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Beam, Cris.

Summary: An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.73 BEA

Beam, Alex.

Summary: "At thirty-nine years old, Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation -- the doctrine of polygamy -- created a rift among his people [Church of Latter-day Saints]; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3092 BEA

Beam, Alex

Summary: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEA

Beam, Alex.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2001

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Beam, Alex.

Summary: Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 BEA

Beam, Christy.

Summary: Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree -- and survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 231.7 BEA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEAM, ANNABEL BEA

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