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26142) The catcher was a spy
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Moe Berg describes the colorful, vagabond life of the baseball player and spy, detailing his wartime exploits as an OSS operative gathering information on Hitler's atomic bomb project.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English...
26144) Mistaken identity
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (approximately 395 minutes.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a van accident resulted in five deaths,Taylor University faculty, students, and families grieved their losses and joined in hope as one young woman, Laura Van Ryn, fought for her life in a hospital bed. Five weeks later came a shocking surprise to the families of students Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one had been buried under the wrong name, one had been in a coma and cared for by the wrong family. This case of mistaken identity stunned...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
The definitive edition.
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
8 books (283 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
26146) Fidel
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
8 books (xiii, 334 pages ; 25 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
26148) God's plan for Luther & me
Publisher
Boettcher/Trinklein Television, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther asked, "What does this mean?" When Luther answered that question as he studied God's word, God led him to reform the church. His answers brought God's people back to the truths of the Bible. What does your child know about Luther? Through this short narrated film, children learn not only a history of Martin Luther and the Reformation, but also the "What does this mean?" of being a young Lutheran Christian today.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
25th anniversary edition REVISED.
Physical Desc
8 books (252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"When first published a generation ago, Witnesses to the Holocaust gave voice to the survivors and their liberators living in MInnesota and told their stories; it was timely, even urgent. Now the book is an indispensable record of those who rebuilt their lives in the Twin Cities area and its readers must now become witnesses to the witnesses. Their stories must be told generation to generation. Sadly, we live in a world desperately in need of resilience...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (67 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What makes an American legend? find out in these fascinating stories of three of our national treasures, including Johnny Appleseed, whose apple trees bore the fruit that fed a nation of pioneers; Sacagawea, the Native American woman who bravely guided Lewis and Clark on their westward journey; and John Muir, a valiant protector of the West's natural wonders and founder of the Sierra Club"--Container.
26151) Da Vinci and the code he lived by: the unique vision and determination of the renaissance master
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
26152) Luther then: Lutherans today
Author
Publisher
Northwestern Publishing House
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.) + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Luther Then--Lutherans Today celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation with a new curriculum that teaches children the meaning of Martin Luther's work for their lives today. The curriculum uses Luther's faith as an example to students to explain: The plan God had for Luther and the plan he has for all believers, the truth and authority of God's perfect Word, the challenges and victories of witnessing to others about God, and the...
26153) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
26154) Come up and get me
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the...
26155) American experience: LBJ
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 235 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
26156) This side of wild
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him across a desert. Through his interactions with dogs, horses, birds, and more, Gary has been struck with the belief that animals know more than we may fathom....
Author
Series
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[VOX edition].
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
Multiple
Description
In this vibrant bilingual picture book biography of musician Tito Puente, readers will dance along to the beat of this mambo king's life. Tito Puente loved banging pots and pans as a child, but what he really dreamed of was having his own band one day. From Spanish Harlem to the Grammy Awards-and all the beats in between-this is the true life story of a boy whose passion for music turned him into the "King of Mambo."
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Vox books edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a quiet harbor in New England, a sea captain named Ellis is visited by a seagull that lands on the back of his family's passenger schooner one afternoon. Ellis feeds the seagull, and by the end of the week, it was eating crackers right out of his hand! Their friendship lasted the summer, and four years later, the wild seagull Polly still visits. This nonfiction story about an unlikely friendship is sure to charm young readers.
Series
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hr., 40 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four biographies of figures who were influential in founding the United States of America and the stories behind two important documents that shaped the new nation.