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bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. History. Juvenile works. Nonfiction.Symon, Charles.
Summary: This volume affords an opportunity fo UP people to take a look at themselves and swell a bit with pride at "what we have done", and for the rest of the world to awe at what this little, sparsley settled region has produced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RonJon Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 SYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977 SYMPeres, Shimon
Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PERChambers, John
Summary: Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.4 CHAMasters, Alexander.
Summary: Tells the story of an unlikely friendship that develops between the author, a writer and illustrator, and Stuart Shorter, a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHORTER, STUART MASStimson, Ellen
Summary: Chronicles the author's transition from city life to rural life in Vermont where she and her family, deciding to operate one of the oldest country stores in America, are faced with opposition and distrust by local residents who disliked change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STIMSON, ELLEN STIDuffy, Eamon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUFSammon, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SAMSisman, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOSWELL, JAMES SISMasters, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SENESH, HANNAH MASGaimon, Phil
Summary: Like countless other kids, Phil Gaimon grew up dreaming of being a professional athlete. But unlike countless other kids, he actually pulled it off. After years of amateur races, hard training, living out of a suitcase, and never taking "no" for an answer, he finally achieved his goal and signed a contract to race professionally on one of the best teams in the world. Now, Gaimon pulls back the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAIMON, PHIL GAISeton, Susannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SETGaimon, Phil.
Summary: "Abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Phil Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the goal of shedding a few pounds. By sheer accident, he discovered he was a natural, advancing so rapidly through the amateur ranks that he entered the pro peloton utterly ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He recounts the difficulties of making ends meet on a salary of $166 a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Velo Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAIMON, PHIL GAIStimson, Ellen
Summary: In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimson's transition from city life to rickety Vermont farmhouse. When she decides she wants to own and operate the old-fashioned village store in idyllic Dorset, pop. 2,036, one of the oldest continually operating country stores in the United States, she learns the hard way that "improvements" are not always welcomed warmly by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STIMSON, ELLEN STISidman, Joyce
Summary: "Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People SidmanBrantley-Sieders, Dana
Summary: "Provides accessible science and health information for the love of your boobs, especially when they have cancer. Dana Brantley-Seiders spent twenty years working as a biomedical breast cancer researcher. Then, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She thought she knew breast cancer before it whacked her upside her left boob and left her bleeding on the curb of uncertainty. Turns out, she had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom BrantleySimons, Suzanne.
Summary: The name Blackwater, the world's largest private military contractor, became infamous early in the Iraq War, when four of its men were murdered by a mob in Fallujah and hung from a bridge. Since then, Blackwater has expanded dramatically; its men have been involved in scandals, including a shooting spree in Iraq that caused the Iraqi government to blacklist the company. As author Suzanne Simons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 PRINCE, ERIK SIMSimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: "In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SIMRegev, Limor
Summary: "January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen more than his share of tragedy. Moshe knows only one thing about Buchenwald. Everyone knows it. If you want to survive, you have to get to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: eBookPro Publishing 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 BECCampbell, Simone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAMPBELL, SIMONE CAMAsimov, Isaac
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASIMOV, ISSAC ASMSeton, Nora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 SETNelson, Ramon
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Jennings Press 1990
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.9 NELBiles, Simone
Summary: "Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016