Summary: Experience all four seasons of Nathan Fielder's entrepreneurial genius as he provides real small businesses with strategies no traditional consultant would dare attempt. From the infamous gas rebate excursion to the grand opening of Dumb Starbucks to the epic feature-length series finale, "Finding Frances". This 9-disc set also includes never-before-seen footage, deleted scenes, and brand-new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central / Paramount 2018
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Summary: Bane is on the loose at a Gotham City baseball game! An extra dose of venom has made him stronger than ever. Can Batman and Nightwing drain Bane of his powers, or will the duo pull the plug on this case?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLELytle, Lulu
Summary: Rattan: a world of elegance and charm examines the history and craftsmanship of rattan furniture and showcases rattan's appeal through archival images of beautiful interiors including Madeleine Castaing's winter garden in Paris, Michael Taylor's own Californian beach house, the Titanic's Café Parisian and the Billy Baldwin designed Mr. Kennedy's beauty salon in New York City. Rattan's many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 749 LYTFloyd, John Lewis
Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsmith Press 2004
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Summary: "Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' But who was the real Nathan Hale? In this well-researched biography, M. Williams Phelps separates historical fact from long-standing myth to reveal the life of Nathan Hale, a young man who deserves to be remembered as an original American patriot."--Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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Summary: Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history's roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HALSummary: It tells the shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random just to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PERCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Hired by Marilyn Monroe to listen to threatening phone calls from a movie studio that wants to fire her, private investigator Nate Heller discovers a conspiracy to murder the iconic star and faces a career-ending challenge when Monroe turns up dead. Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLFirstenberg, Arthur
Summary: "The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an environmental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are by now so entrenched in the human psyche that new research, and testimony by those who are being injured, are not enough to change the course that society has set. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 787.87 WHEHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINSwamy, Shruti
Summary: 'A young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009
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Summary: "Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. This fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women is also the deconstruction of an American myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 WOOCapucilli, Alyssa Satin
Summary: "Young readers can learn all about what happens at yoga class in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with sweet text and photographs of yogis-in-training! It's the first day of yoga class in this early reader by Biscuit creator Alyssa Satin Capucilli. Roll out your yoga mat! What will it be like? Yoga students stand on sticky mats and learn poses with animal names like "downward dog" and "lion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE CAPVillano, Laura
Summary: "In this book, illustrations and step by step instructions show and tell young readers how to do yoga poses in chairs. Breathing techniques, SEL concepts of wellness and mindfulness, and benefits of the practice are also introduced. Original illustrations and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about the basics of yoga and how they can easily incorporate it in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Owl Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.7 VILNaman, Christine Pisera
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R NamanGayle, Caleb
Summary: "A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.004 GAYTerry, Jim
Summary: "A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2020