Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)
Summary: A definitive collection of letters by and to JFK offers unique insights into his character and times, in a volume that includes correspondences with such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and a young John Kerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F KENMartin, Jacqueline Briggs
Summary: Welcome to Sandor Katz's no-desk, new-ways school! There are no tests, no rules - just happy, hungry people learning how to make fermented food. All they need are their favorite vegetables, salt, and the TINY WILD. These invisible microbes change cucumbers into crunchy pickles, and cabbages into zingy-zangy sauerkraut and kimchi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Readers to Eaters 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KATZ MARMartin, Clancy W.
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of How to Sell-and based on his viral Huffington Post article-comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject 'If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, CLANCY W MARMcCartney, Martha W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3755 MCCMcCartney, Martha W.
Summary: "A detailed look at the people associated with Jamestown from its founding in 1607 to 1800. Based on government records and private archives, it provides historical biographies of several distinct groups of people: Jamestown Island landowners, public officials, Native-American leaders, and African Americans associated with Jamestown. It also covers more than a thousand people who did not own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3755 McCARLandler, Mark.
Summary: Landler takes us inside the fraught and fascinating relationship between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton--a relationship that has framed the nation's great debates over war and peace for the past eight years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327 LANMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARMartin, Jacqueline Briggs.
Summary: A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SNOMartin, Jacqueline Briggs.
Summary: A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott MartinBree, Marlin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlor Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.13 BREMaltin, Leonard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 MALMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MARSadler, Anthony
Summary: "On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 SADAdler, David A.
Summary: A biography of the Baptist minister who worked unceasingly for his dream of a world without hate, prejudice, or violence, and was assassinated in the attempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1986
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KING ADLSadler, Matthew
Summary: It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The artificial intelligence system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world's strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. The selection of ten games published in December 2017 created a worldwide sensation: how was it possible to play...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New in Chess 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.1 SADMaltin, Leonard
Summary: Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books, an imprint of Paladin Communications 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALTIN, LEONARD MALMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MARHandler, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HANMarrin, Albert
Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KORSanders, Coyne Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SANMarin, Cheech.
Summary: One half of the iconic comedy team of Cheech & Chong offers insight into his life behind his pop-culture persona, describing his pioneering work in early counter-culture arenas and his observations about life's absurdities from a fringe perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2011
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Summary: Maya Angelou was a writer, dancer, activist, and actress, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her body of work evokes emotions that range the full spectrum, from joy to heartbreak and from rage to hope. A phenomenal woman, she enriched the world of literature and society as a whole. This essential biography explores her life and creative output and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGSardy, Marin
Summary: Shares highly informed meditations into how the author's childhood in Anchorage, her literary career, and the lives of beloved family members have been impacted by hereditary schizophrenia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019