Truman, Harry S.
Summary: A compilation of quotations from the speeches and writings of our thirty-third President.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Newmarket Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 TRUSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 ROOWallace, Chris
Summary: A Fox News Sunday anchor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP investigative journalist present a behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings, global events, leadership decisions, and civilian realities that led to the Hiroshima bombing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALHarary, Charlie
Summary: "A guide to successfully clearing a pathway from the life you have to the life you want by changing your perspective, discovering your ideal self, and controlling how you experience life. It's easier to do than you might think - in order to get what you want, to achieve that sense of life satisfaction, all you need to do is change your relationship to what you already have."--Publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HARHieronimus, Harro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.37 HIENeumann, Ariana
Summary: "In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into themorgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NEUCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NEUMANN NEUWills, Garry
Summary: An examination of Christianity's place in American life through history, from the Puritans to the administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, historian Wills argues, has been between the head and the heart: reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. 18th century America saw a religious revolution--an Enlightenment culture emerged whose hallmarks were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 WILWills, Garry
Summary: In this examination of the life of a founding father, renowned historian Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADWills, Garry
Summary: Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 WILShuman, Michael.
Summary: "Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the devastating impact of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SHUShuman, Michael.
Summary: Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart; Michael Shuman begs to differ. In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.642 SHUCocca-Leffler, Maryann
Summary: In the 1970s an important disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was waiting to be signed. Judy [Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEUBaumann, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.762 BAUGreen, Hardy.
Summary: Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the American economy, and explores the benefits and consequences of these towns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 GREHardy, Grant
Summary: In "Understanding the Book of Mormon," Hardy offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work's narrative structure in its 180 year history. He identifies the book's literary techniques, such as characterization, embedded documents, allusions, and parallel narratives, and shows how the narrators--Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni--each has a distinctive voice woven into an integral whole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3 HARThurman, Judith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DINESEN, ISAK THUToumani, Meline.
Summary: A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-- and abuse-- our personal histories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUMANI, MELINE TOUBaumann, Leslie.
Summary: Dermatologist Baumann provides a program that's revolutionizing the way people everywhere think about--and shop for--skin care. Whereas previous books identified only four basic skin types, through clinical research Dr. Baumann discovered that there are actually sixteen distinctly different skin types--each with unique needs all its own. But caring for your skin doesn't have to be complicated....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.726 BAUParry, John
Summary: "In The Burden of Sports, John Weston Parry examines the mental health and emotional well-being of elite American athletes generally, as well as in relation to spectator sports propaganda, the legal system, politics, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book covers mental health conditions that any elite athlete may encounter, from depression and anxiety to substance abuse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 796.01 PARSchumann, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 552 SCHParry, Rosanne
Summary: "For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: A study of the three operas that Verdi adapted from Shakespeare: Macbeth, Otello, and Falstaff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011