Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
"A story about love, marriage, compromise, parenthood and the difference between the life one imagined and reality."*
Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer, a California-bred feminist, surfer, and aspiring journalist, met Ismail Suayah, sincere, passionate, kind, yet from a very different world. One of eight siblings born in an impoverished fishing village in Libya, Ismail was raised a Muslim-and his faith informed his life. When Krista and Ismail...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
4) The struggle
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 3
Formats
Description
When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Mindy, to Christian County, Kentucky, where two of his brothers now reside, Hannah is very reluctant to leave her Amish home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Author
Formats
Description
"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
Author
Series
My hero academia. Main series volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
As the Class 1-A students begin their internships, Midoriya goes to study under Gran Torino, who was once All Might's mentor, while the League of Villains unleashes a terrifying new enemy.
10) The struggle
Author
Series
Vampire diaries. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Profiles two vampire brothers--Damon, who is so determined to make Elena his queen of darkness that he would kill his brother to possess her, and Stefan, who desperately seeks the power to destroy Damon.
Two vampire brothers compete for high stakes--the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
As part of Windsor's efforts to recognize the history of its downtown and provide preservation planning data for the economic revitalization of Main Street, the Town secured a State Historical Fund grant. The major goal of this project was to acquire as much architectural and historical data as possible for properties in the downtown Windsor survey area, allowing Town staff and others to make sound preservation planning decisions about the central...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Presents the first two volumes in the Vampire Diaries series, in which popular and beautiful high school senior Elena finds herself torn between two vampire brothers, the dark and brooding Stefan who wants to protect her from the horrors of his past and the dangerously attractive Damon, who is determined to use her to get revenge on his brother.
Author
Series
Description
The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Mein Kampf - 'My Struggle' is an autobiography by the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1936. The book was edited by Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess."--Jacket
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific - from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan - Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman. "Would I believe it now, when my whole world as I knew it came to an end?" Covering her courtship and marriage to Steven Curtis Chapman, struggles for emotional balance, and living with grief, Mary Beth's story is our story--wondering where God is when the worst happens. In Choosing to SEE, she...
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"In the Four Corners region of rural southwest Colorado sits a one-room schoolhouse that holds the center of attention among the local residents of McElmo Canyon. Not so long ago, most of the children attending Battle Rock Charter School, first through sixth grade, were related. Most of their parents still earned a living either ranching or farming; many of their homes were still heated only by wood-burning stoves; they traveled to school on the single...
20) Salone italiano: the true story of an Italian immigrant family's struggles in southwestern Colorado
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A hundred years ago, in the legendary mining towns of Silverton and Durango, racial tensions among American immigrants had reached a fever pitch. Salone Italiano is a lavish account of one Italian family's struggles, passions, and adventures as outsiders in a strange new land. Old world customs and traditions collide with the family's newfound American lifestyle when romances begin to flourish between immigrants of different regions and classes.