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| Yogi Berra : eternal Yankee / |
| Barra, Allen. |
| Jen L. said
In this comprehensive and incredibly engaging biography each of Berra's baseball highlights (10 American League Pennants, 8 World Series Championships and 3 Most Valuable Player awards) is meticulously described. From his childhood growing up in St Louis Missouri's Italian neighborhood to his postplayer roles as a manager and coach Barra covers it all and what we embrace throughout is a great athlete and a good guy. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 921 B4493 |
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| The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history |
| Barry, John M., 1947- |
| Jen L. said A fascinating look at the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 and the men and women who were striving to find out what caused influenza and develop a cure. The politics and events of the time are also discussed. A very readable narrative account that should be enjoyed by history lovers. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 614.518 B |
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| Under a flaming sky : the great Hinckley firestorm of 1894 |
| Brown, Daniel, 1951- |
| Jen L. said It had been unusually hot and dry the Summer of 1894 with small fires breaking out regularly. Then on September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged, creating a "firestorm", on the town of Hinckly, MN. trapping over 2,000 people. Over 400 people parished in the raging fire. Many of these thought that the dark skies and strong winds they saw and heard were bringing severe storms; possibly a tornado so they took cover in basements and storm cellars where they suffocated. Brown brings a human voice to this disaster through his use of first hand accounts of eyewitnesses. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 634.9618 B |
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| Asleep : the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's greatest mysterie |
| Crosby, Molly Caldwell. |
| Jen L. said Here's medical curiosity combining history, mystery and riveting storytelling. In a light, excessible, engaging writing style Crosby relates the vexing appearance during World War I of encephalitis lethargic (sleeping sickness) through the stories of patients, doctors and public health servants swept up in an epidemic that affected as many as five million people worldwide in little over a decade. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 362.19684 C 2010 |
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| The lost dogs : Michael Vick's dogs and their tale of rescue and redemption |
| Gorant, Jim. |
| Jen L. said Do remember where you were when the news of football star,Michael Vick, being busted for running a dog fighting ring came out? Expanding on his December 29,2008 Sports Illustrated article Gorant offers a chilling investigation into Vick's dog-fighting operation and the men and women who brought him to justice and rescued his 51 dogs.All but a few of Vick's dogs have been rehabilitated-their family pets and even therapy dogs whose stories Gorant tells.Riveting, heartbreak, and finally hopeful,Gorant's exemplary reporting is essential reading for anyone who cares about animal welfare or what it means to be responsibly human. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 636.0832 G 2010 |
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| Lost in the wild : danger and survival in the North Woods |
| Griffith, Cary J. |
| Jen L.said Dan Stephens, a 22 year old Eagle Scout, was spending the summer of 1998 as a guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). On August 5, 1998 while leading a group of 8 boy scouts and their 2 leaders Dan stepped into the woods alone to look for the next canoe portage and didn't return. In October of 2001 Jason Rasmussen, a third year medical student, decided to go on a three day hike alone in the BWCA. On the first day he took a wrong turn on the unmarked 26 mile Pow Wow Trail and became hopelessly lost in an area of dense brush, bogs and beaver ponds. Griffith skillfully interweaves the extrodinary stories of these two young men and those who searched for them. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 613.69 G |
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| The lure of long distances : why we run |
| Harvie, Robin |
| Jen L. said Have you ever wondered why you or those you love run? Amatuer ultra distance runner Robin Harvie tries to answer this question while giving us a fantastic, enlightening and inspirational look at his own transformation from being a recreational runner to an ultra distance runner. He ran his first marathon on a bet & after yrs of running marathons & not becoming any faster he decided to try to run farther & in 2009 ran in the Spartatholon a 152 mile non-stop race from Athens to Sparta. This is a story for anyone who has ever laced up a pair of running shoes in search of release, of how an ordinary man took on the remarkable to find out what running is really made of. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 796.42092 H 2011 |
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| Ten poems to change your life / |
| Housden, Roger. |
| Kim B. said Do not read this book if you want to keep your life the way it has always been. Ten poems – all by different poets – explore how to live an authentic life by transforming it. At least one of these poems will inspire you to live what you always knew in your bones but never had the words. These poems have the words. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 808.81 H |
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| The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it chang |
| Johnson, Steven, 1968- |
| Jen L. said On August 28, 1854 after cleaning up her sick infant’s diarrhea, working-class Londoner Sarah Lewis innocently tossed the bucket of soiled water into the cesspool of her squalid apartment building. When the deadlist outbreak of cholera in the city’s history subsequently broke out Dr. John Snow fought the miasmatists,who believed that foul air caused disease, to prove that the epidemic was being caused by contaminated water in one of the local public water pumps. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 614.514 J |
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| 56 : Joe DiMaggio and the last magic number in sports |
| Kennedy, Kostya |
| Jen L. said If you love baseball history you know about Joe Dimaggio the Yankees superstar centerfielder. Even if you aren't old enough to have been alive when it happened you've probably heard about Joe's 56 game hitting streak in 1941 a record many experts say will stand forever. Through meticulous research and interviews Kennedy takes readers beyond the field. From the private world inhabited only by DiMaggio and his wife Dorothy to Newark, NJ barbershops, the playgrounds of Queens, and the streets of DiMaggio's hometown, San Francisco Kennedy humanizes an immortal accomplishment. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 796.35709 K 2011 |
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| Merle's door : lessons from a freethinking dog |
| Kerasote, Ted. |
| Jen L. said Attention all dog lovers here is yet another humorous, jubilant and touching story of the relationship between a man and his dog. Ted Kerasote was kayaking and rafting down the San Juan River with friends when a big golden dog (he names Merle) came out the night. Kerasote proceeds to relate the next 13 years of Merle's life with him while exploring the science behind canine behavior and evolution weaving in research on the human - canine bond and musing on the way dogs see the world. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 636.70929 K |
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| The dirty life : on farming, food, and love / |
| Kimball, Kristin |
| Mary B. said Author Kimball accepts an assignment to interview a handsome, determined organic farmer who runs a community farm. She finds herself picking stones out of the broccoli, weeding the tomatoes, and ultimately giving up Manhattan life to marry him and happily work alongside him, even driving the wily draft horses that replace modern tractors. An illuminating, touching, inspiring story. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book S605.5 K56 2010 |
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| Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history |
| Larson, Erik. |
| Jen L. said In a gripping and absorbing fashion Larson has created a fast paced narrative about deadliest hurricane in United States History in which between 6,000 and 8,000 people died and which distroyed 1/3rd of Galvaston, Tx on September 8, 1900. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 976.4139 L |
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| The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of |
| Lopez, Steve. |
| Jen L. said While hustling back to his office Steve Lopez stumbles across Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless African American man coaxing beautiful music from a two-stringed violin. Over the next few days Lopez discovers that Ayers had been a promising string bass player who attended Julliard in the early 1970s. Los Angeles Times columnist,Lopez’s writing which relates the first two years of his friendship with Nathaniel Anthony Ayers is by turns harrowing, winsome, and inspiring. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 921 Ay245 |
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| The ice master : the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk / |
| Niven, Jennifer. |
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The 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition was perhaps the worst-planned arctic exploration in history. The captain declared the ship unfit for the voyage upon seeing it, and the crew consisted of young sailors who had no arctic experience. Niven captivates with her reconstruction of the doomed crew's efforts to survive the harshness of the polar winter, disease, hunger and their own clashing personalities. A fascinating, true adventure story. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 910.46 N |
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| In the land of invented languages : Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan |
| Okrent, Arika |
| Katrin M. said A must-read for all devotees of Esperanto, Klingon, or any other artificial language. An excerpt:So-called normal society, Mark says, spends all these resources figuring out new and exciting ways to drape cloth on our bodies. What’s so bad about having fun with this little language? |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 499.99 O |
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| Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home |
| Parrado, Nando, 1949- |
| Jen L. said In October 1972 Parrado, his rugby teammates, and their fans from Uruguay were flying to Chile to play a match against the Chilean national team when the aircraft carrying the 45 people, crashed on a remote high-altitude glaciated slope in the Andes Mountains. Thirty years after the disaster Parrado, one of the leaders during the disaster, decided that he had to set the record straight about what some of the survivors said about others when they were interviewed as young men by Piers Paul Read for his book Alive |
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| The Colony |
| Tayman, John. |
| Jen L. said A very readable, eye opening, well researched, complete history of the leprosy settlement on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai. We learn about many of the patients, doctors, priests, nuns and other people working on and living on the island. What started out as a type of prison in 1866 over time and through hard work became a leprosy treatment facility that is still in use today. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 614.546 T |
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| Satchel : the life and times of an American legend |
| Tye, Larry. |
| Jen L. said How does one write a story about a man who even during his glory days was as much myth as he was real? Leroy "Satchel" Paige is a poster child for the tragedy of segregated baseball. Tye interviewed more than 200 veteran fellow players of the Negro and Major Leagues and fleshes out the Satchel Paige persona. Through Paige’s hardscrabble years growing up in Jim Crow Alabama to his time with the Negro Leagues’ Kansas City Monarchs, his tours barnstorming against the likes of Dizzy Dean and Bob Feller and seasons played in Cuba, Venezuela ,the Dominican Republic, and the Major Leagues Tye tells the story of one of the finest pitchers ever who finally was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 921 P157 |
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| Triangle : the fire that changed America |
| Von Drehle, Dave. |
| Jen L. said Set against the background of the struggles of Italian and Jewish immigrants, corrupt city politics, and the rise of the fashion industry, we learn of the fire that broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911. A gripping page-turning tale relating the horror of the disaster with little graphic detail. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 974.71 V |
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| Consider the lobster : and other essays / |
| Wallace, David Foster. |
| Katrin M. said To consider these essays, consider this excerpt: To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 814.54 W154 |
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| All my patients have tales : favorite stories from a vet's practice / |
| Wells, Jeff, D.V.M. |
| Jen L. said Wells, a practicing veterinarian in a rural Rocky Mountain Colorado clinic, delivers a humorous and insightful look at his life and work with a wide range of animals. His 36 stories range from treating circus animals to miniature pigs to yaks, along with a host of cat, dog and horse anecdotes. Anyone who loves animals or has enjoyed James Herriot's books will love these short, down-home stories filled with heartfelt emotion and laugh-out-loud incidents. |
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| A brave vessel : the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspir |
| Woodward, Hobson |
| Pat C. said A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture , bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey’s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways’ time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 910.91634 W |
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On Jan 25, 2012 at 12:20, Steve wrote:
