Kolker, Robert.
Summary: "For a time, Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living a dream life of domestic harmony and upward mobility in Colorado. Their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest was born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. But by the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia. And inside the walls of a once happy home, a devastating story of psychological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KOLKolker, Robert.
Summary: "A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five Craigslist prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York magazine cover story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 KOLKolker, Robert Phillip
Summary: This immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUBRICK, STANLEY KOLSummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXKolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: "In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2024
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Summary: Presents an account of the legendary hurricane to assess its destruction of Galveston, role in thousands of deaths, and influence on American history and culture. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: The "Today Show" co-anchor shares his life lessons on success and happiness in a humorous essay collection. These days, the road to success can feel jam-packed with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no one knows that better than Al Roker-beloved cohost of the Today Show, weatherperson extraordinaire, and the man we all secretly wish we could turn to for wisdom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 ROKKolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world people are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop 'super coral' that can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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Summary: "Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books 2024
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Summary: Draws on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists, and other researchers to discuss the five devastating mass extinctions on Earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 KOLKolbert, Kathryn
Summary: "While Roe v. Wade is a household name in America, few are aware of the impact of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court's 1992 ruling that preserved but redefined and substantially limited abortion rights, especially for the most marginalized women. Casey rather than Roe has established the constitutional standards that today govern abortion in the U.S. When pundits talk about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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Summary: The popular television personality discusses his battle with weight loss, describing his initial successes after bypass surgery, his efforts to get back on track after regaining lost weight, and his confrontation with goal-compromising childhood issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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Summary: "A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood--the deadliest flood in U.S. history--from NBC host and legendary weather authority Al Roker. Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain--nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours--swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: "After waking up the neighborhood with The Morning Show Murders, and keeping readers up late solving The Midnight Show Murders, Al Roker returns with his most tantalizing mystery to date. Celebrity chef turned sleuth Billy Blessing finds his plate full of danger once again, as secrets from his long-buried past threaten to make a comeback. Before Billy had his five-star restaurant in New York,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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Summary: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Al Roker and Dick Lochte's The Talk Show Murders. Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water when a brutal killing cancels a TV show--and its host--during its debut. Billy has reluctantly agreed to fly westward and play second banana on a new late-night talk show hosted by comic Desmond O'Day in Los Angeles, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Roker, Al.
Summary: After waking up the neighborhood with The Morning Show Murders, and keeping readers up late solving The Midnight Show Murders, Al Roker returns with his most tantalizing mystery to date. Celebrity chef turned sleuth Billy Blessing finds his plate full of danger once again, as secrets from his long-buried past threaten to make a comeback. Before Billy had his five-star restaurant in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Roker, Al
Summary: Sequel to the author's mystery debut, "The Morning show murders." Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water, when a brutal killing cancels a TV show -- and its host -- during its debut. -- Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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Summary: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Al Roker and Dick Lochte's The Midnight Show Murders . As famous for his popular cooking segment on Wake Up America! as for his swank Manhattan bistro, Billy Blessing can add prime murder suspect to his impressive list of accomplishments. Because when one of the network's top honchos ends up dead, it's a poisoned serving of Blessing's coq au vin ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009