Manning, Matthew K.
Summary: "In 1996, when a fire destroyed an abandoned building in New York City, one young cat showed incredible bravery. Scarlett was a young mother and had recently given birth to her litter of kittens. When fire threatened her babies, she did what any mother would do--she risked her own life to save them. Discover Scarlett's story as she braves the flames to rescue her little ones and how they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.8 MANManning, Chandra
Summary: Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war, and they began running to the Union army. By the war's end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in improvised "contraband camps". These were crowded and dangerous places, with conditions approaching those of a humanitarian crisis, yet families and individuals took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MANLamott, Anne.
Summary: Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Lamott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 LamLamott, Anne.
Summary: Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace. Lamott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.54 LAMMcDougall, Walter A.
Summary: From its shocking curtain-raiser--the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835--to the climactic centennial year of 1876, with a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), this sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner carries the saga of the American people's continuous self-reinvention from the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through the eras of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MCDWijk, Joop van
Summary: Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold, until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Bep, who was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding, risked her life to protect them, plunging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WIJManning, Matthew K.
Summary: In an attempt to force the Daily Planet newspaper to stop wasting paper, Poison Ivy creates a vine of kryptonite that covers the whole building, and a seriously weakened Superman must find a way to stop her before she kills Lois and his other friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUPManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Billionaire Lex Luthor is breaking rules and threatening Clark Kent and his fellow Daily Planet workers. But after Clark thinks back to how he stood up to bullies when he was younger, he remembers there are other ways to stand up to bullies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MANRooney, Anne
Summary: How did our extraordinary species go from living as simple apes to becoming the planet's dominant life-form? This beautifully illustrated book traces the journey of humanity from prehistory to the silicon age. People love to tell stories, and this fascinating book tells the greatest tale of them all--how we came to be who we are today. Explore how we developed into modern humans, and how we've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 ROOManning, Matthew K.
Summary: "DC's Dark Knight first emerged from the shadows in the pages of Detective Comics in 1939, when young Bruce Waye vowed to avenge his parents' murder and fight for justice in crime-ridden, corrupt Gotham City. Packed with information on the Dark Knight, including how he was created and evolved over the decades, this in-world celebration of DC's most popular Super Hero explores his motives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 741.5 MANManning, Matthew K.
Summary: "On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City. Many people were killed, and many were trapped under the collapsed buildings. When police officer James Symington heard about the attacks, he knew he and his German shepherd, Trakr, had to help. Follow Trakr's lead as he and Symington bravely search and dig through the rubble to help rescue survivors of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 MANManning, Mick
Summary: "An exciting, action-packed introduction to prehistory, from first life on Earth to the beginning of recorded history." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Otter-Barry Books, Little Orchard 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930 MANRice, Anne
Summary: A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICMcCaffrey, Anne.
Contents: Lady in the tower -- A meeting of minds -- Daughter -- Dull drums -- Changeling -- Weather on Welladay -- The thorns of Barevi -- Horse from a different sea -- Great canine chorus -- Finder's keeper -- A proper Santa Claus -- The smallest dragonboy -- Apple -- Honeymoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 1977
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCC PC #4.5Briggs, Anne
Contents: The recruited collier -- The doffing mistress -- Polly Vaughan -- Rosemary Lane -- Gathering rushes in the month of May -- The stonecutter boy -- Blackwater side -- Go your way (my love) -- The cuckoo -- Reynardine -- Young tambling -- Maa bonny lad -- Sing a song for you -- The bonambuie -- Tongue in cheek.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Topic Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BRIMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: "Journey into an idyllic, heartwarming, and fanciful story in The Anne Collection, with Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery. The Anne of Green Gables series is the tale of Anne Shirley, a young girl orphaned and sent to live with a family who initially wanted to adopt a boy. Anne is kindhearted and charming, and wins over everyone she meets throughout her adventures in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MONContents: Shot over two years and featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes verite with Chelsea Manning, the film picks up on the momentous day in May when she leaves prison and follows her through her journey of discovery, while also examining her place in the conversation on national security and the fight of the transgender community for rights and visibility.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF XYCase, Anne
Summary: "This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 CASHarrington, Anne
Summary: When it comes to disease and healing, most of us believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. We've all heard that people suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst, that stress can kill, and that ancient Eastern mind-body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.001 HARDonaldson, Madeline.
Summary: Examines the geography, history, economy, society, people, and culture of Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945 DONSimon, Anne
Summary: Betrayed by her fleeting first love and her father's cold rejection, Aglaia the Oceanide conceives at a very young age a fierce hatred of men. She is by turns a reluctant wife, a passionate lover, an absent mother, a heroic fighter, and a revolutionary queen--and through it all, her destiny is inexorably linked to the complexity of her character in this deeply human, contemporary, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SIMFrank, Anne
Summary: A collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel, Cady's life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 FRAFrank, Anne
Summary: In July of 1943 Anne and four others were forced to take refuge in the back of a small apartment in Amsterdam. In August 1944, they were taken prisioner by the German Army and sent to a concentration camp. There Anne died from typhoid in 1945, but her father, Otto, survived and saw that Anne's diary was published.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5215 FRAGisleson, Anne
Summary: A memoir of loss, friendship, and literature explores how the author and her husband, devastated by the deaths of family members and the loss of their home in Hurricane Katrina, established a reading group with friends who also endured difficult life setbacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017