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Metaxas, Eric

Summary: A five-time New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host describes growing up as the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants who attended Yale while feeling like an outsider.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MET

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Metaxas, Eric

Summary: "On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther's now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, biographer Eric Metaxas paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUTHER, MARTIN MET

Metaxas, Eric

Summary: Eric Metaxas offers a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless people truly understand what their founding fathers meant for them to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the 'noble experiment in ordered liberty' that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MET

LaPlante, Walter

Summary: During the early 1800s, it was difficult and expensive to transport goods from the East Coast to the Great Lakes region. The Erie Canal connected these two areas, causing a population boom in western New York and encouraging settlement around the Great Lakes. Readers learn the history of this important canal through the main content and fun fact boxes, and also discover the many ways travelers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 LAP

Prior, Karen Swallow

Summary: "With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the womanwriter who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-CenturyBritish society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORE, HANNAH PRI

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: O'Meara-Brown Publications 1998

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 797.1097 Lake

Idle, Eric

Summary: From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B IDL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 Idle

Summary: Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is haunted by memories of places he has never been and manifests skills he's never learned. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves "Infinites" come to his rescue, revealing to him that his memories are real - but they are from multiple past lives. Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock answers in his memories...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE INF

Gansworth, Eric

Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GAN

Summary: A collection of animated adventures based on popular children's books. A skeleton band tickles the funny bone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by New Video Group 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DEM

Summary: The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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Hazan, Éric

Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZ

Cercas, Javier

Summary: An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARCO, ENRIC CER

Moorcock, Michael

Summary: Elric of Melnibone. Traitor. Savior. Lover. Thief. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Foley, Erin

Summary: Costa Rica is a diverse Latin American country with flourishing wildlife and ecotourism opportunities. This book gives an in-depth study of the country, examining what makes the country unique.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.86 FOL

Napoli, Lisa

Summary: A portrait of the relationship between McDonald's chairman Ray Croc and his wife, Joan, describes how he helped establish an international brand and amassed a considerable estate before his impassioned wife gave most of the family fortune away to philanthropic pursuits.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House LLC 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NAP

Summary: A documentary that explores the possibility that extra-terrestrial creatures visited Earth thousands of years ago and were responsible for many of the structures built by ancient man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHA

Chack, Erin

Summary: The Buzzfeed senior editor reflects on the highs and lows of the millennial experience, sharing such stories as escaping a bear attack and her battle with cancer at nineteen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHA

Keane, Erin

Summary: "In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEANE, ERIN KEA

Nardo, Don

Summary: Describes the events in Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," from the causes of the Trojan War to the legendary Greek and Trojan characters, the end of the war, and Odysseus's harrowing journey home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2012

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Summary: Whether you're interested in fine jewelry or mineralogy, this book provides in-depth information about all the major gem types. The text reveals the riches of the Earth from raw minerals to jewelry pieces. It also explains the science, history, and mythology that surround the gems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016

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LeMarque, Eric

Summary: In this first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival--of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric's ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival--as he reveals, with startling candor, an even more harrowing and inspiring tale of fame and addiction, healing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEMARQUE, ERIC LEM

Sevareid, Eric

Contents: We're off! -- The new life -- Snakes! -- Tragedy--almost -- Red River mud -- Ready for the plunge -- Into the land of the Cree -- The royal northwest mounted -- Humiliation of the "Sans Souci" -- "The die is cast" -- Canoeing with the Cree -- God's country -- The great test -- Victory and pineapple -- Half-breeds and muskeg -- End of the trail.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Borealis Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEVAREID, ERIC SEV

Kleiman, Kathy

Summary: "After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.092 KLE

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