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Abandoned! : towns without peopleFirst Reformed Church of Easton (Easton, Pa.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1973
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1Gup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPTimmermeister, Kurt.
Summary: A restaurateur details the hard work involved with starting a dairy farm and describes a feast that was two years in the making, using only vegetables he harvested and animals he raised to supply the meal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59797 TIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.59797 TIMGup, Ted.
Summary: During the Great Depression, the impoverished residents of Canton, Ohio were offered ten dollars to pen their tales of woe. Seventy-five years later, author Ted Gup came across these moving stories and made it his goal to chronicle the families' subsequent generations. Here, Gup's sweeping narratives embody the struggles faced by the quintessential American family over the last several decades.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.16 Gup 2010Summary: The original nominal return of the various nineteenth-century censuses are among the most commonly used and most useful of genealogical sources, providing the name, age, birthplace, ethnic origin, and occupation of every resident at a point in time, in this instance 2 April 1871. It is the only source that comes close to being a comprehensive listing of the population. Why 1871? There are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3713 INDSummary: Killer-elite commandos out to hijack the USS Missouri's nuclear arsenal overpower the crew, except for the cook, who just happens to be an ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE UNDGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.162Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.162 GUPRichardson, Edmund
Summary: "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASSON, CHARLES RICAston, Felicity
Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 ASTSummary: Under siege: Casey Ryback is a one-man strike force, waging war against hijackers intent on commandeering a battleship's arsenal of nuclear missiles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "This is the story of Kiyo Sato and her family and their experience in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps during WWII."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SATYoung, Rosamond McPherson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 YOUNG, ROSAMOND YOUSummary: Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban South California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Video 2007
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Summary: "The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ASTOR COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AstorContents: Plat book of Newaygo County, Michigan ([1900]) -- Farm plat book (1955) -- Farm plat book with index to owners (1962) -- Tri-annual atlas & plat book (1965) -- Triennial atlas & plat book (1968, 1971) -- Atlas & plat book (1974, 1977) -- Land atlas & plat book (1980) -- Land atlas and plat book (1982) -- Land atlas, plat book and sportsman's guide (1983, 1986, 1988) -- Land atlas, plat book,...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers 1900
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912 PLAT Newaygo 2010-11Blake, Kevin
Summary: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Salton Sea resort area was a vacationers paradise. People looking to go boating, swimming, and fishing flocked to Californias largest lake. Homes, hotels, and shops sprang up as more and more people moved to the region. However, something was lurking in the lakes calm waters. Soon, swimmers began to pass by globs of green algae and breathe in a rotten-egg stench....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 BLAUnited Methodist Church of Manton (Manton, Mich.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Church 1900
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377467 UnitedSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Clavin, Tom
Summary: "The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003