Traig, Jennifer.
Summary: A woman who suffered from an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder in her childhood recounts how her drive for perfection and incessant hand-washing rituals compromised her daily life and strained her relationship with her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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Summary: "The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border intoMexico. In South to Freedom historian Alice Baumgartner tells the story of Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised land for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BAUCragg, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.2465 CRABaumgartner, Nick
Summary: "Every summer in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Nick Baumgartner went to work pouring concrete, taking on the harsh physical conditions of the construction trade in order to support his professional snowboarding dreams come winter. Unable to afford housing for those months spent training in the mountains, he lived out of a crusty van, parked anywhere he could find a spot. And in 2022, after 17...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books LLC 2024
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Contents: Inside the dog: lore and history -- Democratic food and popular culture -- Hot dog people: entrepreneurs, experts, and fans -- Hot dog emporia: signs and meanings -- Doggie styles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AltaMira Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.66 KRABaumgart, Barret
Summary: "Barret Baumgart's literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California's historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base, NAWS China Lake, near Death Valley, California. His mother, the survivor of a recent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Of Iowa Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 BAUBaumgartner, Brian
Summary: "The official oral history book of The Office, featuring exclusive interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos, pulling back the curtain on the absurdity and genius that went in to creating this unstoppable force in American popular culture and why it continues to resonate with audiences today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 BAUBaumgartner, Jennifer J.
Summary: Explores the psychology behind style choices which explains why women do not dress their age, wear all the clothing they purchase, or dress to flatter their body shape, in order to help them develop a personal style and make life changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.9 BAUCraige, Betty Jean.
Summary: Craige presents an academic yet highly entertaining narrative on parrot rearing by citing numerous informative studies while also providing a firsthand account of life with an African gray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sherman Asher Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.6865 CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD SWAT team negotiator takes a job as a police chief in a small Southern California town after a hostage situation gone bad results in recurring nightmares for him. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon the deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken a man and his two children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrain, Mary Beth
Summary: "Summing up the eerie essence of wartime scenes across America, Haunted U.S. Battlefields is a must for students of the paranormal, Civil War buffs, and all others interested in a spine-chilling realm of military history that the history books don't daretell"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 CRACrain, William C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 CRACrase, Douglas
Summary: MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, "rests a formidable underground reputation." Now, by combining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightboat Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 CRAGragg, Rod
Summary: Describes the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Includes facsimiles of journal entries, maps, and letters inserted in folders and under flaps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISI Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 BERCraze, Richard
Summary: The 12 signs of the Chinese horoscope introduced and explained; find out which signs you are compatible with and which you should avoid. Increase your understanding of your partner, friends and family as their sign's characteristics reveal themselves. Learn how the year you were born and your Chinese astrological sign influence your personality, ambitions, relationships and life choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Contents: Introduction -- [pt. 1]. The traditional method of building random rubble -- Choosing your stone -- Beginning the work -- The building method -- Points to remember -- Building a wall on sloping ground -- Building a circular wall -- Pier or buttress with sloping face -- Coping for random rubble walls -- Window sills -- Figures for this section -- [pt. 2]. Tower construction -- The tower's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 CRADrain, Lauren.
Summary: "In the bestselling tradition of Escape and Stolen Innocence, the first look behind the curtains of the Westboro Baptist Church, by a young woman cast out from its clutches"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013
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Summary: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, LUCIAN GRETrang, Corinne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACravit, David
Summary: "Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you've been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life. SuperAging is already a reality for millions. But the science, business, and culture of aging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashpoint Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.67 CRAGreig, Andrew.
Summary: A memoir of recovery by a Scottish novelist, poet, and golfer describes how he nearly lost his life before a last-ditch operation, his inspiration to resume playing golf after three decades, and his visits to courses on the Orkney Islands and St. Andrews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 GREChait, Jonathan
Summary: "Jonathan Chait ... digs deep into Obama's record on major policy fronts-- economics, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, foreign policy, and civil rights-- to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow 2017