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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 CHACharleson, Susannah.
Summary: After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own. Charleson got Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever, who from the start, exhibited a unique aptitude for search-and-rescue work. But the puppy's willfulness challenged even Susannah, who had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHACharleston, Steven
Summary: "Native America has confronted apocalypse for more than four hundred years. Choctaw elder Steven Charleston tells the stories of four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe, using their lessons and wisdom as guidance for how we can face the uncertainty of the modern age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 191.089 CHAMcMillan, Tracie.
Summary: "What if you couldn't afford nine dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost - which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 MCMSharpton, Al
Summary: The respected civil rights leader and host of "PoliticsNation" presents a rousing call to action that examines the administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump while heralding the movements that have emerged in response to today's political turbulence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SHAMcMillan, Dan
Summary: "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MCMCarlton, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8526 CARMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901 MACMMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: "This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7305 MACMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: "War, the instinct to fight, is inherent in human nature; peace is the aberration in history. War has shaped humanity, its institutions, its states, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0209 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.0209 MACMcMillan, Claire
Summary: Fleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: "While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all, heeding the call when no one else was listening, often risking their lives and livelihoods in the process. This book shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things--like Pauli Murray, whose early work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 SHAMcLellan, Lorenzo
Summary: Division can be tricky to get the hang of, but with the help of fun characters like lions and mummies, even those normally reluctant to learn math will be engaged by this book. Exciting activities guide readers of all ages and levels to solve problems and equations. Through solving each problem, readers will strengthen their skills related to key concepts of elementary math curricula. A dynamic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books, an imprint of Rosen Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Numbers McLellanMcIlwain, Charlton D.
Summary: "Black Software, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet. Through new archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history, this book centralizes African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MCIMillan, Cesar.
Summary: In this book the author, a well-known dog trainer takes on the topic of training for the first time, by explaining the importance of balance as the foundation for a healthy relationship between you and your dog. In order to provide a variety of training options, he calls upon some of the foremost experts in the field to offer their advice so that you can find the perfect approach that works for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 MILMcMillan, Claire
Summary: "This intoxicating novel set in the rarified world of money and society alternates between two generations of the Quincy family: the wealthy robber baron brothers who vied over a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and the young woman who inherits a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace and its secrets. Always the black sheep, Nell Quincy is summoned to her family's elegantly shabby manor after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMillan, Tom
Summary: The book offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard Flight 93 – from its delayed takeoff in Newark to the moment it plunged upside-down at 563 miles per hour into an open field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Flight 93 provides a riveting and complete narrative of the lead-up, event, and aftermath of the flight, based on interviews, oral histories, personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MCMMcMillian, John Campbell.
Summary: "Based on exhaustive research in primary sources, including overlooked teen magazines and underground newspapers, 'Beatles vs. Stones' tells a vital story of the 1960s through the lens of music's greatest rivalry. This is the definitive account of the friendship and rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones."--Back jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 MCMCharleson, Susannah
Summary: "Readers take to the streets beside Susannah to bring home a host of missing pets. Along the way, Susannah finds a part of herself also lost. And when unexpected heartbreak shatters her own sense of direction, it is Ace--the shelter dog that started it all--who leads Susannah home. Inquisitive, instructive, heartrending, and hopeful, Where the Lost Dogs Go pays tribute to the missing dogs--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHACharleson, Susannah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 CHAMcLellan, Bruce
Summary: "In all scientific disciplines, there is an expanding gap between what is known by the general public and what is known by scientists. In this book, Dr. Bruce McLellan tries to bridge that gap. Coexisting with grizzly bears into the future will be an increasing challenge and require a deep understanding of these large carnivores and what factors make their populations tick. Based on perhaps the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RMB Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. 2023
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Summary: Looks at the positive effects that having and training dogs has on their owners, and shares personal stories of how the dogs in his life have given him important lessons in respect, confidence, resilience, and authenticity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Summary: Presents a narrative portrait of Europe in the years leading up to World War I that illuminates the political, cultural, and economic factors and contributing personalities that shaped major events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 MACChurton, Tobias
Summary: In November 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced the death of “the greatest man in the world,” yet few knew who he was talking about. Enigmatic, misunderstood, declared a charlatan, and recently dubbed “the Rasputin who inspired Mary Poppins,” Gurdjieff’s life has become a legend. But who really was George Ivanovich Gurdjieff?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2017