Montalván, Luis Carlos.
Summary: "Based on the New York Times bestseller, UNTIL TUESDAY, this full-color picture book filled with adorable photographs tells the story of the amazing service dog who helps former U.S. Army Captain Luis Carlos Montalván overcome his combat-related wounds"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J Disablilities MontalvanCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MONSpencer-Wendel, Susan
Summary: A moving and inspirational memoir by celebrated journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPENCER-WENDEL, SUSAN SPEMontalván, Luis Carlos.
Summary: A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours in Iraq. After returning home, however, the pressures of his physical wounds, traumatic brain injury and crippling PTSD took their toll. Haunted by the war and in constant pain, Luis drank, argued, and cut himself off from those he loved. Then he met Tuesday, a beautiful and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MONTALVAN, LUIS CARLOS MonMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8092 MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8092 MYREdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars EdselMontalván, Luis Carlos.
Summary: "Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the tight haircut. There is nothing about me--even the straight, stiff way I carry myself--that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my left...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4092 MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTALVAN, LUIS CARLOS MONMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller. It spawned three children's books, and is the basis for an upcoming movie. Now Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share. Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about amazing felines - including Dewey - all told from the perspective of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: This volume contains inspiring, funny, and heartwarming stories about cats told from the perspective of Dewey's Mom, librarian Myron. Includes never-before-told stories about Dewey, along with other touching cat tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 MYRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 636.80 MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Vicki Myron presents the follow-up to her successful memoir about Spencer Public Library's cat, Dewey Readmore Books. Here she details how this small-town library cat has inspired and touched so many people's lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 636.8 MYR1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.8 MYR
Ball, Troylyn
Summary: Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Nearing fifty, Troy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, TROYLYN BALBauman, Jeff.
Summary: A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAUMAN, JEFF BAUMcFate, Sean.
Summary: Elite American mercenary Tom Locke navigates perilous obstacles and deadly enemies throughout a secret mission to save a businessman's family in Eastern Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFMontalván, Luis Carlos
Summary: Follows service dog Tuesday as he travels with former Captain Luis Carlos Montalván on a train, boat, bus, horse, and pedicab to get to a special event.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.4 MONMyron, Vicki
Summary: "In the tradition of Marley: A Dog Like No Other, this is the story of a cat who was more than a pet, and the amazing effect he had on the people around him. This middle-grade adaptation of the Grand Central bestseller Dewey features an 8-page photo insert, including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew! Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.8 MYRIanelli, Liz
Summary: "There was a huge public outpouring to the recent articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni-including many by suicide-and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece this January covered the shocking facts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IANELLI, LIZ IANMcFate, Sean
Summary: "In this second military action thriller following Shadow War by former Army paratrooper Sean McFate, hero Tom Locke must track a missing Saudi prince deep inside ISIS territory"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008