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Author
Publisher
Black Dome Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a giant high-tech corporation opens a massive new plant on the outskirts of a small, rural, historic city? And what happens when it just as suddenly leaves? Rising quickly in 1954-1955 on a 200-acre former dairy farm, the new IBM location near Kingston, New York, was a major event for the city and the entire Mid-Hudson Valley, at that time a quiet area supported by apparel companies, a dying brick-making industry, agriculture,...
65) Triumvirate: the story of the unlikely alliance that saved the Constitution and united the nation
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices-powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine
For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Original and illuminating."-The New York Times Book Review
In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another.
Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know...
72) The blue divide
Author
Series
Publisher
Western Michigan University
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience--whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weaving poems into three distinct sections, Linda Nemec Foster pays close attention to not only what divides us, but also to what can heal and redeem our common journey: an artist's notebook; the imagined life...
79) Dutchess County
Publisher
League of Women voters of greater Poughkeepsie
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English