Abraham, Philip

Summary: Relates the courage of John F. Kennedy during World War II, especially in saving his crew when they were stranded in the South Pacific after their PT boat was rammed by a Japanese warship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5459 ABR

Kendrick, Paul

Summary: Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEN

Tyson, Neil deGrasse

Summary: Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 TYS

Kunhardt, Philip B.

Summary: Photographic biography of Abraham Lincoln with more than 700 illustrations, most of them drawn from the Meserve collection.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

Lustgarten, Abrahm.

Summary: Discusses how the CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne, helmed one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history only to have it fall apart due to deadly accidents and environmental crimes, culminating in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7382 LUS

Chii

Summary: "A diary comic with an upbeat, adorable flair that tells the charming tale of Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition-as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now, Chii is about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRI

Branham, Leigh.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 BRA

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: "The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7092 WHI

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LIN

Maslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold)

Summary: "Maslow's theories of self-actualization and the hierarchy of human needs are the cornerstone of modern humanistic psychology, and no book so well epitomizes those ideas as this classic. Its influence continues to spread, more than a quarter century after its author's death, beyond psychology and throughout the humanities, social theory, and business management theory. Its enduring popularity...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.25 MAS

Lincoln, Abraham

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1942

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.309 LIN

Loeb, Abraham

Summary: "In New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened thousands of minds to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 999 LOE

Abraham, Gary.

Summary: Includes hockey rules, skills, equipment, safety, schools, rinds and organizations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 ABR

Riesman, Abraham

Summary: "The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at a steep personal cost. Stan Lee--born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922--is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, STAN RIE

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: The President's writings trace his involvement in Illinois politics, his opposition to slavery, and his political debates with Stephen Douglas

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 LIN

Loeb, Abraham

Summary: "Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 LOE

Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: A biography of one of America's greatest presidents, focusing on his use of wit and humor, and his love of language.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7 KRU

Riesman, Abraham

Summary: In his four decades as the defining figure of American pro wrestling, Vince McMahon was the man behind the megastars. He was also a performer in his own show, acting as the diabolical "Mr. McMahon"-- a figure you may have more in common with the real Vince than he would care to admit. Just as important, McMahon is one of Donald Trump's closest friends; McMahon and his wife, Linda, are major...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMAHON, VINCE RIE

Ibrahim, Azeem

Summary: An international expert traces the rise of the extreme ideology of Wahhabism, which has been the ideological bedrock of the state of Saudi Arabia since its original rise in the eighteenth century, and argues that it is this ideology that is fueling ISIS and terror cells worldwide.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 IBR

Ibrahim, Raymond

Summary: A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: De Capo Press, Hachette Book Group 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 IBR

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA DRO