Ingraham, Christopher
Summary: The hilarious, charming, and candid story of Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400--the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 INGRAHAM, CHRISTOPHER INGBoltanski, Christophe
Summary: In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLSorrentino, Christopher
Summary: "When Christopher Sorrentino's mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria's life took her to the heart of New York's vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn--a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SORRENTINO, CHRISTOPHER SORBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BUCKLEY, CHRISTOPHER BUCBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B BUCKLEY BUCZara, Christopher
Summary: "For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Hicks, Deron R.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Colophon Letterford and her cousin Julian continue their quest to uncover their family's treasure as new clues lead them to Oxford, England, seeking to unravel a connection to Christopher Marlowe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICRoosa, Christopher A.
Summary: Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar orbit or landed on the moon. The first book written by an offspring of an Apollo astronaut to focus on growing up in that era, Son of Apollo...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ROOSA, CHRISTOPHER ROOSummary: It is the moving portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" raise a family while nurturing a community of hip-hop artists in their home music studio. It's a safe space where all are welcome, but this creative sanctuary can't always shield them from the strife that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF QUEThiel, J. Homer
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Homer Thiel 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 THIFagan, Kate
Summary: "Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAGAN, KATE FAGYolen, Jane
Summary: A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOLDrake, Shannon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DrakeSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESSummary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Gouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUKallen, Stuart A.
Summary: Uses primary source documents to follow Christopher Columbus on his journeys to the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 970.01 KALWren, Christopher S. (Christopher Sale)
Summary: Walking tours through regions in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire are complemented by the author's description of ecological oddities, natural element challenges, and his rite of passage into retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 WRENelson, Robin
Summary: Simple text, photographs, and illustrations introduce the history and traditions of Columbus Day in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NELHenry, Marian S.
Summary: "This book paints a picture of the early settlers of the Genesee Country who were among the first wave of migrants moving westward after the Revolutionary War. Author Marian Henry begins with families enumerated in the 1790 Federal Census and links these first settlers of present-day Steuben County to their eastern origins -- usually New England, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey. The sketches cover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 HenryHodges, Margaret
Summary: Relates the story of Offero, whose service to Jesus brought him the name of Christopher the Christ-bearer and caused him to be the patron saint of travelers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.1 HODDean, Becky (Becky Lynn)
Summary: An aspiring nature photographer. Kenzie Reed can't get her family of optometrists to take her art seriously. Resigned to putting aside her dreams and join the family business, She makes up Jacob, a fake, boring boyfriend, to get her parents off her back. When the Reeds arrive in Hawaii for spring break, "Jacob" shows up at the airport-- and joins their vacation! -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007