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Baltimore (Md.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Children of the rich Michigan Biography Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Assassination attempt, 1861 Maclean, Donald 1913-1983 National characteristics, American Presidents Assassination attempts United States Stroh Brewery Company. Stroh family Stroh, Frances Family United StatesFilter By Subjects
Baltimore (Md.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Children of the rich Michigan Biography Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Assassination attempt, 1861 Maclean, Donald 1913-1983 National characteristics, American Presidents Assassination attempts United States Stroh Brewery Company. Stroh family Stroh, Frances Family United StatesSummary: NPR reports on the Vietnam War, from its origins to the major battles, through the fall of Saigon, to repercussions of the conflict still felt today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2013
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 959.704 NPRSummary: NPR marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War with firsthand accounts from veterans themselves, as well as insightful commentary from leading historians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.3 NPRBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: "He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial America. Discover this founding father's incredible true story: his brilliant scholarship and military career; his groundbreaking and enduring policy, which shapes American government today; his salacious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER BROChaplin, Joyce E.
Summary: For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-- by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. Chaplin shows how the desire to take on the planet has tested the courage and capacity of the bold men and women who took up the challenge. Their exploits show us why we think of the Earth as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 910.4 CHACozzens, Peter
Summary: A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 978 COZDidion, Joan.
Summary: Blue nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 813.54 DIDION, JOAN DIDHerriot, James
Summary: James Herriot illuminated the rich and rewarding day-to-day life of a small-town veterinarian, taking hundreds of thousands of listeners on a journey with him across the dales. He introduces a cast of truly unforgettable characters: humans, dogs, horses, lambs-- even parakeets-- all of them revealed with infinite fascination, affection and insight.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 636.089 HERHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Nantucket writer Madeline King has a new novel coming out, The Rumor, and it's got bestseller potential. But Madeline is terrified, because in her desperation to revive her career, she's done the unthinkable: The Rumor reveals the truth behind an actual affair involving her best friend, Grace. And that's not the only strain on Madeline and Grace's friendship; one fateful night, the two women...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILLogue, Mark.
Summary: Presents the life of the Australian speech therapist who helped the English king, George VI, overcome a lifelong speech disorder and become an eloquent leader of his people during the difficult days of World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 941.084 LOGMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier, in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn't want an antislavery president in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.7092 MELMeyer, Joyce
Summary: Building on her signature message of using the mind to master difficult emotions, the author focuses on the most destructive, insidious one of all: anger. Anger is especially hard to handle for many Christians who have learned from childhood that "good Christians don't get angry." She argues that properly handled, anger is an alert system that something is wrong and needs to be resolved. In...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 248.4 MEYMurphy, Brian
Summary: "The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 910.9363 MURPerlmutter, David
Summary: Neurologist David Perlmutter exposes a finding that's been buried in medical literature for far too long: carbs can destroy your brain. Even so-called healthy carbs like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, epilepsy, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, decreased libido, and much more.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 613.26 PERPhilipps, Roland
Summary: Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented; until now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 MACLEAN, DONALD PHIRather, Dan
Summary: "In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed us, such as the struggle for civil rights; and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 323.6 RATRice, Jerry
Summary: "As a three-time Super Bowl winner and Super Bowl MVP, Jerry Rice has firsthand knowledge of what it takes to win championships. In this celebration of the biggest game in professional sports, Rice counts down the fifty greatest moments from the grand, fifty-year history of the Super Bowl. Through scores of first-person accounts from the players and coaches themselves, readers get new and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.332 RICRoach, Mary.
Summary: "The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 612.3 ROARoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gradually ascended in the world of New York politics to reach the presidency in 1932. Throughout his three terms, Eleanor Roosevelt was not only intimately involved in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Schrefer, Eliot
Summary: This groundbreaking YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is a well-researched and teen-friendly exploration of the gamut of queer behaviors observed in animals. So. Just how queer are ducks? We're taught the natural order means male-female pairs for each animal on Earth. Darwin's theory of natural selection only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Scottoline, Lisa
Summary: Get ready for some wit, wisdom, and warmth from this new collection by the bestselling duo. Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. You will identify with their tales of guilt and fall in love with them and fierce (grand)Mother Mary. This sixth volume will not disappoint as it hits the humorous and poignant note that fans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Sedaris, Amy.
Summary: With her special brand of humor, Sedaris shows how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins; how to remember which kind of glue to use with which material; how to create your own craft room and avoid the most common crafting accidents; and, how to cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, and many more recipes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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Summary: If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Stashower, Daniel.
Summary: Presents the true story of the "Baltimore Plot" conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War, tracing the efforts of detective Allan Pinkerton and private eye Kate Warne to identify and stop the would-be killers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013