Burks, Ruth Coker
Summary: "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling tohelp. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BurksJamieson, Victoria
Summary: "Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal offamily and daily life in a refugee camp"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 741.5 JamiesonCroke, Vicki.
Summary: "J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India? Not only did he find his calling with the elephants in India, Billy and his elephants became war heroes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.542 CrokeLehto, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 977.499 LehtoAnderson, Scott
Summary: "At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AndersonAzzarello, Brian
Summary: "The Joker has been murdered. His killer is a mystery. Batman is the World's Greatest Detective. But what happens when the person he is searching for is the man staring back at him in the mirror? With no memory of the events of the previous night, Batman is going to need some help. So who better to set him straight than John Constantine? The problem with that is as much as John loves a good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Black Label 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: GRAPHNOV BatmanBildner, Phil
Summary: After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION BildnerBoles, Frank
Summary: "The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 386.5404 BOLES 2018Follett, Ken
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: PBK FIC FollLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 Luxenberg 2020Lipman, Frank
Summary: Fatigue, unexplained back and joint pain, distractibility, irritability, insomnia, and digestive problems leave many of us feeling spent--and there is no pill. This profound feeling of general unwellness is not part of the normal aging process. Here, Dr. Lipman offers a solution to combat the syndrome he calls Spent. He identifies the things in modern life that lead to energy depletion, and he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 LipSweeney, Michael S.
Contents: Bonneville shoreline to Spring Hollow -- The first visitors -- Third Dam to China Cave -- The lure of fur -- China Cave to Twin Creek -- A meeting of the rails -- Twin Creek to Franklin Basin -- The "right place" -- Franklin Basin to Bear Lake -- The heat is on?
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.2 SweenYang, Gene Luen.
Summary: In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers - commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: GRAPHNOV YangHale, Nathan
Summary: "The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 741.5 HaleSteel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SteelJohnson, Yvette
Contents: Part I. Places in time -- Where he was king -- Scattered -- A yellow gal -- Part II. Family -- Black is beautiful -- Coming to terms -- "Get off this place" -- Part III. Surface of the deep -- Colorless -- A catalyst -- A place for the planter class -- Part IV. Some sort of charm -- A magical town -- A not-so magical town -- Making a movement -- Part V. The delta -- From the cotton fields to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 JohnsEgerton, Douglas R.
Contents: The travelers -- The Brahmins -- Readville -- The Sea Islands -- Battery Wagner -- Hospitals and home fronts -- The siege -- Florida -- Liberation -- Occupation -- The veterans -- Epilogue: the legacy of the regiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.741 EgertMartin, Bill
Summary: In a question and answer game, a teacher and her group see a variety of animals, each one a different color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Board Books, Call number: SPANISH BB MartinKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION KoontPeterson, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6622 PeterWein, Elizabeth
Summary: A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's elderly, German-born aunt, Jane Warner, finds it but doesn't report it. Flight-Lieutenant Jamie Beaufort-Stuart intercepts a signal but can't figure it out. Ellen McEwen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2020
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Summary: "For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold. In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts- a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.709 CoveBell, Cece
Summary: The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: GRAPHNOV BellFinlayson, Judith
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001