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Summary: Parenting Children with Diabetes offers parents a 360-degree view of what is happening to their child living with diabetes, providing special tools, insight, and education to help parents and their children navigate diabetes management, communicate clearly and effectively, and live safely and healthfully in the world around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 LEBTebow, Tim
Summary: "First, he was a beloved college football champion, media sensation, and best-selling author drafted in the first round of the 2010 Draft. Then he had a miracle playoff run with the Denver Broncos before being traded to the New York Jets. After one season he was cut by New York, next signed by the New England Patriots, then let go after training camp. Tim Tebow has achieved big victories and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 248.4 TEBTebow, Tim
Summary: One of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Summary: Presents information about the author's strong faith, how it allowed him to experience the ups and downs without letting them define him, and advises reader on how they can achieve this type of resilience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 248 TEBMorillo, Elio
Summary: "Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORILLO, ELIO MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MORILLO MORPatel, Eboo
Summary: The author, a young American Muslim of Indian background, juxtaposes his college years as an angry young radical with a description of how he came to see the possibilities of religious pluralism and founded the Interfaith Youth Core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 PATAlbom, Mitch
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.12 ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.12 ALBGreen, Elon
Summary: ""In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." -David Grann,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.152 GREEbon, Martin
Contents: But can you prove it? By M. Ebon.--Lullaby from a previous life, by F. Portland.--The two Alexandrinas, by E. Brenner.--A Canadian soldier who "took the walls," by A. Mackenzie.--Reincarnation in Burma, by L. Markham.--The return of a woman who died in childbirth, by J. S. Singer.--Rebirth of a salesman: an Edgar Cayce reading, by V. M. Shelly.--Thirty centuries later, by H. Curtis.--I will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9013 REIEliot, Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.13 ELIEliot, Marc.
Summary: From the acclaimed bestselling biographer Marc Eliot comes a definitive look at the life of Steve McQueen---one of Hollywood's most iconic actors who was nicknamed "the King of Cool."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCQUEEN, STEVE ELIJohn, Elton.
Summary: The superstar musician and songwriter describes the personal toll the AIDS epidemic has taken on his life and discusses his efforts to break down social barriers and build compassion through his charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 JOHEliot, Marc.
Summary: Offers a portrait of the private life of the beloved American film star, following Stewart from his small-town Pennsylvania youth, to the heights of Hollywood stardom, to his distinguished military service, and his family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEWART, JIMMY ELIAlbom, Mitch
Summary: Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson arrived together at the University of Michigan and succeeded in going to the NCAA Championship as freshmen and as sophomores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1993
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Summary: "Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ALBAlbom, Mitch
Summary: The author visits with his former college professor, who gave him sound advice and guidance when he was younger. In the last months of his life, Morrie teaches Mitch abouth lessons in how to live once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.12 ALBJohn, Elton
Summary: "Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt, and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHN, ELTON JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHN JOHLeibovits, Sara
Summary: "This is the powerful true story of Sara Leibovits and the incredible pain and hardships she went through during her time in the death camp. Yet despite the horrors she faced, she always tried to maintain her family's values of courage, faith, and kindness to others. In this compelling memoir, Sara's story is intertwined with that of her daughter, Eti. Seventy years after the horrors of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEIAlbom, Mitch
Summary: When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 296.7 ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 296.7 ALBAlbom, Mitch
Summary: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.12 ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AlbomPorter, Eliot
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich House 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 POREliot, Marc.
Summary: An in-depth biography of the legendary film hero who became a symbol of American masculinity and patriotism explores the many contradictions of his life and how his career paralleled much of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAYNE, JOHN ELIEliot, Marc.
Summary: A portrait of the charismatic actor provides a look at his turbulent personal life and extraordinary Hollywood career, offering a glimpse of his troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, dabbling with LSD, and other dramatic episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.4 ELIEliot, Marc.
Summary: One of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and '70s with classics like The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt, Steve McQueen is renowned as one of the most exciting and iconic actors to ever come out of Hollywood. Filled with original research, new interviews, and rare photos, this definitive biography of "the King of Cool" includes intimate details of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011