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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.0277 Skloot
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616.0277 Skloot
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1st pbk. ed.
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First movie tie-in paperback edition.
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Audiobook Nonfiction
Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
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Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
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Unabridged.
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Audiobook Nonfiction
Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
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Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
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Waterville Public Library - Adult Large Print Fiction
Large Print 616.0277 Skloot
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Large Print 616.0277 Skloot
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Large print ed. ; Unabridged.
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Waterville Public Library - Adult Large Print Fiction
Large Print 616.0277 Skloot
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Large Print 616.0277 Skloot
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
363.17 Moore
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363.17 Moore
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Unabridged.
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As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
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Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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Janesville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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1st Vintage Books ed.
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Janesville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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Waterville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
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364.1523 Larson
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Unabridged.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant...
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant...
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.123 Brown
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797.123 Brown
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Audiobook Fiction
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
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Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
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Unabridged.
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Audiobook Fiction
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
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Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
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Unabridged.
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Large print edition.
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Large print edition.
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This is an epic true-life journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Stroke by stroke,...
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
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921 Angelou
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Montgomery Public Library - Junior Nonfiction
921 Angelou
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921 Angelou
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
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921 Angelou
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
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921 Angelou
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
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921 Angelou
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Montgomery Public Library - Junior Nonfiction
921 Angelou
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921 Angelou
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Unabridged.
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Large print ed.
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A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
6) in cold blood a true account of a multiple murder
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
970.004 Brown
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970.004 Brown
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[1st ed.]
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Illustrated ed.
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Available Online
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Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
8) Hiroshima
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5425 Hersey
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940.5425 Hersey
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A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945-the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors-and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.
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Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
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598.944 Macdona
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
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598.944 Macdona
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Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
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598.944 Macdona
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
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598.944 Macdona
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Unabridged.
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Large print edition.
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"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge....
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8 Sacks
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616.8 Sacks
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In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of...
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This program is read by the author.
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000...
13) Never cry wolf
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An unforgettable odyssey of self-discovery and startling adventure begins as a young, inexperienced biologist is deposited alone onto the frozen Arctic tundra. Once settled, he struggles not only to endure the forces of nature, but also to learn as much as he can about the mysterious and misconstrued habits of the wolves he has been sent to study.
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New Richland Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
949.2 F
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949.2 F
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Waterville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
949.2 F
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949.2 F
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New Richland Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
949.2 F
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949.2 F
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Waterville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
949.2 F
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949.2 F
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Bantam ed.
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Reprint edition.
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A personal narrative of two years (1942-1944) from the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl during World War II in Amsterdam, where she lived in hiding with her family, along with the VanDaans family, in a warehouse. It's a chronicle of spats with her mother, occasional frights, a somewhat abortive romance with young Peter VanDaans, and the difficulties of living in hiding as an adolescent.
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The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife....
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Montgomery Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
910.45 Lansing
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910.45 Lansing
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1st Tyndale House ed.
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Unabridged.
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"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
17) Night
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Le Center Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.54 Wiesel
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940.54 Wiesel
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940.54 Wiesel
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940.54 Wiesel
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.53 Wiesel
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940.53 Wiesel
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Le Center Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.54 Wiesel
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940.54 Wiesel
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940.54 Wiesel
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940.54 Wiesel
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.53 Wiesel
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940.53 Wiesel
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
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The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild's pilot...
19) A moveable feast
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First Scribner Classics edition.
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Hemingw
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921 Hemingw
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A Hemingway memoir recounting stories of himself, his wife, and his literary friends during their early years in Paris.
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
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500 Bryson
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Montgomery Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
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500 Bryson
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
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500 Bryson
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
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500 Bryson
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Montgomery Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
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500 Bryson
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
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500 Bryson
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Abridged.
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction
Large Print 500 Bryson
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Large Print 500 Bryson
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction
Large Print 500 Bryson
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Large Print 500 Bryson
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"Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see of there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science in school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what...