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Ham, Anthony

Summary: Lonely Planet's Scandinavia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Be awed by the aurora borealis, explore waterfalls in Iceland and be inspired by innovative Scandinavian design; all with your trusted travel companion.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023

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Chandler, Matt

Summary: "This is the true story of one man's bravery, ingenuity, and daring determination as he trekked thousands of feet up in the mountains. Readers will learn about the struggles Sven Somme endured as he eluded 900 German soldiers set out to capture him."--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 CHA

Glaser, Gabrielle

Summary: "The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 GLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7340 GLA

Grue, Jan

Summary: "In this essayistic autobiography, Jan Grue reflects on social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRUE, JAN GRU

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

Prager, Joshua

Summary: Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and witnessed her final moments. This book presents her life in full.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 PRA

Hershorn, Tad.

Contents: "All I wanted was my freedom" -- "A marvelous crucible" -- Cole train -- "The opener" -- Let freedom swing -- Norman Granz versus -- Mambo jambo -- Enter Ella and Oscar -- The continental -- "I feel most at home in the studio" -- Starry nights -- "That tall old man standing next to Ella Fitzgerald" -- The jazz hurricane -- "The lost generation" -- Duke, Prez, and Billie -- Joie de Verve --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANZ, NORMAN HER

Summary: Take a dream cruise around the world's most dramatic coastlines to more than 20 countries. The stunning landscapes of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton; the beauty of the Caribbean; the Mayan ruins; the Panama Canal; Big Sur's coastline; Alaska's wilderness. Norway's fjords; Scotland's lochs and glens; the Rhine's castles and medieval cities; France's rivers; Lisbon's contrasts; Gibraltar's caves;...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Questar Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.2 SCE

Staley, Bill.

Summary: "Transitioning from conventional foods to a grain-free lifestyle can be a daunting proposition to most people, but it doesn't have to be. In this highly original cookbook, Hayley and Bill show you how easy it is to take any dish and make it paleo! The Food Lovers have adapted recipes from Chinese, French, Mexican and classic American meals"--Page 4 of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Victory Belt Pub. 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 STA

Jorgensen, Katrina

Summary: "A fun cookbook with recipes that are safe for kids who are allergic to wheat"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.56 JOR

Bascomb, Neal

Summary: Chronicles the efforts of the Allied forces to thwart the Nazi occupiers of Norway in their effort to build an atomic bomb.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.54 BAS

Hollway, Don

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Summary: "The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARALD III HOL

Barnhoorn, Catherine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook Barnhoorn

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Flett, Julie

Summary: A book demonstrating colors in English as well as in Cree, along with the pronunciation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Native Explore 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD FLE

Strøksnes, Morten Andreas

Summary: In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STROKSNES, MORTEN STR

Kerr, Jeffrey

Summary: "Jeffrey Kerr is a Realtor with RE/MAX Unique Inc., Brokerage. He has over 21 years of experience in the exciting and very dynamic Toronto real estate market. He shares his knowledge and extensive experience helping clients buy and sell barrier free, accessible houses and condominiums." - back cover

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home Kerr

Bascomb, Neal

Summary: April 9, 1940. The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping up a silent fjord. Soon planes full of paratroopers roar over the mountains, and in two months, the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They cripple food supplies to the Norwegian people. And at the Vemork power plant, they gain access to an essential ingredient in the weapon that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 BAS

Frey, Sarah

Summary: "One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREY, SARAH FRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREY FRE

Seierstad, Åsne

Summary: "On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.1 SEI

Orlean, Susan

Summary: Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 027 ORL

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 027 ORL

O'Reilly, Bill

Summary: "Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Company 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 ORE

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ORE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.5318 ORE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars O'Reilly

Nagorski, Andrew

Summary: "Describes the small group of men and women who sought out former Nazis all over the world after the Nuremberg trials, refusing to let their crimes be forgotten or allowing them to quietly live inconspicuous, normal lives,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 NAG

Summary: 1966, drought and an exploding population confronted India with the imminent threat of a severe famine, a potential disaster that many scientists and intellectuals feared only presaged global catastrophes to come, as the world's population outstripped its ability to produce food. In search of a lasting solution, India turned to Norman Borlaug, an unassuming plant breeder from Iowa whose...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAN

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