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Summary: When you work for Black Ops SOcial Services, there's never a slow day at the office. Maybe today's the day the clockwork receptionist's evil gears will kick in. Maybe the office supplies will vote to go on strike. Maybe a mad scientist will escape the facility and go on a high-fashion funkadelic rampage. But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of topless mud-wrestling, the staff of Project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: In its ongoing mission to assist America's nonhuman citzenry, Project Skin Horse is dispatched to Alaska, where someone's been dining on National Guardsmen. Snowbound, the field team falls back on its basic survival skills: Unity's zombie strength, Sweetheart's canin (and Canadian) instincts, and Tip's talent for coordinating boots with leggings. Will the frozen North be tamed? WIll Tip find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Couscous Collective 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: "Somewhere in this great nation of ours is Project Skin Horse, an overworked, underfunded secret agency dedicated to assisting America's nonhuman citizens. The receptionist is a clockwork robot, the project head is a swarm of bees, the field team consists of Sweetheart the talking dog and her faithful zombie Unity, and Dr. Tip Wilkin, the lone human staffer, feels he can only do his job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGiddens, Rhiannon
Contents: Too little, too late, too bad (3:44) -- You're the one (3:25) -- Yet to be / (feat. Jason Isbell) (3:40) -- Wrong kind of right (4:40) -- Another wasted life (4:48) -- You Louisiana man (4:06) -- If you don't know how sweet it is (3:01) -- Hen in the foxhouse (3:47) -- Who are you dreaming of (3:26) -- You put the sugar in my bowl (2:59) -- Way over yonder (3:12) -- Good ol' cider (0:45).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy-from the stories of its survivors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 DITHanlon, Luke
Summary: "During his superstar NBA career, Kobe Bryant wowed fans with his scoring ability and drive to win. And he remains an icon of the sport even after his tragic death in a 2020 helicopter crash. This title gives fans the in-depth history of the life and career of this legendary basketball player. The title features informative fast facts, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. SportsZone is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2024
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Summary: Examines the life and career of United States soccer star Alex Morgan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MORGAN HANHale, Shannon
Summary: Shannon knows sixth grade is going to be a perfect year. She's got a spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and, most importantly, which boys you're allowed to talk to. Who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A candid, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShannonStanton, Doug
Summary: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars StantonSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: "Pearl Harbor features real stories of that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American Girl Nanea Mitchell shares her own experiences adjusting to the drastic changes to everyday life in Hawaii following the attack"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SWAShannon, Molly
Summary: At age four, Molly Shannon lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident. Held together by her father, she was raised in a house that would allow her to become a renowned comedic actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Across these essays, Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest for meaning amid the swirl of our post-truth climate. Traversing the country, he introduces us to Americans who are contending with the aftermath of political and economic collapse and who are striving to recover some semblance of meaning and purpose. "Notes from a Last Man" chronicles a period of personal lostness and considers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 SWASwanson, Shari
Summary: "In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck searching for a nesting spot lands on a tall post sticking out of the Milwaukee River. Situated near a busy drawbridge and the noisy city of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Summary: Teaches kids about the freedom to vote, of religion, to choose where to live, of speech, and to learn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.44 HANHarts, Shannon H.
Summary: Why is voting to choose the president of the United States important? What is the process and how has it changed? These essential questions and more are answered in this book, which will educate students about an important facet of citizenship. Complete with detailed descriptions, enlightening fact boxes, and engaging imagery, this book will guide readers through the steps and history of voting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 HARSchmidt, Shannon McKenna
Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCHSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIMead, Terri Hanson
Summary: Are you feeling blindsided by midlife?You're not alone and you're not crazy. Our current culture tells us that midlife (ages 40-65) is a time of unraveling, chaos, and uncertainty for women. This doesn't have to be true. MIDLIFE IS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A CRISIS.Our bodies, minds, and lives are changing. Many of us feel off balance, wondering if this is all there is? Some of us feel completely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help MeadSummary: Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? As of 2019, in the US, there were only 34,000 new cases of the disease, a feat that once seemed near-impossible to achieve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ENDCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMMalone, Sharon
Summary: "A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading Ob/Gyn and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health. The medical system today is increasingly complicated and impersonal, and unfortunately, it is not going to be less so in the future. The rules of engagement have changed in medicine, but no one has bothered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaSummary: Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019