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Heat Moon, William Least Travel United States Near-death experiences Near-death experiences Drama Near-death experiences Fiction New Deal New Deal, 1933-1939 Sullivan, Annie 1866-1936 Drama United States United States Description and travel United States Economic conditions 1918-1945Summary: Bertram Pincus is an irritable dentist whose people skills leave much to be desired. Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him. Frank Herlihy, in particular, pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. Now, Pincus is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHOSummary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGShlaes, Amity.
Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHLBreedlove, Ally.
Summary: "An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, written by his sister Ally Breedlove. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove's soul went to heaven. But it wasn't his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BREEDLOVE, BEN BREKaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true account and New York Times best-selling book comes the feature film adaption. Don Piper experienced love, joy and life like he₂d never known during the 90 minutes he was declared dead after a traffic accident. But when he finally wakes in the hospital, Heaven's bliss was replaced by excruciating pain and emotional turmoil. With the support of his family and community, Don clings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 90 RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINFavreau, Marc
Summary: "Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived. This is the story of the Great Depression in the United States, from the sweeping consequences of the market collapse to the more personal stories of individuals and communities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 FAVSummary: Larry David has it all - except, perhaps, his identity. This season, Larry takes a sentimental journey in search of his roots, stepping on a few toes along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Black, Dale.
Summary: "Dale Black tells how he survived a plane crash at age nineteen, his near-death experience of heaven, and how his life dramatically changed as a result of this event forty years ago"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DALE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ BlackSummary: The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY MATFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHER, HANK FUNKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUMiller, Samuel
Summary: In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MILBrinkley, Dannion.
Contents: The first time I died -- The tunnel to eternity -- "He's dead" -- The crystal city -- The boxes of knowledge -- Coming back -- At home -- A saving grace -- A new lease on life -- My own kind -- Special powers -- Rebuilding -- Heart failure -- The second time I died -- To be continued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: BeliegfSpirit BrinkleySorvino, Chloe
Summary: "A shocking and engrossing exposé of the US meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food by the head of Forbes's Food, Drink, and Agriculture division, Chloe Sorvino"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 SORChertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHESummary: Based on a true story, Sue Thomas : F.B.Eye follows the adventures of Sue Thomas at the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy -- and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Integrity Direct 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Sue 2009Cabot, Meg.
Summary: A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CABSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKHeat Moon, William Least
Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEAGutman, Dan
Summary: Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gutman 2021Gibson, William
Summary: A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1957
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 GIBSummary: Based on a true story, Sue Thomas : F.B.Eye follows the adventures of Sue Thomas at the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy -- and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Integrity Direct 2009