Coram, Robert
Summary: "Recounts the storied life and military career of the American flying Ace who flew missions in China alongside the “Flying Tigers” during World War II and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT, ROBERT LEE JR CORDougherty, Nancy
Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOUSummary: As the age approaches our own, time accelerates; and in the six-and-a-half decades of Victoria's reign, changes came thick and fast: England's population doubled, the economy exploded, railways shrank the country's size, iron and steel were everywhere-in clothing too, in the women's steel hoops and cages and bustles. This was an age that began in moderation and soon became a contest for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Fix, Lauren Jonas.
Contents: What's the best car out there for you? -- Now, what about insurance, warranties, and roadside assistance? -- Let's hit the road! -- "What if...?": how to handle emergencies -- How to talk with your car technician -- Do it yourself -- Love the shine, not the grime -- Personalize your ride.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 FixJonas, Raymond Anthony.
Contents: Pt. 1. The road to Adwa -- Courtly ambitions -- Listing toward Adwa -- Italy in Africa -- The price of liberty -- Black in service of white -- Africa in Italy -- "Something humiliating for my kingdom" -- pt. 2. The battle -- Menelik's march -- Amba Alage -- Stalled at Sauria -- Baratieri chooses -- Armies meet -- The center crumbles -- pt. 3. Aftermaths -- Despair, panic, pursuit -- The harvest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 963.043 JONSummary: "Adolescence is a time of firsts. First kiss. First love. First loss. First job. The first taste of adult responsibilities, and the first look at an independent life away from both the restrictions and the security of home. And in this case, a very different type of "first": murder. This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIFCotterill, Colin
Summary: "Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao, but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who is "we," and why have they left no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTEveritt, Anthony
Summary: "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER THE GREAT EVESummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINGallego, Ruben
Summary: "Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLEGO, RUBEN GALJones, Norah
Summary: Concert performance recorded live August 9, 2004, at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NORSummary: As irreverent and bawdy as Aristophanes, but with more accessible humor, this pseudo-biography juxtaposes elements of Aristophanic plays with the activities of contemporaneous people to show how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theater. Aristophanes is shown as an artist living on the edge, who uses...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Taubman, William
Summary: A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR. "When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL TAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GORBACHEV TAUFeek, Rory Lee
Summary: Singer Joey Martin and her songwriter husband Rory Feek were enjoying a steadily growing fan base in country music and a baby daughter when Joey was diagnosed with a rapidly spreading cancer. Rory blogged about the final months of Joey's life. In this memoir, Rory takes us for the first time into his own challenging life story and what it was like growing up in rural America with little money...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEEK, RORY FEEGreenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Dimitri Shostakovich in 8 lectures of 45 minutes each.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI GREGreenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN GRESummary: An introduction, not only to Goya's work, but to the critical period in Spanish history which he recorded. In a period largely bereft of major literary masterpieces, it is to Goya that we look to find out what Spain was like in the period spanning the decline of neoclassicism, the devastation of the Napoleonic Wars, and the rise of Romanticism and Impressionism.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Blind Pilot
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ATO Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLIIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 EinsteinJonas Brothers
Contents: Miracle -- Montana sky -- Wings -- Sail away -- Americana -- Celebrate! -- Waffle house -- Vacation eyes -- Summer in the Hamptons -- Summer baby -- Little bird -- Walls.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JONIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 530.092 ISACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EINSTEIN, ALBERT ISACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B Einstein IsaEika, Jonas
Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIKDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014