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Chess Records (Firm) Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) History Cohen, Rich Hicks, Albert W approximately 1820-1860 Picture dictionaries, English Political planning Citizen participation Social change Citizen participation Sound recording executives and producers Illinois Chicago Biography SuperheroesPaul, Rich
Summary: "There’s a story about Rich Paul that everyone knows: A twenty-one-year-old kid from Cleveland who sells sports jerseys out of his car meets a high school basketball phenom named LeBron James at an airport—the two become friends and forge a decades-long partnership that reinvents the business of sports. That random meeting might seem like the lucky break that changed Paul’s life. But a moment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc Lit 101 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PAUL PAURobin, Michael
Summary: Defines over five hundred words using simple sentences and illustrations from classic DC Comics art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Bookworks 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 423 ROBRich, Carrie
Summary: "A citizen statesperson is a superpowered individual who is committed to improving his or her community and the world through values and activism. Two dynamics drive the need for citizen statespeople at this moment: 1) loss of confidence in traditional institutions of power, and 2) the technology that contributes to the superpowered individual. Being a citizen statesperson starts at a local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 RICCohen, Rich
Summary: After his first Cubs game when Rich Cohen was eight, his father asked him to make a promise. "Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not win," he explained, "and because of that, a Cubs fan will have a diminished life determined by low expectations. That team will screw up your life." Here he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days-- not just what happened, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.357 COHCohen, Rich
Summary: "An exploration of parenting, sports, and the suburbs, all through the sport of children's ice hockey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 COHCohen, Rich.
Summary: The bittersweet story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. A strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, it is also the story of immigrants, sugar,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 COHCohen, Rich
Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.357 COHCohen, Rich
Summary: Over three months in the summer before the Civil War, New York suffered a massacre, a flight, a manhunt, and a trial, all of which kept the nation riveted and remade Albert Hicks, the last pirate of New York, into a celebrated antihero. For years Hicks operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime. In 1860 he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 COHCohen, Rich.
Summary: "In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city's sewer tunnels to sabotage German outposts. Abba's chief lieutenants were two teenage girls, Vitka...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 COHCohen, Rich.
Contents: Today you are a man, go get me a drink -- Jew Street -- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance -- 2120 South Michigan -- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick -- The record man pays for our sins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004