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Blue Earth Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.0277 Skloot
1 available
616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
616.0277 Skloot
1 available
616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Dyckman Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.0277 Skloot
1 available
616.0277 Skloot
1 available
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Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Audiobook Nonfiction
Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Watonwan County Library (St. James) - Adult Audiobook Fiction
Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Compact Disc 616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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New Ulm Public Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction
Large Print 616.0277 Skloot
1 available
Large Print 616.0277 Skloot
1 available
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
363.17 Moore
1 available
363.17 Moore
1 available
Martin County Library: Fairmont - Adult Nonfiction
363.17 Moore
1 available
363.17 Moore
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
HD 6067.2 .U6 M66 2018
1 available
HD 6067.2 .U6 M66 2018
1 available
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New Ulm Public Library - Adult Audiobook Nonfiction
Compact Disc 363.17 Moore
1 available
Compact Disc 363.17 Moore
1 available
Watonwan County Library (St. James) - Adult Audiobook Fiction
Compact Disc 363.17 Moore
1 available
Compact Disc 363.17 Moore
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
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Arlington Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
1 available
364.1523 Larson
1 available
Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
1 available
364.1523 Larson
1 available
Henderson Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 Larson
1 available
364.1523 Larson
1 available
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Dyckman Free Library - Adult Audiobook Fiction
CD 364.1523 Larson
1 available
CD 364.1523 Larson
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 11 people on wait list
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Blue Earth Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
Large Print 364.1523 Larson
1 available
Large Print 364.1523 Larson
1 available
Muir Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction
Large Print 364.1523 Larson
1 available
Large Print 364.1523 Larson
1 available
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century....
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century....
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Arlington Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.123 Brown
1 available
797.123 Brown
1 available
Blue Earth Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.123 Brown
1 available
797.123 Brown
1 available
Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
797.123 Brown
2 available
797.123 Brown
2 available
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Elmore Public Library - AV Equipment
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
1 available
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
1 available
Le Sueur Public Library - Adult Audiobook Fiction
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
1 available
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
1 available
Martin County Library: Fairmont - Adult Audiobook
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
1 available
Compact Disc 797.123 Brown
1 available
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Blue Earth Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
Large Print 797.123 Brown
1 available
Large Print 797.123 Brown
1 available
Elmore Public Library - Adult Large Print
Large Print 797.123 Brown
1 available
Large Print 797.123 Brown
1 available
Martin County Library: Fairmont - Adult Large Print
Large Print 797.123 Brown
1 available
Large Print 797.123 Brown
1 available
Description
This is an epic true-life journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Stroke by stroke,...
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
2 available
921 Angelou
2 available
Comfrey Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
1 available
921 Angelou
1 available
Dyckman Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Angelou
1 available
921 Angelou
1 available
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Audiobook Nonfiction
Compact Disc 921 Angelou
1 available
Compact Disc 921 Angelou
1 available
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Springfield Public Library - Adult Basement
Large Print 921 Angelou
1 available
Large Print 921 Angelou
1 available
Description
A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
6) in cold blood a true account of a multiple murder
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
970.004 Brown
1 available
970.004 Brown
1 available
Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
970.004 Brown
1 available
970.004 Brown
1 available
Gaylord Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
970.6 Brown
1 available
970.6 Brown
1 available
Description
Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
8) Hiroshima
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Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
D 767.25 .H6 H4 1946c
1 available
D 767.25 .H6 H4 1946c
1 available
New Ulm Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5425 Hersey
1 available
940.5425 Hersey
1 available
Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5425 Hersey
1 available
940.5425 Hersey
1 available
Description
A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945-the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors-and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.
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New Ulm Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
1 available
598.944 Macdona
1 available
Saint Peter Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
1 available
598.944 Macdona
1 available
Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944 Macdona
1 available
598.944 Macdona
1 available
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Martin County Library: Fairmont - Adult Large Print
Large Print 598.944 Macdona
1 available
Large Print 598.944 Macdona
1 available
Description
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge....
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Blue Earth Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8 Sacks
1 available
616.8 Sacks
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
RC 351 .S195 1985
1 available
RC 351 .S195 1985
1 available
Waseca Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8 Sacks
1 available
616.8 Sacks
1 available
Description
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of...
11) Out of Africa
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Madelia Branch Library - Adult Nonfiction
967.62 Dinesen
1 available
967.62 Dinesen
1 available
Martin County Library: Fairmont - Adult Nonfiction
921 Dinesen
1 available
921 Dinesen
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
DT 434 .E2 B6 1970
1 available
DT 434 .E2 B6 1970
1 available
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Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
DT 450.435 .G68 1998
1 available
DT 450.435 .G68 1998
1 available
Description
This program is read by the author.
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000...
13) Never cry wolf
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
599.7 M936
1 available
599.7 M936
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
QL 737 .C22 M682
1 available
QL 737 .C22 M682
1 available
Description
An unforgettable odyssey of self-discovery and startling adventure begins as a young, inexperienced biologist is deposited alone onto the frozen Arctic tundra. Once settled, he struggles not only to endure the forces of nature, but also to learn as much as he can about the mysterious and misconstrued habits of the wolves he has been sent to study.
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Children Junior Nonfiction
Junior 921 Frank
2 available
Junior 921 Frank
2 available
Dyckman Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 Frank
1 available
921 Frank
1 available
Elmore Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
Junior 921 Frank
1 available
Junior 921 Frank
1 available
Description
A personal narrative of two years (1942-1944) from the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl during World War II in Amsterdam, where she lived in hiding with her family, along with the VanDaans family, in a warehouse. It's a chronicle of spats with her mother, occasional frights, a somewhat abortive romance with young Peter VanDaans, and the difficulties of living in hiding as an adolescent.
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
305.42 Wolf
1 available
305.42 Wolf
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
HQ 1219 .W65 1991
1 available
HQ 1219 .W65 1991
1 available
Description
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife....
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Gaylord Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
919.89 Lansing
1 available
919.89 Lansing
1 available
Hanska Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
AD NF 919.89 LAN
1 available
AD NF 919.89 LAN
1 available
Montgomery Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
910.45 Lansing
1 available
910.45 Lansing
1 available
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Butterfield Branch Library - Adult Audiobook Nonfiction
Compact Disc 919.9 Lansing
1 available
Compact Disc 919.9 Lansing
1 available
Description
"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
17) Night
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Arlington Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.54 Wiesel
1 available
940.54 Wiesel
1 available
Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
940.54 Wiesel
2 available
940.54 Wiesel
2 available
Comfrey Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.54 Wiesel
1 available
940.54 Wiesel
1 available
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
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Dyckman Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
982.6 Read
1 available
982.6 Read
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
TL 553.9 .R4
1 available
TL 553.9 .R4
1 available
New Ulm Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
982.6 Read
1 available
982.6 Read
1 available
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild's pilot...
19) A moveable feast
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Blue Earth County Library (Mankato) - Adult Nonfiction
818.5 H488
1 available
818.5 H488
1 available
Martin Luther College Library - Stacks
PS 3515 .E37 Z525
1 available
PS 3515 .E37 Z525
1 available
Springfield Public Library - Adult Basement
921 Hemingw
1 available
921 Hemingw
1 available
Description
A Hemingway memoir recounting stories of himself, his wife, and his literary friends during their early years in Paris.
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Blue Earth Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
1 available
500 Bryson
1 available
Dyckman Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
1 available
500 Bryson
1 available
Montgomery Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 Bryson
1 available
500 Bryson
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Waseca Public Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction
Large Print 500 Bryson
1 available
Large Print 500 Bryson
1 available
Description
"Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see of there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science in school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what...