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#1 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow | xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 510.9252 LEE | |
2016. | First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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2017. | First William Morrow paperback edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xviii, 346 pages, 14 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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[2017]. | Illustrated edition. | William Morrow | xxii, 348 pages, 14 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD 510.9252 LEE
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Harper Audio | 9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 510.9252 LEE |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | HarperCollins | 1 audio disc (mp3 format) (approximately 10 3/4 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own...
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#2 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).
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[2016] | First edition. | 264 pages ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 305.562 VANCE | |
2018. | First Harper paperback edition. | 272 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD 305.562 VANCE
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Harper Audio : | 6 audio discs (6 3/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 305.562 VANCE |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Harper Audio | 1 audio disc (mp3 format) (6 3/4 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2018 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available
LARGE PRINT 305.562 VANCE
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2017. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press/Large Print Press | 381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT 305.562 VANCE |
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©2017. | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 420 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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#3 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
791.43028 REYNOLDS
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[2013] | First edition. | William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 791.43028 REYNOLDS |
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2013 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2013 | First HarperLuxe edition. | 429 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm | English | Available from another library
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Description
Reynolds, a film legend and Hollywood icon, shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age. She includes stories from her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, and intimate details of her marriages and family life.
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#4 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
972.85 PRE
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2017. | First edition. | Grand Central Publishing | viii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 972.85 PRE |
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 10 audio discs (630 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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Large print [edition]. | viii, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT 972.85 PRE | |
Large print edition. | 440 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (630 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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Description
Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012 Preston joined a team of scientists using classified...
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#5 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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2008. | First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 791.43028 FISHER | |
2009. | First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | 163 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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[2009] | Simon & Schuster Audio | 3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2009] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 3 audio discs (3 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2008] | Simon & Schuster Audio | 3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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"Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir"--Back cover.
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#6 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available
Y973.921 BAI
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[2019] | Young Readers' Edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xii, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available Y973.921 BAI |
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[2017] | Unabridged. | HarperCollinsPublishers | 9 audio discs (10 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2017 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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[2017] | First HarperLuxe edition. | HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xxiii, 492 pages (large print), 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available from another library
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
973.921 BAI
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | First edition. | William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xvii, 346 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 973.921 BAI |
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"As Eisenhower ushered Kennedy out of the White House after three hours and forty minutes, Kennedy asked if he might call on Eisenhower in the future if he needed advice. Of course, Ike said. In reality, Ike wasn't thinking about retirement. His heart was pumping as he walked back to his office. He had six weeks to make his final move. Ike intended to close out his presidency with a world-changing message. Rather than going meekly into the night,...
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#7 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
940.5426 ORE
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2016. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 940.5426 ORE |
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2016 | OverDrive | Henry Holt and Co | English | Available Online
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2016 | Henry Holt and Co | English | Available Online
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2016. | Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 513 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT 940.5426 ORE | |
2020. | Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 511 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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Description
"Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
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#8 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 48 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
616.99424 KAL
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Random House | 228 pages ; 19 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 616.99424 KAL |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 5 audio discs (5 1/2 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 241 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available from another library
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Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
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#9 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
612.8233 LEW
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[2017] | First Edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | 362 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 612.8233 LEW |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Audioworks | 9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | OverDrive | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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2016 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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[2017] | Thorndike Press | 563 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT 153.4 LEW | |
2017. | Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 562 pages (large print) ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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Description
Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in...
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#10 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
818.54 FIS
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[2016] | Blue Rider Press | 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 818.54 FIS |
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD 818.54 FIS
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio : | 4 audio discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 818.54 FIS |
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2016 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017. | Center Point Large Print edition. | Center Point Large Print | 208 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available from another library
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Description
In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisiting her diaries, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity...
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#11 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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2004. | Penguin Press | 818 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available 973.4 HAMILTON | |
2005. | Penguin Books | 818 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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[2004] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 29 audio discs (approximately 35 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 973.4 HAMILTON | |
[2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 29 audio discs (35 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2016] | Abridged. | Penguin Audio | 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2004] | Abridged. | Penguin Audio | 10 audio discs (approximately 11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2004] | Library edition. | Books on Tape | 24 audio discs (72 min. each) : digital | Available from another library
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2005 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow here recounts...
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#12 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available
791.45028 GAINES
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[2016] | W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, Inc | xvii, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available 791.45028 GAINES |
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD 791.45028 GAINES
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Thomas Nelson | 5 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 791.45028 GAINES |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Thomas Nelson, Inc | 1 audio disc (mp3 format) (5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | Thomas Nelson | English | Available Online
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Sometimes the messiest stuff and the biggest mistakes can take you someplace wonderful. With the help of their hit TV show, Fixer Upper, the husband and wife team of Chip and Joanna Gaines have transformed the seemingly everyday work of renovating homes and flipping houses in Waco, Texas, into something much more. With their fun personalities, good humor, strong love of family, and unique design style, they've managed to capture the hearts of Americans...
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#13 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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[2019] | 2019 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition. | xiv, 288 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 792.7028 NOAH | |
2016. | First edition. | x, 288 pages ; 25 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 792.7028 NOAH |
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD 792.7028 NOAH
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio, Inc | 7 audio discs (528 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 792.7028 NOAH |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 1 audio disc (mp3 format) (8 hr., 46 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | 1 book club kit (contents vary). | Available from another library
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2019 | 1 kit (8 books) ; in reinforced, zippered bag 36 x 48 x 15 cm + 1 reading group guide sheet | Available from another library
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 9 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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#14 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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791.45028 REMINI
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[2015] | First edition. | Ballantine Books | xiv, 234 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 791.45028 REMINI |
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in Hollywood. But being a troublemaker has come at a cost. That was never more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Now, in this frank memoir, the former King of...
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#15 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
303.483 FRI
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[2016] | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 303.483 FRI |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Macmillan Audio | 16 audio discs (20 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Available Online
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2016 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Available Online
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2017. | Thorndike Press Large Print | 821 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available from another library
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Description
Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces--Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)--are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late"--We should pause...