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Summary: The story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. Piecing together a minute-by-minute account, journalist Hammer re-creates harrowing scenes of death, escape, and rescue. He also places the tumultuous events in the context of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952.136 HAMHammer, Joshua
Summary: Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 025 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 025.8 HAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 025.8 HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
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Summary: "A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs-and the wildlife detective determined to stop him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020