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Summary: "In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 BREBrennen, Carlene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST BREBrenner, Martha.
Summary: Frontier lawyer Abraham Lincoln cures his absent-mindedness by placing letters, court notes, contracts, and his checkbook in his tall black hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BREBrenner, Martha
Summary: "Fascinating anecdotes and broadened historical context enrich this biographical picture book that brings to life one of our nation's most revered presidents!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, started out in life as an absent-minded frontier lawyer. How did he nudge his memory? He stuck letters, court notes, contracts, and even his checkbook in his trademark top hat. When he took off his hat, it was all there!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BREDresner, Amy
Summary: A former stand-up comic and prolific online writer chronicles her twenty-year battle with sex, drug, and alcohol addiction, and what happened when she finally emerged on the other side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Summary: The former Speaker of the House shares candid tales from Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, offering insight into America's Republican Party and the leadership successes and failures of presidents from the past half century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOEHNER, JOHN BOECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BoehnerBremer, Krista.
Summary: A full-length account of a Pushcart Prize-winning essay describes the author's experiences as the journalist wife of a Libyan-born Muslim with whom she lives in the American south, a relationship that has endured prejudices and respective views about family and parenting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 BREMER, KRISTA BREHenner, Marilu
Summary: Marilu Henner was moving on with her life after a divorce when her old college classmate Michael Brown, whom she had not seen in over twenty years, called her out of nowhere. Within days of their reconnecting in 2003, they became inseparable. But only months later, Michael was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and then lung cancer. Marilu refused to lose the love of her life so easily. With the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HENKenner, Rob
Summary: "The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhoodhe was dedicated to building up"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUSSLE, NIPSEY KENRecca, Sophia
Summary: The fourteen-year-old author tells the story of her parents' divorce and how she demanded that both parents remain in her life, no matter what.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.89 RECBender, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.4 BENReiner, Carl
Summary: The award-winning actor and director recalls the major events in his life through a series of short stories, including "Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka" and "Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 REIStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STARenner, James
Summary: "In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa's friends and peers. Together they wove a damning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 RENReiner, Jon.
Summary: "Based on his Esquire magazine article, The man who couldn't eat is the very personal journey of Jon Reiner's struggle with chronic illness"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 REIOmalu, Bennet I. (Bennet Ifeakandu)
Summary: Offers an account of the author's life, describing his childhood in war-torn Nigeria and the forensic pathology studies that led to his much-criticized findings about the role of concussion in brain disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OMALU, BENNET OMABrenner-Wonschick, Hannelore
Summary: Shares the stories of ten women who as children survived the Theresienstadt internment camp, describing the dormitory-like barracks in which they lived, a series of counselors who exposed them to culture, and their post-war lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BREWenner, Jann
Summary: "Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from Burning Man to the White House. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir brings you inside the music, the politics, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WENNER, JANN S. WENWenner, Jann
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and Rolling Stone founder comes "a visit to the Mount Olympus of rock" in this remarkable collection of new and collected interviews with the greatest rock stars and cultural icons of our time (Kirkus Reviews). During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 WENWenner, Jann.
Summary: Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing. Now, two of his colleagues have interviewed the Good Doctor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.92 THOMPSON, HUNTER S SEYGrenier, Robert (Robert L.)
Summary: The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani Intelligence, Grenier launched the “southern campaign,” orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s rise to power in eighty-eight chaotic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 GREJenner, Caryn
Summary: Shares the experiences of important women in history, including Aung San Suu Kyi, Arianna Huffington, and Madam C.J. Walker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 JENJenner, Caitlyn
Summary: "Imagine denying your core and soul. Then add to it the most impossible expectations that people have for you because you are the personification of The American Male Athlete." Bruce Jenner, the celebrated Olympic icon and later the patriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, seemed to be living a dream life of success, fame, and prosperity. But the all-American image and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017