Summary: "From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: "Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 SONRoy, Jessica
Summary: "The Sally sisters, raised in a rural Jehovah's Witness community in Arkansas, spent their teens and twenties moving between cities and towns in the South and Midwest, working difficult and poorly-paid jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry -- where Lori, younger by a year, protected bold, outgoing, reckless Sam -- the two women eventually married a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: In 1967, Charles Koch took the reins of his father's company and began the process of growing it from a $21 million company into a global corporation with revenues of about $115 billion, according to Forbes. So how did this MIT engineer manage to grow Koch Industries into one of the largest private companies in the world today, with growth exceeding that of the S&P 500 by almost 30-fold over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 KOCThomas, Isabel
Summary: A newly-emerged peppered moth blends in with other speckled-winged moths on lichen-covered branches, but over time the moths with black wings increase as trees are blackened by soot from man-made machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOGonzález, Echo Elise
Summary: A graphic-style nonfiction adventure into fundamental concepts in computer science. -- adapted from publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.74 GONSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANBrege, K. B.
Summary: "This time there's only one way for Mick, Nathan, and Sissy to figure out what's going wrong at America's Greatest History Attraction: The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and that is to sneak in at night! But terrifying things happen when they encounter the mischievous evil Gremlins! Once again, you get to decide on your ending, normal, scary, time travel, B movie or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Team B Creative 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRESummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about dental hygiene, preventive care, and oral health concerns for children and adults, with facts about surgical, orthodontic, and cosmetic dental procedures, and diseases of the mouth and jaw. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.6 DEASummary: The 1960s was defined by a common effort to fight against injustice. Mike Gray, a Chicago filmmaker, used his camera to document the politics of the streets from the riots in the social upheaval, to the rising of two prolific groups fighting prejudice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMEGreenleaf, Robert K
Summary: With the publication of Servant Leadership in 1977, a new paradigm of management entered the boardrooms and corporate offices of America. Robert K. Greenleaf, a retired AT&T executive, proposed that service ought to be the distinguishing characteristic of leadership. Not only would it create better, stronger companies, he said, but business leaders themselves "would find greater joy in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paulist Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 GREChamberlain, Diane
Summary: When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When she is confronted by an odd, older woman telling her not to move in, she almost agrees. It's clear this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CHASummary: Ireland never had an industrial revolution-its economy leaped from agrarian gloom into high-tech high-gear almost overnight. This Wide Angle case study visits Limerick, one of the country's largest cities and the epitome of the Celtic Tiger's rise. Once the blighted setting of Angela's Ashes, today's Limerick boasts the glories and the growing pains of all economic boomtowns: heavy foreign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Donovan, Sandra
Summary: Provides pictures and information on how to keep your mouth healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J612.313 DONRowling, J. K.
Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC ROWSummary: Facing the near certainty of impeachment by the House of Representatives and probable conviction by the Senate for his role in the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace on August 9, 1974. This NBC News program tracks the unfolding events throughout that difficult day, including Nixon's emotional farewell speech to his staff, shown in its entirety. Hosted by Jane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5412 ANDKegan, Robert.
Summary: "In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs - along with the collective mindsets in our organizations - combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KEGMarkle, Sandra.
Contents: Insect world -- Outside and inside -- Becoming an adult -- The cycle begins -- Very hungry caterpillars -- Time for a change -- Life as an adult -- Continuing the cycle -- Luna moths and other insect life cycles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.78 MARNasaw, David
Summary: Documents the experiences and fates of the one million concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers and political prisoners left in Germany after World War II who spent years as displaced refugees in unsupported, segregated, and poorly converted buildings while the world's nations refused shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 NASBurrough, Bryan
Summary: An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BURRosenau, William
Summary: Describes how six veteran women extremists joined together in the late 1970s to create M19, a terrorist organization that carried out acts of domestic terrorism, including prison breaks, armed robberies, and a bombing campaign on the nation's capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 ROSSummary: Rich in history, the Rhine feeds Europe's collective identity-as well as its divisions. Flowing from Switzerland through Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, the river intersects a multitude of towns and cities in the process. This program follows the Rhine on its multifaceted journey and examines economic, political, environmental, and historical issues surrounding it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Chamberlain, Diane
Summary: "From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022