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Aerospace engineers United States Biography Americans Solomon Islands Fiction International cooking Missing in action Fiction Montana Fiction Solomon Islands Fiction United States United States. Coast Guard Fiction United States. Drug Enforcement Administration. World War, 1939-1945 Solomon Islands FictionSummary: Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STEHigham, Scott
Summary: "American Cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HIGHickam, Homer.
Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true. With the grace of a natural storyteller,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 1999
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Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN CHIHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICHickam, Homer H.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HICDrug Church
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DRUSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARHickam, Homer H.
Summary: Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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Summary: Soon after paleontologist Norman "Pick" Pickford happens on a discovery in Montana that could prove to be revolutionary, a menacing visitor is murdered and Mike Wire, retired L.A. homicide detective and ranch foreman, realizes that the fossils may be worth killing for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICHickam, Homer H.
Summary: It's 1943 and World War II rages on. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the U.S. Navy begins the grand strategy of throwing her marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific. But the young Americans go up against fanatical defenders, who revel in snipers, big guns, and human wave attacks from which there is no escape save death. Critically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICHigham, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 HIGHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In 1943, Coast Guard captain Josh Thurlow leads a desperate venture to Japanese-held islands of the South Pacific to track down a Medal of Honor hero and an ambassador's missing son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HICHickam, Homer H.
Summary: Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4092 HICHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Contents: California roll (featuring Stevie Wonder) (4:12) -- This city (3:33) -- R U A freak (3:45) -- Awake (3:43) -- So many pros (4:06) -- Peaches n cream (featuring Charlie Wilson) (4:44) -- Edibles (featuring T.I.) (3:21) -- I knew that (3:59) -- Run away (featuring Gwen Stefani) (5:13) -- I'm ya Dogg (featuring Kendrick Lamar & Rick Ross) (4:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Doggy Style 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP SNOSnoop Dogg
Summary: Following the breakout success of his first cookbook, From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen, Snoop Dogg returns with this new collection of recipes in collaboration with his friend and iconic Bay Area rapper E-40. Drawing inspiration from both rappers' musical catalogs, their favorite meals to cook and eat together, and E-40's Filipino food business, Lumpia, here are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SNOHigham, Scott.
Summary: It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of young intern Chandra Levy and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. But Chandra Levy haunted. Six years after her disappearance, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors their idea: Revisit the case and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 HIGGriffiths, Doug (Doug Gordon)
Summary: "Whether you are a municipal councillor, a business owner, a volunteer or a citizen-at-large this book will provide you with easy and direct strategies to help your community, while also showing you the prevalent attitudes that sabotage success and what to do to overcome those attitudes. It doesn't matter if you want to make improvements in community healthcare, education, infrastructure,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 13 Ways Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1 GRIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOIDoig, Ivan.
Summary: A fifteenth anniversary edition of the autobiography of a newspaperman/editor who grew up in the wilderness of Montana, with a new preface in which the author discusses how he came to write the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992