Jacobs
Summary: "Jacobs was a Civil War-era slave who was brutally murdered. In the present day, the author meets Jacobs's ghost and learns the story of his life as a slave, a runaway, and a vagrant in nineteenth-century America"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 DEWJacobs, Alan
Summary: As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--political, social, religious--Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 JACJacobs, Evan
Summary: Alden Nash is a video gamer. His skills have earned him elite gamer status and wealth. Currently, he ranks in the world's top 10. Then Alden's agent gets him an amazing deal to test a virtual reality game that's in secret development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACJacobs, Jonnie.
Summary: Marta Crawford is away on business when she stops at the hotel bar after a particularly difficult day. There she meets the charming Todd Wilson and, much to her dismay, wakes up the next morning in his bed. Filled with remorse and regret, she tells Todd she's made a terrible mistake and puts her reckless behavior behind her. But Todd isn't willing to let go. He follows her, worms his way into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, Kate
Summary: Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota runs the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 JacobsJacobs, Steve
Contents: The quiet revolution -- Your return on revolution -- Drivers of sustainable high performance -- Putting behavioral leadership into practice: seven essential steps -- Game-changing plan deployment -- Coaching for elite performance -- Changing the way organizations change -- Winning on culture -- Developing behavioral leaders -- Building enterprise advantage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 JACJacobs, Timothy.
Summary: This book is a guided tour of the world of Jack Nicklaus golf course design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.352 JACJacobs, Daniel
Summary: Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and killed eleven people. The resulting offshore oil discharge, the largest ever in the United States, polluted much of the Gulf for months, wreaking havoc on its inhabitants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8 JACJacobs, Emma
Summary: "Discover a new side of Paris, hidden in plain sight, with this beautifully illustrated guide to the city's smaller collections and best-kept secrets, from artists' studios to scientific museums. A visit to Paris can often seen like a highlight reel--the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower. But Paris isn't only about the big attractions; in fact, some might say it's the offbeat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.0944 JACJacobs, Evan
Summary: Expelled from high school number one, Tyler Ruiz is attending his second. Not a great record for a sophomore with anger issues. Then he meets Sara Allen. Tyler’s a good-looking guy, so he figures Sara’s an easy hookup. But she isn’t. She’s complicated. And uninterested. Which makes Tyler want her even more. As he learns about Sara’s punk rock world, Tyler’s protective outer layers peel away....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2015
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Summary: Hollye Jacobs describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience with breast cancer and gives details about diagnosis, treatment, side effects and recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 JACJacobs, Jane
Summary: Publisher's description: Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities. In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901 JACJacobs, Jonnie.
Summary: Young Chloe Henderson was raised in foster homes. Aged out of the system when she turned 18, she moved in with her abusive boyfriend, Trace Rodriguez, hoping to make a life for herself and the child that they are expecting. While they're out for a Sunday drive, Trace stops at a convenience store in San Francisco's rundown Bayview neighborhood. He tells Chloe to wait in the car, but she goes in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, Kate
Summary: Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Its Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat-- and occasionally clash-- over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JACJacobs, Kate
Summary: This sequel to "The Friday Night Knitting Club" returns to the Manhattan yarn store, Walker & Daughter, five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at New York University, running the yarn store part-time with the help of the Friday Night Knitting Club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JACJacobs, Lana
Summary: Angelina and her friends plant a flower garden at their school. But the next day, the birds ruin all of their hard work. Can Angelina save her beautiful garden?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Jacobs, Liska
Summary: "A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/FSG Originals 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 JacobsJacobs, Alan
Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEWIS, C.S. JACJacobs, Alan
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Worlds of reading -- Sentences -- A commonplace book -- Robert Alter's fidelity -- A religion for atheists -- Bran flakes and harmless drudges -- On the recent publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works -- The poet's prose -- The brightest heaven of invention -- Opportunity costs -- The youngest brother's tale -- 2. Signs and wonders -- Reading the signs -- The secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9338 JACJacobs, Francine.
Summary: Follows the adventures of a manatee, or sea cow, from birth till after he leaves his mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Animal JacobsJacobs, Greg
Summary: Offers information on a variety of baseball topics, including the history of the sport, notable players, the Hall of Fame, statistics and records, and scorekeeping, and provides more than 25 puzzles and activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.357 JACJacobs, Greg
Summary: Follows four high school poetry teams who compete in the world's largest youth poetry slam, Louder than a Bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2012