Summary: Looks at the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of rumspringa which is a period in a teenager's life during which they are set free to explore the world outside the Amish life. This is so that they can make an informed decision before they make a commitment to join the church at adulthood. Follows four teenagers in their time of discovery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2002

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Cox, Patty

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co., Inc. 2008

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May, Molly Caro.

Summary: "Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity as a global woman from nowhere. But, on the verge of turning thirty years old, everything changed. Molly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014

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Summary: Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Axe, David/ Bors, Matt.

Summary: Takes us to some dangerous war zones, including Lebanon, Somalia, and Chad, alongside war correspondent David Axe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 0000

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Chatto, Beth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2000

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Max

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2005

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Catte, Elizabeth

Summary: Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's twentieth-century eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2021

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Catton, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MJF Books 1986

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Catton, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Promontory Press 1987

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Catton, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1956

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: Examines the history of America from Columbus' explorations and the colonial era through the War of 1812.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978

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Catton, Bruce

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1969

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Catton, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1953

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King, Rax

Summary: "TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021

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Mak, Tim

Summary: "A blistering exposae of the National Rifle Association, revealing its people, power, corruption, and ongoing downfall, from acclaimed NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021

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Mak, Geert.

Summary: Journalist Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. In the voices of prominent figures and unknown players, Mak combines the larger story of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007

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Mao, Zedong

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1990

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Varley, Dax

Summary: In the four months since his mother was taken by demons, Max has been studying and perfecting a means of killing them with a slingshot, witch hazel, and an arcade token with a sunburst emblem--but now other women have been disappearing and finding out what the demons are up to has become a matter of increasing urgency.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016

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Casto, L. Dalton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: African Ways Pub. 1999

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Lax, Eric.

Summary: For more than three decades, Woody Allen has been talking regularly and candidly with Eric Lax, and has given him singular and unfettered access to his film sets, his editing room, and his thoughts and observations. In discussions that begin in 1971 and continue into 2007, Allen discusses every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own films and the work of directors he admires. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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Warwick, Mal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Strathmoor Press 1994

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