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Hansen, James E. (James Edward)

Summary: A leading scientist on climate issues offers his views on the growing threat of human-caused climate change and looks at why the proposed solutions are not sufficient to stop a global meltdown.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009

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McPherson, James M.

Summary: Recounts the naval campaigns of the Civil War, discussing the daring and innovation of the Confederate navy in sinking Union ships, and the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast and victories in some of the war's most strategic battles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MCP

Gross, Edward (Edward A.)

Summary: "For the past four decades, no film saga has touched the world in the way that Star Wars has, capturing the imaginations of filmgoers and filmmakers alike. Now, for the first time ever, Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman... are telling the entire story of this blockbuster franchise from the very beginning in a single exhaustive volume. Featuring the commentaries of hundreds of actors and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GRO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GRO

Renner, Rolf Günter.

Summary: "Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist." Clement Greenberg.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 REN

Hirsch, Edward

Summary: "We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIR

Stevens, James Talmage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gold Leaf Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 STE

Ayers, Edward L.

Summary: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies is a landmark work of stirring historical narrative and deep scholarship. It gives us the Civil War on an intimate scale, as a story of individuals and families, civilians and soldiers, slaves, free blacks and whites, women and men. It upends what has become the standard view of the Civil War. By taking a ground-level view of the war, Edward L. Ayers shows that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AYE

Gross, Edward (Edward A.)

Summary: "There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films. In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action, bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross take you behind the scenes of a franchise...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GRO

Asner, Edward

Summary: Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama’s death panels, and climate change, they are probably just as wrong about what the Constitution says. There’s no way that two hundred-plus years later, the right-wing ideologues know how to interpret the Constitution. On their way home from Philadelphia the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 ASN

Chancellor, Edward

Summary: "A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world's leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here. In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn't always popular-in the ancient world,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.87 CHA

Rhodes, James Ford

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 Rhode

Holland, James

Summary: "Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HOL

Lengel, Edward G.

Summary: "It was one of the most heroic events in American military history. Here is the larger-than-life story of World War I's "Lost Battalion" and the men who survived the ordeal, triumphed in battle, and fought the demons that lingered. In the first week of October 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines--alone. They...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LEN

Jacobs, James Ripley

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorn Books 1969

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Post, Jeffrey Edward

Summary: " Dr. Jeffrey E. Post, curator of the National Gem Collection for more than 25 years, separates fact from fiction in an all-new and original book, revealing fresh information and regaling the reader with anecdotes and tales of some of the world's greatest and most famous gemstones. Dr. Post is the author of the now out-of-print book The National Gem Collection (Abrams, 1997), which has sold...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553.8 POS

Lucas, Edward

Summary: A senior Economist writer argues that the Kremlin's spymasters have excelled in their field beyond the capabilities of their Western-world adversaries, tracing the story behind the 2010 deportation of Anna Chapman while analyzing triumphs and disasters in Western intelligence throughout the Cold War as revealed by a leading Russian NATO spy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 LUC

Benton-Banai, Edward

Summary: Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BEN

James, Henry

Contents: A tragedy of error. -- The story of a year. -- A landscape painter. -- A day of days. -- My friend Bingham. -- Poor Richard. -- The story of a masterpiece. -- The romance of certain old clothes. -- A most extraordinary case. -- A problem. -- De Grey: a romance. -- Osborne's revenge. -- A light man. -- Gabrielle de Bergerac. -- Travelling companions. -- A passionate pilgrim. -- At Isella. --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAM

Schlesinger, Arthur M Jr.

Summary: "Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH VOL 2

Dolnick, Edward

Summary: As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 DOL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.94 DOL

Cooper, William J. (William James)

Summary: Presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 COO

Epstein, Edward Jay

Summary: Challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable the United States' national security systems have become.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 EPS

Herriot, James

Summary: "James Herriot's timeless, heartwarming, and perceptive stories about animals and people have charmed millions of readers around the world, and millions more have watched the popular PBS series All Creatures Great and Small, which is based on his four books. The Wonderful World of James Herriot excerpts the best of his stories to shape the larger tale of his life, his family, and his world,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)

Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LAR

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