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Alex Rider adventure (Recorded Books, LLC) Alex Rider adventures 8 Building blocks of finance Commissario Brunetti 31 Hannah Swensen mysteries #13 Hannah Swensen mysteries ; #13 Hannah Swensen mystery (Recorded Books, LLC) ; bk. 13 Inspector Montalbano mystery My guide to money Sewing studio mystery 1Pearl, Melissa Sherman
Summary: "Kids can make a difference too! In this How Do They Help? collection featuring charities started by children, readers will explore the ways Sheltering Books contributes positively to the world. Discover this nonprofit's work and what problems they look to solve. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 028.5 PEAGonzález, Echo Elise
Summary: A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces how and why people donate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From its humble beginnings in the 1890s through today, the Assistance League has been creating ripples and changing lives for over 125 years. This enjoyable documentary tells the story of Anne Banning, a forgotten American Pioneer who formed the Assistance League and changed charity. Ann Benson (Betty White's Off Their Rockers and Ann Asks) hosts a journey that includes multiple chapters of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEBEgger, Robert.
Contents: Introduction : "Brother, can you spare a dime?" : a brief history of the handout -- Soup kitchen confidential -- Doing good versus doing right -- Feeding the tapirs -- Starfish and random acts -- Whom are you serving? -- M=EC² -- The tangible link -- Taking Troy -- Take it to 11 -- Keeping the faith -- Grab the future by the face -- Epilogue : Redemption city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.7068 EGGHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: "Abbey Chandler has barely arrived in Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. Through it all, she keeps looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Kristof, Nicholas D.
Summary: "From the authors of the #1 New York Times best-selling Half the Sky, a unique and essential narrative about making a difference in the world--a roadmap to becoming a conscientious global citizen. Equal in urgency and compassion to Half the Sky, this galvanizing new book from the acclaimed husband and wife team is even more ambitious in scale: nothing less than a deep examination of people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 360 KRISummary: Kansas City publicist Darcy ventures to the Emerald Educational Trust for the job of a lifetime. Here she will help VP Glen Goodman and his team find the know-how, courage, and heart to help a charity in need for Christmas. Darcy and Glen begin to realize they have everything in common. Will a surprise revelation at the big Christmas gala put an end to their promising romance before it really...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family IfSummary: Pink ribbons, the symbol of the breast cancer prevention movement, are everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums - the list goes on and on. They make people feel good, as if engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? More and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Wouldn't it be something if some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINCamilleri, Andrea.
Summary: "Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and - acutely aware of his age - he is beginning to grow weary of the endless violence he encounters." "Then a young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint as to her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: "Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HORSchiller, Amy
Summary: A journalist, academic and consultant evaluates the history of philanthropy, from the ideas of St. Augustine to the work of Lebron James, arguing that philanthropy can no longer be premised around basic survival and that public institutions must assume that burden so that philanthropy can support human flourishing as originally intended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 361.7 SCHColby, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Money ColbyFluke, Joanne
Summary: When the mayor's wife orders over 1,000 cookies, it's just another busy summer day in the life of Hannah Swensen. But when Hannah and her sister discover an old boyfriend murdered at the big magic show, the cook turned detective must solve the case as her reputation is at stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLULa Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)
Summary: During World War One, Ellen La Motte became one of the first American war nurses to volunteer to go to Europe—and she witnessed its horrors firsthand as she worked near the Western front. Her controversial book, which the US banned in 1918, vividly and graphically describes the "backwash of war": the dirty, smelly, lice- and disease-ridden bodies of the wounded French soldiers she cared for....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conway 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LAMSagawa, Shirley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.408 SAGSalamon, Lester M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foundation Center 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.763 SALFluke, Joanne
Summary: Hannah has excellent reasons to despise the caddish Bradford Ramsey, as do many other women. Nevertheless, she'd rather not expose her youthful indiscretions, especially to her policeman beau. Hannah is very busy with the mayor's wife Lake Eden, Minn. charity event at which Ramsey is host. So what should she say when she stumbles upon his murdered corpse?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLUHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: When Alex discovers the full plans of Desmond McCain that would create and epic disaster and kill millions, he is forced to seek the protection of M16. Alex finds himself manipulated in a deadly game that could destroy an entire East African country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORLeon, Donna
Summary: "What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: LP FIC LEOSalloomi, M. A. (Mohammed A.)
Contents: The new competitors and the shift of power -- The campaign against Islamic charities after 9/11 -- Islamic charities in the US Congress -- The declared objective of the campaign : analysis -- Case studies Islamic charities under American hegemony -- Mistakes of Islamic and non-Islamic organizations : a double standard -- The motives and objectives -- Conclusions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorHouse 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 SALSchwab, Tim
Summary: "A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023