, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Departures 2001