McCaskill, Claire.
Summary: Missouri's first woman senator recounts her coming-of-age in a political family at a time when women were held back from their ambitions, describing her failed first marriage, her unconventional choices in office and her relationships with fellow politicians. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCASKILL, CLAIRE MCCSwisher, Kara
Summary: "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: "In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States Army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Miami River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousandIndians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering nearly one thousand casualties in killed and wounded, while Indian casualties numbered only a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 CALFisher, Adam
Summary: A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and Facebook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 FISGraybill, Andrew R.
Summary: Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill ... sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 GRAFowler, Susan J.
Summary: "The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after. In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB FOWLER FOWMessenger, Tony
Summary: "In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. "His Pulitzer Prize winningseries on debtors' prisons in Missouri made a serious difference in real people's lives and his book will be a must read for a nation seeking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 MESJohnson, J. Chester
Summary: An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans--one black and one white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.78 JOHO'Mara, Margaret Pugh
Summary: "The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech re-created America in its image, for good and for ill. Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 OMAMatthews, J. L.
Summary: When you've been hurt in an accident, the prospect of dealing with insurance companies and lawyers can feel daunting. But armed with the right strategy, you can handle a claim yourself--and save thousands of dollars in the process. How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim guides you through the insurance claim process, step by step. After almost any kind of accident, you'll learn how to: figure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.03 MATMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Provides a simple introduction to the work of French artist Claude Monet, featuring his Impressionist paintings of city and country scenes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERBilal, Parker
Summary: Hired to investigate the disappearance of a university student who may have become involved in political activities, Makana is drawn by a gruesome murder into an ethnic rivalry and gang war among young men from South Sudan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILMenuez, Doug.
Summary: Offers a pictorial chronicle of the Silicon Valley technology boom, beginning with Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer company in 1985 and expending to other innovative companies in the region up to the bursting of the dot com bubble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 979.473 MENBuckingham, E. Tolley (Evelyn Tolley)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.5 CEMMonet, Claude
Summary: Presents paintings of Claude Monet, accompanied by phrases in the painter's own words, edited to form a simple rhyme that runs through the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
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Summary: "This book sets out the records available for research on the history of County Clare families, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect. For each type of record, it describes the background to their compilation, and the categories of people and data included. It also provides background on the social history of County Clare and how this history has affected the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 SmithAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISSarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARMillman, Chad.
Summary: An account of the World War I bombing of Black Tom Island in New York Harbor describes the reticence of the president to prevent the attack, the German government's evasion of responsibility, and the efforts of lawyers to determine accountability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 MILWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "In October 1919, a group of black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Up stepped Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved. Could he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.7 WALColomba, Elizabeth
Summary: "Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLStanton, Anne
Summary: "A story of how civic-minded police officers banded together and saved a historic bakery and put a small town on the map. When the nine officers of the Clare City Police Department learned their town's only doughnut shop was closing for good, they sprang into action. The 113-year-old bakery was an icon and needed to be protected and served! Besides, there were already 11 empty stores in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2022