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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SACKater, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATSummary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVJeter, Derek
Summary: A "collection of never-before-published images taken over the course of Derek's final season. Fans will have unprecedented access to The Captain, as the famously private baseball legend takes us behind the scenes inside his home, the stadium, the gym, at his Turn 2 Foundation events, fortieth birthday party, and more as he looks back with candor and gratitude on his baseball career"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 JETGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: Complete with exclusive photographs and sensational backstage stories, Is Wrestling Fixed? is the much anticipated memoir from the biggest legend in wrestling fandom himself, Bill Apter As a kid growing up in New York in the late '50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling, and it wasn't long before he was rubbing shoulders with the greats as a young reporter and photographer....
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 KATKater, Michael H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 KATEtter, Lauren
Summary: "Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this corporate exposae of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided-and the vaping epidemic was born. Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company,and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ETTAlter, Jonathan.
Summary: Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK ALTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 973.932 ALTAlter, Robert
Summary: Presents a modern translation of the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, and provides annotations and commentary for each verse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 223.077 ALTApter, Jeff
Summary: In the first and only definitive biography of country music star Keith Urban, insider Jeff Apter chronicles how a skinny, shy high school dropout with an outrageous mullet went from humble origins in Australia to conquering Nashville and global stardom, plus his struggles with addiction, marriage to Nicole Kidman, turns on American Idol, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 URBAN, KEITH APTSummary: Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TENAster, Alex
Summary: After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ASTAlter, Adam
Summary: A groundbreaking guide to getting unstuck making breakthroughs in every sphere of life, from creative pursuits and sports to entrepreneurship and relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARLockard, Greg
Summary: Presents a graphic novel adaptation of the first three episodes of "Gravity Falls," which follows twins Dipper and Mabel's summer vacation working at their Gruncle Stan's mystery shack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Books, Inc 2016
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Summary: "A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it);...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 ALTAlter, Jonathan.
Summary: A narrative thriller about the battle royale surrounding Barack Obama's quest for a second term amid widespread joblessness and one of the most poisonous political climates in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTAlter, Stephen
Summary: While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AlterEtter, Roberta B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 523.64 ETTAlter, Jonathan
Summary: An intimate portrait of the thirty-ninth president draws on fresh archival material to trace Jimmy Carter's improbable rise from a humble peanut farmer and complex man of faith to an American president and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY ALTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARTER ALTAlter, Judy
Summary: Describes the history of vaccines and their use, from the development of the first smallpox vaccine to advances in immunization technology, and includes information on famous vaccination innovators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615 ALTSummary: The all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Discover little-known facts about these visionary brothers and their flying machines that changed the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003