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Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a glimmer of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure. Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived teo bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs. After enduring decades of harsh treatments and invasive therapie…
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- Ed.1, 2018
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- xviii, 280 p.: ilus.; 21 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 926.1 COH c
Unprecedented : The Masters and Me
In 1997, Tiger Woods was already among the most watched and closely examined athletes in history. But it wasn't until the Masters Tournament that Tiger Woods's career would definitively change forever. Tiger Woods, then only 21, won the Masters by a historic 12 shots, which remains the widest margin of victory in the tournament's history, making it arguably among the most seminal events in golf…
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- Cet. 1, 2011
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-0-7515-6799-1
- Collation
- 250 p. : ill ; 25cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 927.9 TIG
Pope Francis The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
For two years, Pope Francis Has enchanted and bewildered the world in equal measure with his compassion and his contradictions. Expanding greatly on his acclaimed earlier book Pope Fanci's: Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely reexamines the complex past of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and adds nine new chapters, revealing many untold, behind the scenes stories that explain this pope of paradoxes. Valle…
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- First US. edition published 2015
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-63286-115-3
- Collation
- xxvi, 472 p.: ill.; 25 cm
- Series Title
- Biography
- Call Number
- 922.1 VAL p
Pope Francis The Year of Mercy
This handsomely illustrated book contains a collection of quotes from the pope's speeches. prayers. and tweets that directly refer to the theme most often used by Pope Francis during the first two years of his papacy, Jorge Mario Bergoglio 's personal life and his pastoral actions have always been characterized by his special attention to the poor, the disadvantaged, and the needy, and it is th…
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- 2015
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-0-8478-4553-8
- Collation
- 274 p: ill.; 20 cm
- Series Title
- Biography
- Call Number
- 922.1SAN p
VICTORIA a Life
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children's marriages. Too many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging, stiff widow paraded as the figurehead to an all-made imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain's longest-reigning monarc…
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- First ed., 2014
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-59420-599-6
- Collation
- xiv, 644 p.: ill.; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 941.08 WIL v
A Brief Life : Charlie Chaplin
He was the very first icon of the silver screen and remains one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces, even a hundred years after his first film. But who was the man behind the moustache? What dove the artist who not only directed the films but held the camera and acted in front of it? Peter Ackroyd turns the spotlight on Caplin's often controversial life as well as on his classic film…
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- First ed., 2014
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-0-385-53737-7
- Collation
- vii, 296: ill.; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 927.9 ACK c
Mourinho
It's very hard for me to put my fifteen years asa a manager into words - the pivotal moments, my emotions, my memories. But images make it easier - images that I keep in my heart, in my soul, images that let me dive into these moments and talk about them like they happened yesterday.rnrnThere have been so many books written by people that don't even know me, so many books full of untrue comment…
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- First published in 2015
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-0-7553-6553-1
- Collation
- 266 p.: ill.; 22 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 927.9 MOU m
Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-reator of punk, global brand and grandmother, a true living legend. Her career has succesfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award winning biographer Ian Kelly,…
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- First published 2014
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4472-5412-6
- Collation
- 464 p; ilus.; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 927.4 WES v
Churchill
To many observers, Winston Churchill was the savior of his nation, even of Western civilization: "the greatest Briton" who ever lived. Detractors might agree with Evelyn Waugh, who described Churchill as "always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality." Historian Ashley Jackon lucidly and entertainingly describes the contours and contradictions of Churchill's …
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- First published in 2014
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-62365-804-5
- Collation
- xiv, 418 p.; ilus.; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 923.1 JAC c
A Full Life Reflections Ninety : Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.rnrnAt ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Befo…
- Edition
- Cet. 1, 2015
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-5011-1564-6
- Collation
- 258 p. : ill ; 24cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 923.1 JIM
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