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Adventure quick guides Family feature Kaufman field guide Marcus Ryker 3 You chooseSummary: Black in the Middle brings the voices of Black Midwesterners front and center. Filled with compelling personal narratives, thought-provoking art, and searing commentaries, this anthology explores the various meanings and experiences of blackness throughout the Rust Belt, the Midwest, and the Great Plains. Bringing together people from major metropolitan centers like Detroit and Chicago as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.0496 BLALaskin, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US LaskinLaskin, David
Summary: January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Wuthnow, Robert.
Summary: This book is a study of the fifty years starting in the 1950s in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In this book the author sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 WUTFannin, Rebecca A.
Summary: "How the American Midwest is recovering its economic weight as a center for high tech and innovation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 FANSummary: Each issue of Game & Fish Midwest details proven local strategies for whitetails, turkeys, bass, walleyes and more. Discover the best places to hunt and fish from North Dakota to Kentucky, and learn the top times for success in the field and on the water. Get info on hot new gear and how it performs, as well as updates on trends, regulations, seasons and destinations to help you plan your next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outdoor Sportsman Group 2019
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Daniels, Jaret C.
Summary: "Butterflies are fascinating, beautiful, and a joy to behold. Now observing them is even better with the Butterflies of the Midwest Field Guide. This handy book by acclaimed author and professional entomologist Jaret C. Daniels makes field identification simple and informative. It features 198 species of butterflies (and common moths) organized by color for ease of use. Detailed photographs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Publications 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SANShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHESky, Emma
Summary: Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. 'In A Time of Monsters' bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SKY, EMMA SKYCurtis, Edward E.
Summary: "This book rejects the stereotype of the Midwest as bleached-out Christian country. It unearths a surprising and intimate history of the first two generations of Syrian Muslims in the Midwest who, in spite of discrimination, created a life that was Arab, American, and Muslim all at the same time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 CURGeisert, Bonnie.
Summary: Describes a year in the life of a prairie town including the effect of seasons and of economics on the ebb and flow of this agricultural community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 307.72 GEIKaufman, Kenn
Summary: Whether you're walking in the woods, camping, hiking, canoing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify all your nature discoveries, including birds, mammals, tress, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, grasses, even constellations overhead and rocks underfoot it's all here. With authoritative and broad coverage, using nontechnical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.McClelland, Ted.
Summary: Looks at the boom and bust of America's upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, tracing its role as a leader in manufacturing, the forces that shaped it, and the innovations and industrial fallouts that brought about its downfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 MCCAbley, Mark
Summary: "A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABLEY, MARK ABLCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "It is January 12, 1888, and you are caught by surprise by a powerful blizzard that sweeps across the Midwest. Dangerously cold temperatures, high winds, and deep snow make travel nearly impossible. Will you be able to find your way home through the storm after leaving school? Can you find your father after he becomes lost in the blinding snow? Will you be able to help your students find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: Food plants have their own ornamental value, adding harmony to existing landscapes without creating a separate vegetable garden. They also provide a fresh, healthy alternative to the tasteless and woody fruits and vegetables bred for long-distance transportation and shipped to our grocery stores from all over the world. This book shows how, with just a little effort, you can augment your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Pine 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 635 VANFisk, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 FISGiffels, David.
Summary: "Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective.The Industrial Midwest built modern America, thrived for almost a century, then profoundly collapsed. But for cities like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0977 GIFRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSGerolymatos, André.
Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERBishara, Marwan.
Summary: "The Invisible Arab is a brilliant analysis from Marwan Bishara, one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals, on how the Arabs broke their own psychological barrier of fear to kindle one of the first significant revolutionary transformations of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.097 BISSummary: General index map of Automobile routes showing main highways in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky with correct geographical location of cities and towns, also adjacent Tennessee, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1920