Sawchik, Travis.
Summary: "Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was old school and stubborn. But after twenty straight losing seasons and his job on the line, he was ready to try anything. So when he met with GM Neal Huntington in October 2012, they decided to discard everything they knew about the game and instead take on drastic "big data" strategies. Going well beyond the number-crunching of Moneyball, which used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 SAWTraviss, Karen.
Summary: "HALO: GLASSLANDS saw a very different development in the war that Earth has been fighting for so very long. With terrible losses on both sides, finally open hostilities have ended. But though a fragile peace has been established between Earth and the peoples of the Covenant, forces on both sides make that peace precarious. A schism among the Sangheili is gaining strength, with a splinter group...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRAThavis, John.
Summary: Presents a behind-the-scenes perspective on the Vatican's inner workings that challenges popular perceptions, revealing the personal conflicts, authority-undermining scandals, and modern considerations that are challenging the Vatican's daily business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.136 THASmiley, Tavis
Summary: A notable PBS and Public Radio International host recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou, who took on the role of teacher and maternal figure to him after their initial meeting in 1986, when he was a recent college graduate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMITraviss, Karen.
Summary: The first in a five-book Clone Wars series accompanies the new movie and TV show. Anakin Skywalker is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibility--and his chances of survival aren't improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF TRATraviss, Karen.
Summary: As Jacen Solo continues his rise to power, he grows increasingly like his grandfather, Darth Vader, and his evil Sith mentor, Emperor Palpatine, until he is forced to make a horrifying choice that will change his own life and those of the Skywalker and Solo families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRASmiley, Tavis
Summary: Presents an analysis of the recent increase of poverty in the United States, even among the middle class, describing twelve steps that can be undertaken to give the poor more equitable access to housing, education, and health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SmileyBooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.22 SMISmiley, Tavis
Summary: "A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, MICHAEL SMITraviss, Karen.
Summary: Jacen Solo's shadow of influence has threatened many, especially those closest to him. Jaina Solo is determined to bring her brother in, but in order to track him down, she must first learn unfamiliar skills from a man she finds ruthless, repellent, and dangerous. Meanwhile, Ben Skywalker, still haunted by suspicions that Jacen killed his mother, Mara, decides he must know the truth, even if it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRA LF 8Traviss, Karen.
Summary: In order to gain the power of a true Sith Lord, Jacen Solo must see to it that someone he values dies. The choice he makes will destroy two families and cast a dark shadow over the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRA LF 5Traviss, Karen.
Summary: "Welcome to humanity's new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection turns into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRATraviss, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRAKashiwaba, Sachiko
Summary: "In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki​​. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KASFoster, Travis
Summary: Two friends, Redd and Bllo argue over the possession of one special book with a green cover, hard cover, a nice spine, and pages turn from right to left--but unite when Bookworm walks off with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FOSLupick, Travis
Summary: "A revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom heard in the conversation: drug users who are working on the front lines to reduce overdose deaths"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 LUPNichols, Travis
Summary: Vampires, mummies, and gelatinous balls of goo (oh my!). That's right, monsters are real and they've settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove. It's a pretty typical place: houses, stores, portals to various nightmarish parallel dimensions. And a school for the kiddos. Meet the crew: Vlad, a fame-thirsty vampire, Allie, a stuffed animal-dissecting alien, Lizzie, a short-tempered kaiju,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 ROYTravis, Lisa
Summary: "Bem-vindo ao Brasil! Welcome to Brazil! Sofia and Julia visit the coast of Brazil. It's fun in the sun until they notice mysterious markings in the golden sands. Someone or something is after the loggerhead sea turtles. But why? It's up to Sofia and Julia to uncover the truth before it's too late"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Pack TravisTravis, Merle.
Contents: Cincinnati Lou -- No vacancy -- Divorce me C.O.D. -- So round, so firm, so fully packed -- Sixteen tons -- Steel guitar rag -- Blue yodel no. 1 (T for Texas) -- Any old time -- three times seven -- Kentucky means paradise -- Sweet temptation -- Fat gal -- Dry bread -- Cannon ball rag -- Lawdy, what a girl -- Guitar rag -- Deep south -- Re-enlistment blues -- Kinfolks in Carolina -- I'll see you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 1947
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY TRATravis, Randy.
Contents: Too gone too long (2:24) -- My house (2:54) -- Good intentions (3:37) -- What'll you do about me (2:38) -- I won't need you anymore (3:09) -- Forever and ever, amen (3:31) -- I told you so (3:38) -- Anything (2:41) -- The truth is lyin' next to you (3:24) -- Tonight we're gonna tear down the walls (2:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY TRAPanda, Satchin
Summary: A comprehensive health book and lifestyle plan to help manage the body's natural rhythms offers advice to overcome difficulty sleeping, hunger at odd times, and sudden fatigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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Summary: "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIGGS, ARTHUR BRIBaldree, Travis
Summary: "Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk--so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BALDandro, Travis
Summary: "From a child's-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019