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Basketball coaches Oklahoma Sayre Drama Basketball for girls Oklahoma Sayre Drama Discrimination in sports Oklahoma Sayre Drama High schools Oklahoma Sayre Drama Large type books Oklahoma Fiction Oklahoma Oklahoma City Sayre (Okla.) Drama School board members Oklahoma Sayre Drama United StatesBarton, Chris
Summary: A profoundly moving nonfiction picture book about tragedy, hope, and healing from the award-winning author. Sometimes bad things happen, and you have to tell everyone. Sometimes terrible things happen, and everybody knows. On April 19, 1995, something terrible happened in Oklahoma City: a bomb exploded, and people were hurt and killed. But that was not the end of the story. Those who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.325 BARSummary: It traces the events that led McVeigh to that day and recounts the stories of the survivors, first-responders, US Marshals, FBI investigators, and journalists who covered the events. The film provides an in-depth and provocative exploration of the white supremacist, extremist militia movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s and still makes news today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OKLHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: "The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "In Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping, during one unforgettable summer, three generations of one family receive the best gift of all time: a second chance ... The day her doctor says the one word that no one wants to hear, Amy Bergstrom discovers a secret that her husband of 25 years has been keeping from her. Now that the months of treatment and surgeries are behind her, she escapes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCLKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing took his mother from him. Every year, Brady visits the site on the anniversary to remember her. A decade ago on that day, he met Jenna Phillips, who was also a child when her parents were killed in the attack. Brady and Jenna shared a deep heart connection and a single beautiful day together at the memorial. But after that, Brady never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsbury 2018Toobin, Jeffrey
Summary: "Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 TOOFerber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERAnderson, Sam
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 ANDSumner, Jamie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMSummary: Coach Clay Driscoll is a small town basketball coach who seems to have everything going against him. A team he doesn't want. A town that doesn't support girl's sports and small town politics that threaten to undermine any chance he has of winning. But his pride and his "girls" refuse to let him quit. Both the young women and their hard-headed coach fight for equality and a share of the dream,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a brand-new love story in the Baxter Family collection about two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy two people desperate to find each other and the connection they shared for a single day a day that changed everything. Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing killed his mother. Every year,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINHenderson, Caroline A. (Caroline Agnes)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 HENBurton, Krista
Summary: "Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost--or possibly gained--by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BURBeard, Hilary
Summary: A young adult adaptation of Tim Madigan's The Burning, which discusses the circumstances of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 BEACobb, Russell
Summary: "In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfeit tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land. Writer and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 COBBishop, Jeanne
Summary: "Grace from the Rubble by Jeanne Bishop tells the riveting true story of how tragedy destined two men to become enemies - the father of a daughter killed in the Oklahoma City bombing and the father of her killer - and the astonishing journey that led themto forge an extraordinary friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 BISSkogen, J. M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MVP Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.32364 SKOWallis, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999