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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classic 2001
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Summary: The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Summary: The author's famous tale of a Lithuanian family who emigrates to America and is destroyed by exploitation, crushing poverty, and economic despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIN
Sinclair, Upton.
Summary: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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Summary: Describes the vastly different types of people working alongside each other at Britain's Government Code and Cypher School and how they passed their time at this extraordinary facility when they weren't working on projects vital to saving the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 MCKSinclair, Iain
Summary: Mourns the ways in which the 2012 Olympic games are prompting redevelopment at the cost of local history, exploring the roots of new constructions while citing the losses of private establishments, public parks, and casual diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.1086 SINMcKay, Sinclair
Summary: "A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombingof Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MCKSinclair, Upton
Summary: Presents the novel that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry, and affected radical social changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Sinclair 1994Sinclair, Upton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amereon House 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION SinclairSinclair, David A.
Summary: "From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time's most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverseaging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated. For decades, experts have believed that we are at the mercy of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging SinclairSinclair, Donald A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3749 SinclSinclair, Richard.
Contents: Going for a song -- Cruising -- Only the brave -- Plan it earth -- Heather -- Keep on caring -- Emily -- Felafel shuffle -- Halfway between heaven & earth -- Five go wild -- Flowered at Bracknell -- It didn't matter anyway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HTD Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SINSinclair, John.
Contents: When will the blues leave -- Thank you pretty baby -- My buddy -- Ain't nobody's bizness -- Fattening frogs for snakes -- Down in Mississippi -- Some of these days -- Mother earth -- 'Scuze me while I kiss the sky -- Friday was 13th -- Rhythm-a-ning -- Spiritual -- Consequences / Blues to you -- I talk to the spirits -- Spiritual
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Publisher / Publication Date: SpyBoy Records 0000
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Contents: Charles E. Bailey, 1822-1894 / Leonard L. Case -- Grand Traverse College and its successors / Roland McAllister -- Mills Community House / Leonard L. Case -- Churches of Benzonia-Beulah / Leonard L. Case -- Benzonia-Beulah political outline / William G. Sinclair -- Community public school / William G. Sinclair -- One hundred years of progress / William G. Sinclair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1958
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4632 SIN1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.463 SIN
Thiem, Brian
Summary: When the Oakland coroner's office uncovers a body buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of the city, homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair expects to find a drug dealer caught in the crosshairs of a turf war. Instead, the victim is identified as Phil Roberts, the commander of the police department's intelligence unit and Sinclair's former partner. Police brass want to pin the murder on a dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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Summary: When a teenager from a wealthy suburb outside of Oakland, California is dumped at an inner city bus stop, homicide detective Matt Sinclair catches the case. It's his first since being bumped to desk duty for a bust that went south fast. With few leads and plenty of attention, it's the worst kind of case to help him get back up to speed. It only gets worse as the bodies start to pile up--first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2015
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Summary: Two of Lewis' novels depict the hipocrisy and complacency of middle-class America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LIBRARY OF AMERICAN 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LEWISUpton, Dell.
Summary: Dell Upton's revolutionizing interpretation examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In giving particular attention to indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, Brooklyn Bridge, and native American houses, in addition to the great monuments of traditional histories such as Jefferson's Monticello and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.973 UPTSummary: "Unquestionably Britain's finest female vocalist, Dusty Springfield made some of the greatest recordings of the sixties. This retrospective honors her enduring legacy, and features 20 complete performances filmed from 1964 to 1969, many of which are available for the first time on DVD. In between the performances are new interviews with Burt Bacharach, and Dusty's background singers Madeline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BRIUpton, Joe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saquatch Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.275 UPTSinclair, Iain
Summary: "The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SINCLAIR, IAIN SINSinclair, Phoebe
Summary: For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023