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Atlas of the great plains2011
Summary: 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference categoryThe Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understudied and overlooked. The Atlas of the Great Plains,... more »- place hold (0)
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Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet--And Why We're Following (Original)2021
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on order - publisher release date: April 6, 2021
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Reckoning with race : America's failure2017
Summary: Confronts America's most intractable problem -- race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes... more »- place hold (0)
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The archaeological guide to Iowa2015
Summary: Iowa has the reputation of being one big corn field, so you may be surprised to learn it boasts a rich crop of recorded archaeological sites as well-approximately 27,000 at last count. Some are... more »- place hold (0)
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Fashionable clothing from the Sears catalogs : mid 1940s2003
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Buildings of Iowa1993
Summary: In Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim trace Iowa's architectural history from the earliest Native American influences to the present. Divided into five regional areas -- Mississippi... more »- place hold (0)
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Hancher vs. Hilton : Iowa's rival university presidents2016
Summary: In the late 1950s presidents of rival schools the University of Iowa, and Iowa State, began a several-year feud which redefined both institutions. While President of Iowa State, James Hilton... more »- place hold (0)
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The horrors of Auschwitz2017
Summary: The Nazi campaign against Jewish people living in their territories began slowly, with the gradual erosion of their rights to own property, hold a job, or marry non-Jews. These indignities... more »- place hold (0)
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The guide to Iowa's state preserves2001
Summary: The Iowa state preserves system was created in 1965; a decade later, thirty preserves had been dedicated, including “six native prairies, a native White Pine stand, the state's only Sphagnum bog, a... more »- place hold (0)
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Tex Smith's hot rod history. Book two, The glory years : tracing America's most popular automotive hobby1994
Summary: This book is a look at hot roddings colorful past, as reported by the legendary figures who lived the golden years. Author Tom Medley, himself one of the great stories of rodding, has visited with... more »- place hold (0)
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors2021
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on order - publisher release date: February 8, 2021
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Entertaining at Terrace Hill : a celebration of fine food and families2008
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School safety2016
Summary: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly... more »- place hold (0)
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Manners & customs of Bible times2007
Summary: One of four books in the ILLUSTRATED BIBLE SUMMARY series, Manners and Customs of Bible Times illuminates much of the Bible by providing information that would have been well known to those who wrote... more »- place hold (0)
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From suffrage to the Senate : America's political women : an encyclopedia of leaders, causes & issues2006
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Encyclopedia of the underground railroad2006
Summary: "Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next two hundred years. By the onset of the Civil War in 1861,... more »- place hold (0)
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History of the Spirit Lake massacre!1996
Summary: #Originally published: New Britain, Ct. : L.P. Lee, 1857.#Includes bibliographical references and index.- place hold (0)
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Family reunion : essays on Iowa1995
Summary: This collection of authors' personal perspectives on Iowa and its people is designed to celebrate the state's 150th birthday. - Amazon- place hold (0)
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Ah, you Iowans! : at home, at work, at play, at war1992
Summary: A new collection of essays by the witty Iowan journalist takes the reader from Sam's Barber Shop in Audubon to the Middle East to interview Persian Gulf soldiers from Iowa. By the author of Babe: An Iowa Legend. - Amazon- place hold (0)
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Heritage of music1990
Summary: This handsome new reference is an encyclopedic record of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present day. With a lively text and copious illustrations, each volume is a complete survey of the... more »- place hold (0)
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Night2006
Summary: A personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of... more »- place hold (1)
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Night2017
Summary: Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death.- place hold (0)
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Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption2010
Summary: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean... more »- place hold (0)
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Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption2014
Summary: Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.- place hold (0)
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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind2015
Summary: "One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most... more »- place hold (3)
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Man's search for meaning2006
Summary: In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of... more »- place hold (0)
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Maus I : a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history1986
Summary: The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBetween the world and me2015
Summary: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWe should all be feminists2015
Summary: In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first... more »- place hold (0)
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Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen2009
Summary: McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through... more »- place hold (0)
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Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began1991
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews... more »- place hold (0)
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Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world -- and why things are better than you think2018
Summary: When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we... more »- place hold (0)
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Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game2004
Summary: Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur... more »- place hold (0)
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Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest2001
Summary: They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes --... more »- place hold (0)
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The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer2010
Summary: A magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it.- place hold (0)
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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness2020
Summary: As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been... more »- place hold (0)
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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness2010
Summary: As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been... more »- place hold (0)
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Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 102008
Summary: Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda... more »- place hold (0)
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How to be an antiracist2019
Summary: "The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of anti-racism re-energizes and reshapes the conversation about racial... more »- place hold (1)
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Columbine2009
Summary: Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.- place hold (0)
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