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Duncan, Arne

Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUN

Woodward, Bill.

Summary: History of lumbermen and lumbering operations during the 1800s, and on Civilian Conservation Corps activities from 1933 to 1942, in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Woodward & Woodward Publishing 0000

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Woodward

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 WOO

Summary: Tells the true story of boxer Roberto Duran and his trainer, Ray Arcel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HAN

Dunn, William J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 DUN

Walsh, Robb

Summary: Compiles chili recipes and recipes that incorporate chili, including such offerings as lobster chili, green chile chicken, Branson chili cheese fries, and pork and whiskey chili.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8 WAL

Lawton, Wendy.

Summary: Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progess," during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAW

Van Sciver, Noah

Summary: "In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul Bunyan tall tales. Highlights the impact of clear-cutting old-growth forests. With contributions by Native authors as well as historical maps, photos, and a bibliography."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2023

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Gruber, Penelope

Summary: In this graphic adaptation of the American folktale, Paul Bunyan is the biggest and strongest merman in the underwater city of Atlantis; at twelve years old he has already dragged the city away from a volcano and rescued a baby blue whale who is now his companion--but now he has to protect the citizens of Atlantis from five mega-sharks who are looking to have mermen for lunch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FAR

Rubin, Susan Goldman

Summary: Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 RUB

Macallister, Greer

Summary: "Electrifying ... a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride."--Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's rise during one of the nation's times of crisis, bringing to life a fiercely independent woman whose forgotten triumphs helped sway the fate of the country. With...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAC

Macallister, Greer

Summary: Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Perricone, Nicholas.

Summary: Describes a three-tiered approach to acne management including diet, nutritional supplements, and topical applications, offering additional advice on how to address age-related acne and treat acne scars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperResource 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.53 PER

Frank, Anne

Summary: This definitive edition, featuring a new translation, is the diary as Anne Frank wrote it, containing entries about her burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT People Frank

Johansen, Iris

Summary: "Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb--until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful criminal empires......

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOH

Larkin, Deborah Holt

Summary: "Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother in-law--a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman--had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LAR

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Summary: One of America's leading attorneys offers an impassioned defense of the state of Israel, arguing that, although the country is not perfect, it remains the only outpost of democracy in the Middle East, answering critics who accuse Israel of being an imperialist power and documenting the facts about the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DER

Summary: Follows the adventures of Duncan MacLeod, an Immortal warrior, who in the present day owns and operates an antique store with his lover and soul-mate Tessa Noel, the only mortal to know his secret.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002

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Wukovits, John F.

Summary: "The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible 23-day crusade to keep his crew alive"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WUK

Berne, Emma Carlson

Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KEN

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society, Inc. 2000

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.5774 G.T. CO ACME

Williams, Emma.

Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WIL

Arce, Julissa

Summary: "Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 ARC

Butel, Jane.

Summary: "In all, more than 160 recipes to feed the irresistible passion and teach the methods of 'Chili Madness.'"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8 BUT

Summary: Cemetery inscroptions of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Arundel Genealogical Society 1982

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 GUR

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