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Summary: An unemployed architect when Hitler came to power in 1933, Albert Speer was soon designing the Third Reich's most important buildings. In 1942 Hitler appointed him Armaments Minister and he quadrupled production, an astonishing achievement that kept the German Army in the field and prolonged the war. Yet Speer's life was full of contradictions. The only member of the Nazi elite with whom Hitler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 SPEER, ALBERT FESFelt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELMerchant-Dest, Simona.
Summary: "Take your knowledge of top-down and seamless knitting to a higher level by learning how to convert and adapt lace, cable, and color patterns to circular knitting and shaping techniques"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Pr. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 MERNest, Michael Wallace
Summary: "A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady's success made politicians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Regina Press, University of Regina 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 NESBest, Nicholas
Summary: "In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini's capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In Five Days That Shocked the World, Nicholas Best thrills readers with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.534 BESEstrada, Alfredo José.
Summary: Takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. Estrada reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 ESTKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Summary: "Student loan debt in the U.S. now exceeds $1 trillion, more than the nation's credit-card debt. This timely book explains how and why student loans evolved, the concerns they've raised along the way, and how each policy designed to fix student loans winds up making things worse. The authors, a father and son team, provide an intergenerational, interdisciplinary approach to understanding how,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of California Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.362 BESBest, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BESCrest, Mason
Summary: Jump off a cliff. Slide down a mountain. Soar 20 feet above a snowy halfpipe. These are just a few of the things extreme sport athletes willingly do every day, things the average person would never consider attempting. With the overwhelming success of sports network ESPNs X Games, the subculture of extreme sports became mainstream, even becoming part of the Olympic Games. American snowboarder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 796 CREFerut, Michael
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Gettysburg. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 133.1 FERFeld, Brad.
Contents: Introduction -- Philosophy -- Communication -- Startup company life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1 FELFisk, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 FISCost, Jay
Summary: "How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history -- his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist papers and then helped to found the Republican party just a few years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADISON, JAMES COSGeist, Valerius.
Summary: Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1996
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.643 GEIFenn, Annie
Summary: "Scientific studies show that the choices we make today about what we eat help determine our mental health as we age. In The Brain Health Kitchen, Dr. Annie Fenn gives readers a guide to preserving cognitive ability through food, with 100 recipes to promote mental acuity. Fenn, a doctor turned chef, has organized the book into 10 chapters representing the most neuroprotective foods: berries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 FENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8 FENFeser, Edward.
Contents: Bad religion -- Greeks bearing gifts -- Getting medieval -- Scholastic aptitude -- Descent of the modernists -- Aristotle's revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Augustine's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 FESFerut, Michael.
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 133.1 FERFies, Brian
Summary: "Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 FIEGess, Denise.
Summary: Thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II, but just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu--some one and a half million people. The story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.533 GESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.533 GESFell, Derek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Southern Books 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712 FELFels, Tony
Summary: In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post{u2013}World War II era up through the present. Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 FELFerut, Michael
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about the RMS Queen Mary. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 133.1 FERFunt, Juliet
Summary: "Forget the 24/7 lifestyle; productivity expert Juliet Funt explains how to avoid burnout, speed execution, reduce waste, and help teams do more meaningful work by introducing strategic pauses--what she calls "whitespaces"--into their work days and theirpersonal lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021