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Moore, Kimberly C.

Summary: This book is a behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre crime of astronaut Lisa Nowak, who drove 900 miles to intercept and confront her romantic rival in an airport parking lot--allegedly using diapers on the trip so she wouldn't have to stop. This is a riveting journey inside the high-pressure world of one of America's most elite agencies and the life of one beleaguered astronaut.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 MOO

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.

Summary: Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.7 KAL

Rylant, Cynthia.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007

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Summary: It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Frazier, Ian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1 FRA

Gilman, Dorothy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 GIL

Huftalen, Sarah Gillespie

Summary: "Presents excerpts from the diary of Sarah Gillespie, a pioneer girl living in Iowa in the late 1860s"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 977.7385 HUF

Loveless, Leslie A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 LOV

Summary: "A Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the timid researcher's work! Soon, in the struggle between neutral observation and the need for human interaction, the kitchen becomes a battleground!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIT

Feldstein, Peter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Books 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.7655 BLO

Golabek, Mona

Summary: The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOL

Nowak, Margaret Collingwood

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.88 NOW

Chandler, Matt

Summary: "This is the true story of one man's bravery, ingenuity, and daring determination as he trekked thousands of feet up in the mountains. Readers will learn about the struggles Sven Somme endured as he eluded 900 German soldiers set out to capture him."--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 CHA

Ling, Laura

Summary: The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue with the help of President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LIN

Atwood, Megan

Summary: Pen pals Molly and Olive consider themselves best friends even though they have never actually met because Molly lives in New York City and Olive lives on a farm in Iowa--but when Olive finds a diamond bracelet in the grass the two girls start to wonder if they can finally get the money for one of them to visit the other.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATW

Beard, Janet

Summary: "In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has sprung up in a matter of months -- a town of trailers and segregated houses, twenty-four-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young women operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018

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Smiley, Jane.

Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Anderson, Joan

Summary: Shortly after deciding to spend a year apart from her husband, Anderson met Joan Erikson, wife of pioneering psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, on a foggy beach on Cape Cod. The two women were at different points in their lives but struck up a friendship that helped sustain them through the challenges they faced: marital uncertainty for Anderson; the decline and imminent death of a beloved spouse for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, JOAN AND

Mowat, Farley.

Summary: Canadian author Farley Mowat chronicles his youth from 1933-1937 when he discovered the Canadian wilderness and started to take an interest in writing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOWAT, FARLEY MOW

Kiernan, Denise.

Summary: Looks at the valuable contributions made by the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 976.873 KIR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.873 KIR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom Kiernan

Shrady, Nicholas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 725 SHR

Golabek, Mona

Summary: "In pre-World War II Vienna, Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. But when enemy forces threatened the city--particularly the Jewish people that lived there--Lisa's parents were forced to make a difficult decision. They chose to send Lisa to London for safety through the Kindertransport--a rescue effort that relocated Jewish children. As Lisa yearned to be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 GOL

Summary: Follows the 2002 race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32-year-old Cory Booker and four-term incumbent Sharpe James. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and housing projects, the election pits the young challenger against an old style political machine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STR

Summary: Carousel: Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker. He wants a better life for his family, but he goes about it the wrong way and is killed during a robbery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAR

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