Rodengen, Jeffrey L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Stuff Enterprises 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.31 RODRosenzweig, Paul
Summary: In the centuries since the founding of the republic, there have been notable challenges to presidential authority. Among these are investigations, designed to seek out and uproot abuses of executive power. They are built on a system of institutions, laws, and policies that govern how our nation protects itself from corruption and tyranny. Even today, we see this system at work in controversies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Davis, Jim
Summary: "How sweet it is! Garfield really gets into desserts. And why not? The best things in life are sweet! The confection-loving cat would gladly quarantine in an ice cream parlor for a month of sundaes! For Garfield fans this new collection of comics is sure to be a treat!"--page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Provides descriptions, prices, and photographs of small firearms. The definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 GUNThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOSummary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In the cavalry charge at Mine Creek in Kansas, it took only 30 minutes for 2,800 Union troops to defeat an enemy force more than double in size, and yet, few people have heard of it. The same can be said of a Confederate raid on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECLott, John R.
Summary: Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this direct challenge to conventional wisdom, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.73 LOTSummary: Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In the cavalry charge at Mine Creek in Kansas, it took only 30 minutes for 2,800 Union troops to defeat an enemy force more than double in size, and yet, few people have heard of it. The same can be said of a Confederate raid on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECGross, Edward (Edward A.)
Summary: "There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films. In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action, bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross take you behind the scenes of a franchise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Lott, John R.
Summary: From myths about mass public shootings to suicides to gun ownership rates and crime to gun free zones, Lott addresses the claims you frequently hear in the media and explains what is wrong with those claims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Amazon KDP] 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 LOTSummary: This edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for Environmental Resources and Statistics. Section I: Resources, provides detailed contact information for thousands of information sources, including Associations & Organizations, Awards & Honors, Conferences, Foundations & Grants, Environmental Health, Government Agencies, National Parks & Wildlife Refuges, Publications, Research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing 2017
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 363.7 ENVDavis, Jim
Summary: A collection of comic strips follows the adventures of the lazy, food-loving, wise-cracking feline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997
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Summary: "Be it ever so crazy, there's no place like home -- especially at the Arbuckle asylum. Fashion fiascos abound! Dim-wittedness and drool rule the day! There's so much bizarre behavior from Jon and Odie that sometimes Garfield even seems normal. Of course, that delusion doesn't last for long. Soon, the quirky cat is conversing with a sock puppet and deflating a puffer fish (as well as an ice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frontline investigates how the NRA uses its unrivaled political power to stop gun regulation in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Gibbs, Stuart
Summary: "Top-secret training continues into summer for aspiring spy Ben Ripley--and so does the danger"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Pablo Cruz, Rosayra
Summary: "From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and thepower of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PABLO CRUZ, ROSAYRA PABMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: "An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.4 HAAShea, Therese
Summary: American landmarks sometimes evoke more than their original intent. For example, the Statue of Liberty was a gift symbolizing the friendship between France and the United States, but it became a welcoming monument to millions of immigrants heading to Ellis Island. This beautifully designed book offers numerous intriguing facts about American landmarks, including the Washington Monument, Statue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SHEWells, Jonathan Daniel
Summary: "Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 WELSummary: Examines immigration policy under both the Trump and Obama administrations, investigates the origins of zero tolerance, and reveals the journeys and voices of children who were separated from their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018