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"Rest in Piece"
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Mystery
Though decades apart, two young girls are connected in a way that is both fantastical and surreal.
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"Swole Planet: Building a Better Body and a Better Earth"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Swole Planet is a guide to help people build a body that’s functional and fit, while at the same time building a planet that’s more sustainable and equitable.
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"Aerosmith to ZZ Top: A Dad and Daughter's Rock and Roll Journey"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
A family shares their journey spanning 27,000 miles, 200-plus performers, and 58 unique venues seeing rock concerts and related stories from their lives. It's not just concerts but also the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Graceland and encounters with their musical idols. Even their car provides the backdrop for memorable moments. Northeast Ohio serves as home base for their Rock & Roll journey!
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"Sunset Blues"
Genre: Fiction, Thriller/Suspense
When a mysterious explosion destroys the Put-in-Bay home of Emerson Moore’s aunt and she disappears, Moore gathers a team of easily sidetracked and hilarious reprobates to find her while knocking heads with a gang of Russian drug runners.
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"The Road Unpaved - Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa’s life has fallen far from picture-perfect. Recovering from brain surgery and desperate to get back to her former self, she signs up for the bike tour of a lifetime—six weeks from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Coast Highway. A remarkable story of transformation and resilience.
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"A Leap of Faith"
Genre: Fiction, Romance
A Leap of Faith follows the lives of three women who are married to doctors, exploring themes of marriage, divorce, death, survival, and friendship. The book also delves into how the friendship between the women continues and how they triumph over their challenges.
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"Fathers and Sons"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
A seminal photography book about the relationship between Fathers and Sons with Portraits and Interviews of famous and not so famous.
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"REMF Life Inside The Wire"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
I was sitting on the Cambodian border on May 4, 1970. From my KSU graduation in 1969 I proceeded directly into the US Army vis-a-vis the draft. This book was driven by my thesis that modern portrayals have substantially missed the experience of the average Vietnam veteran. My fervent hope is to reset the record and provide a more realistic view of what it was really like for the vast majority!
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"Imagine That!"
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
Three friends that play all day, deal with a life lesson, then have magical dreams at night about what they played and solve their life lesson.
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"At Home with the Weeds: A Memoir"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Baleigh takes you through a rollercoaster of love lost and found while grappling with anxiety in the small town of Kent, Ohio.
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"“Who’s Having More Fun than Me”"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1987, after moving back to Akron and working at Kent State. Divorced and a single parent of 2 daughters, I had to navigate a new life, an unpredictable disease and possibly date. The book takes the reader on a journey through turbulent weather as my new husband and our family adjust, ride the storms and thrive through the challenges of MS.
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"Your Brother"
Genre: Historical Fiction
Based upon the author's own family and told through their actual letters, 'Your Brother' is a historical WWII novel. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, four of six Julian brothers enlist to fight for the U.S. Who will survive the war and how did the family back home cope without their sons? Spanning from Okinawa, to Utah, to Normandy, the reader will feel like they're part of a big Italian family.
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"Red and Purple Hiking Boots: An Older Woman's Trek to "It's Never too Late""
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Feel hemmed in by life roles and circumstances? Looking to live your dreams? If so, this book is for you. A Nicaraguan trip to visit her son in the Peace Corps awoke in her a desire to question the assumptions and roles that kept her from realizing her dreams. The result: she moved from a traditional career to an executive coach, while trekking through mountains all over the world - all beginning in her early 60's.
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"Ecology and Evolution: Islands of Change"
Genre: Non-Fiction, Other
Big, complex ideas--how ecological pressures shape the evolutionary processes of adaptation and natural selection--are examined in a setting kids will love learning about: the Galapagos Islands. The hands-on activities, games, and investigations in Ecology and Evolution will guide your students to explore integrated topics from biology and Earth science. Each lesson has a section on the Standards, assessment rubrics, and suggestions.
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"Between The Holidays"
Genre: Fiction, Romance
Even though she was named after Love’s favorite holiday, Val’s relationships left much to be desired. The men in her life seemed to change with the seasons, and love began to feel like a lie she told herself so life wouldn’t feel so pointless. Or rather, it did, until she met them. Kold and Darc have come to heat up the holidays, and they intend to stick around long past New Year’s Eve.
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"Magnificent"
Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction
Q, an alien that escapes from Area 51. Mel, a powerful clairvoyant female human. One chance to save the world from ruin.
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"The Hearing-Loss Guide: Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families"
Genre: Non-Fiction
The Hearing-Loss Guide provides useful first-hand advice from people who have experienced hearing loss themselves, along with accurate treatment information based on Mr. Burkey's 25 years as an audiologist at the Lippy Group for ENT.
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"The Journey of a Bear Hug"
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
A children’s book about how love keeps us close. Back Cover: Have you ever had someone you really love move away? When Emilie moved away, Philip felt lonely and sad, but he also had a brilliant idea. Get ready for Hug's big adventure from one distant friend to another!
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"Meathead: Unraveling the Athletic Brain"
Genre: Non-Fiction
A popular science book debunking the myth of the 'dumb jock' as well as a performance and recovery manual for athletes.
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"Locked Away"
Genre: Fiction, Romance, Thriller/Suspense
When a fight breaks out inside the jail where Heather works and her safety is at risk, an unlikely hero emerges. Now she must choose between the man who saved her life and a brand new relationship with a flirtatious co-worker. Are either of these men worth the risk? Will she find the happily ever after that she’s been looking for her whole life, or will she end up being alone again?
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"The History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
This first concise yet comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate includes authoritative biographies of the great karate masters of the past and the philosophical issues they faced as karate changed and evolved.
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"When I Die, Take My Panties: Turning Your Darkest Moments into Your Greatest Gifts"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
When I Die, Take My Panties is a wake-up call about the personal transformation that comes from tragedy. Jennifer takes us through her journey of her mother (Jan Storti, PhD Education 1999) dying from ovarian cancer in 2011 and how she was able to discover the gifts in her own life by appreciating what was right in front of her.
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"In Russian Wonderland: An American's Odyssey in Soviet Russia"
Genre: Non-Fiction
A personal memoir of my experiences in the USSR serving as a Russian-speaking guide on a USIA exhibit in 1972.
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"If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping.
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"Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This book provides curriculum for middle school and high school physical education teachers. The material spans the content needed for a complete year's course. Fitness, major & minor units, and one day lesson plans are included.
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"Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare"
Genre: Non-Fiction
In this deeply personal story, Dezember shows how decisions on Wall Street and in Washington played out on his street in a corner of the Sunbelt that was convulsed by the foreclosure crisis.
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"How Success Became My Focus"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Have you ever felt so lost in life that you don't know where you are heading to? Do you ever feel like giving up after you've give your all? Does it seem like your best isn't just enough? Well, worry no more. Set aside you anxieties, be inspired, and reach greater heights with 'How Success Became My Focus.' With enthusiasm, Davis will stir your passion and divert your energies toward determination.
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"An Evolved, Professing Christian Man™"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Byron Demery invites us into his personal journey of faith, vulnerability and love. He details his shortcomings as a man, as he voyages through an uncertain wilderness period in his life. In testifying of God’s goodness, this book encourages Christian Men to lead with love and learn to enjoy everyday life while embracing the process of growth in the midst of life’s most trying circumstances.
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"Railroad Town: Kent and the Erie Railroad"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
The opening of the A&GW Railroad in 1863 transformed little Franklin Mills, Ohio, into Kent almost overnight. The Erie's impact on Kent was significant in several ways; at one time it employed over half the workers in the town. The 1875 depot was built to impress and later became the catalyst for Kent's recent downtown redevelopment.
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"The Culture Builders: One company’s journey to building a sense of belonging"
Genre: Non-Fiction
How does your organization promote culture builders: Facilitators, Executive Support, Cheerleaders, Questioners, and Committees? This work provides a case study on how culture programs built a sense of belonging and what those programs allowed and inspired the employees at one company to do.
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"David Was a Pirate"
Genre: Other
David is not sure he wants to start school, but when he meets his first teacher she immediately realizes that he's not a little boy at all! Why, he's a very brave pirate and that made all the difference. This is an engaging story with whimsical drawings that pays tribute to teachers everywhere.
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"Into the Air"
Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult
When a mysterious letter arrives, Mia Bryn is allowed to do something no one has done in over one hundred years — leave the ground and travel into the air. But Mia quickly learns that surviving in the outside world is more difficult and dangerous than she could have ever imagined.
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"Increasing Your Personal and Professional Effectiveness: A Manual for Women Who Want to Accomplish More Without Changing Who They Are"
Genre: Other
This is an accessible and practical guide that offers women a skill set that can empower them to control their behavior and master their destinies...
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"Flowers Are Better Than Bullets"
Genre: Historical Fiction
"Flowers Are Better Than Bullets" takes readers on an emotional journey during the Vietnam War era. Follow Johnny, a young man who escapes his abusive father by attending Kent State University. As anti-war protests escalate and tensions rise on campus, Johnny finds himself in the middle of a tragedy on May 4, 1970, that will change his life forever.
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"Cultivating Minds To Own Thyself"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Cultivating Minds To Own Thyself, encourages readers to define, identify and to accept thyself and to modify their thoughts, so that they can become their best self and make a difference in the lives of others.
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"The Incredible Shrinking Woman"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This slim memoir-in-essays explores themes of belonging and taking up space through the lens of being fat, Black and Midwestern.
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"Sweet Unrest"
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
A girl from Chicago moves to New Orleans where her dark dreams of the past start becoming a part of her waking life. Additional publications by Dunick: Unhooked
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"Pursuing John Brown: On the Trail of a Radical Abolitionist"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
It begins in Hudson, where John Brown grew up, and where the author now lives, and then moves across the country to sites both on and off the road in a ten-year pursuit of controversial John Brown and the difficult questions he raises. A mix of genres, including memoir, history, biography, and travel writing, her book was called “a thoughtful, elegantly written contribution to American studies” by Kirkus Reviews.
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"My Brother's Keeper"
Genre: Historical Fiction
The novel follows a clandestine attempt by Vatican officials to spirit 100 Jews from the clutches of the SS to the safety of neutral Sweden--while enlisting the help of elements within the German military. The story is set in 1943 against the backdrop of WWII Europe from Italy to Sweden, as well as many other wartime locales. Available online via Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Winged Hussar Pub.
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"Guide to Producing a Fashion Show, 3rd edition"
Genre: Non-Fiction
From a small informal affair to a large, complex event, this is a resource for anyone interesting in fashion shows. All aspects of planning and producing a fashion show are covered.
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"DEBBI: And Other Stories in the Helen of Mars Universe"
Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction
Helen Hunter’s father hopes to make his fortune by sending a robotic rover, controlled from Earth, to mine the surface of Mars for precious ores. But there’s a catch. To do it, he’ll have to assume financial responsibility for the rover. And on the harsh and desolate surface of Mars, one false move can mean the difference between untold riches and utter disaster. Additional publications by Ebey: Rover: Helen of Mars Book 1
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"Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother"
Genre: Non-Fiction
In this engaging and thoughtful personal memoir, Kathy Ewing shows what it’s like to be raised by someone variously sullen, pleasant, angry, demanding, manipulative, and engaging—sometimes changing from one mood to the next in a single conversation. She writes of her memories from her childhood, showing her mother’s troubling behavior — the behavior that mystified her until she found a name for it, until she could put it in the context of borderline personality disorder. The diagnosis, the wrestling with her history, and the very writing of that history have provided, if not healing, at least comfort and acceptance.
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"Covenant"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This book provides curriculum for middle school and high school physical education teachers. The material spans the content needed for a complete year's course. Fitness, major & minor units, and one day lesson plans are included.
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"FLUTTER! Wisdom For Living, Loving, Dying"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
FLUTTER! addresses the question, “What Happens When You Die?” A young man, Casey, engages insects from caterpillar, Monarchus IV, to Sir Charles, Mantis Clan crown prince. However, the greatest Insight comes from Idyllica, the spirit of a “dead” butterfly. Casey’s notebook also cites seers and masters from several traditions offering wisdom for creative living, deep loving and peaceful dying.
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"The Road Between Two Skies"
Genre: Fiction, Romance
A bizarre abduction shatters Brenniss' promising future, compounded by a memory loss. Now as Maggie, she recalls only pieces of who she was, while new friends support her as a survivor. Only by saying goodbye can she reconcile her past and present. Experience the journey on The Road Between Two Skies by Linda Fifer.
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"Three Months of Socialism: Living in USSR During the 1970s"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Diary of living and working in Dubna, small town north of Moscow at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in the 1970s.
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"High Heels and Hard Hats"
Genre: Fiction, Romance
In the tradition of Sex and the City and The Notebook, High Heels and Hard Hats is women’s fiction at its finest—a humorous and heartfelt coming-of-age story of a fellow KSU graduate that explores our career choices, romance, female friendships, and the choices that define us.
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"Peer interaction in university-level distance education: Reasons for interaction, communication methods used, and the perceived value of peer interaction in academic success"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Worldwide, the use of the Internet to deliver instruction has increased exponentially. Course management systems (CMS) are widely used to deliver courses completely at a distance. Implications and recommendations for higher education institutions include promoting best practices, providing functional policies and procedures centered on student learning, and providing faculty training and services to facilitate meaningful learning outcomes.
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"Where the Wind Wills"
Genre: Fiction, Romance
Dee soars with eagles as she treks in the Himalayas, dances with dust devils while living in a grass-roofed hut in Kenya, learns Maasai ways as she documents their ancient sacred ceremonies, crawls through stinging nettles in Rwanda to look into the eyes of mountain gorillas, and flirts with death on the Omo River in Ethiopia, all while navigating one of the toughest roads - love.
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"The Number Two Pencil Solution"
Genre: Fiction, Inpirational/Self Help
A high school language arts teacher battles the forces, including standardized testing, that he believes are destroying education. Self-published, the novel is print on demand and also available as an e-book.
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"Axioms on Leadership A Companion Guide for Developing Leaders"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Companion guide for learning to lead – challenges, tools to manage those challenges, and how to lead people.
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"The Burroughs Corporation, Detroit's Dynamic Dwarf"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This book is a case study and personal chronicle of an American information systems company. Burroughs survived over 100 years until a merger of 1986 to become Unisys.
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"Water Politics"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Water Politics analyzes the processes that determine how water issues get the attention of governments. It also examines how varied sources of power – economic, legal, and expert – determine its governance: how we allocate, use, and protect this irreplaceable resource. Finally, we chronicle the purposes that direct decisions over its cost, availability, and access. The book offers a wide-ranging analysis complete with sidebars– from Flint, Michigan to Mumbai, India; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Beijing.
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"Finding the Grain"
Genre: Fiction, Romance
Izzy Stark arrives in Colorado following her service in Afghanistan and the unexpected death of her husband in an IED blast. Haunted by their shared dreams, she negotiates between honoring him and feeling adrift. Facing secrets her husband never meant for her to know, she redefines herself as she is FINDING THE GRAIN in her life.
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"Kent State University Athletics: Images of Sports"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
This book offers a brief history of nearly 100 years of Kent State athletics, told through historical photographs and substantive captions. It includes 10 chapters, each providing a historical overview of that decade's highlights. Co-author: Theresa Walton.
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"Academic Tapestries: Fashioning Teachers and Researchers Out of Events and Experiences"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Teaching and research benefit from recognizing why we function as we do personally and professionally. This book is an account of the author's experiences, including his wife's partner in a successful, seven-year gender discrimination suit with the University and his role as a Senior Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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"1,001 Tips for Writers"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
This quotation book offers the best advice about writing and getting published today. The tips were culled from a wide variety of books, magazines, newspaper articles, trade journals, and speeches.
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"World Wrecker: An Annotated Bibliography of Edmond Hamilton"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
An annotated bibliography of the Ohio Science Fiction author Edmond (Moore) Hamilton.
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"Tears of a Hummingbird"
Genre: Fiction
Could You Fly with A Broken Wing? The dark tragedies from her childhood have followed Symone Baker-Michaels, a delicate yet strong Black woman, into her adult life. She finds it nearly impossible to obtain freedom as she remains locked down and struggles to break free from the shackles of abuse. Somehow, she seeks out a slither of hope and finds inner strength to fight for her life.
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"Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State?"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
An investigative account re-examining the different theories for May 4, based on over 200 new interviews, FBI reports, trial transcripts, and other archival material. This updated edition covers the controversy over what is actually on the May 4 tape.
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"Strategic Practice Management: Business and Procedural Considerations. 2nd Edition"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This text offers essential information for the operation and business management of practice settings, including independent practitioners, clinicians in audiology/ENT practices or hospitals, and managers of university-based clinics. It is an informative guide for any healthcare practitioner in today's competitive and dynamic healthcare marketplace.
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"THE BEST OF ALL THINGS GOLF: An Exploration of the Best Travel, Courses, Architects, Players, Books, Movies, & Hobbies"
Genre: Non-Fiction
A 'One Stop Shop' for golf lovers to explore the best about golf's major topics in one book. Jack Hammel has played and photographed over 250 of the greatest and/or most unique courses in Great Britain, Ireland, and the USA, and read more than 1,000 books on virtually every golf subject. Over 100 color photos and illustrations.
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"Hippies: A Kent State Love Story"
Genre: Historical Fiction
A love story set on the campus of Kent State University during the events leading up to the May 4, 1970 tragedy.
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"Best Day Ever"
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
William wants to have the BEST DAY EVER! But can a buttoned-up, Type-A kid let loose and embrace a day of free-range fun?
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"Kent State University Men’s Club & Varsity Soccer Media Guide & Record Book of 1949-80"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
A complete history of the Men’s Soccer program from its inception as a Club sport through its years of Varsity status. Includes rosters, schedules, game results, statistics, post-season honors, photos, and historical context of Men’s Intercollegiate Soccer in both the U.S. and Ohio. The book is 696 pages and available for free download online.
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"We Did What? Offensive and Inappropriate Behavior in American History"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
Offensive and Inappropriate Behaviors from past to present. Topics include: sexuality, politics, personal hygiene, mental illness, popular culture, entertainment, comedy, religion, drugs, crime, and bad habits.
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"The Business Zoo"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Written by a senior executive with both CFO and CEO experience in a wide range of organizations. The book uses fun and informative stories to illustrate important business and life concepts and lessons. It is aimed at both those entering the workforce and those moving up. Animals and other creatures are used to explain things along the way.
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"Mustang"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Biography on National Wrestling Hall of Fame coach Mike Milkovich (Kent State alumnus) and his influence on Ohio and American wrestling. This book includes pictures, interviews, stories, and historical content. Milkovich was the Patton of high school wrestling, as intense as the Great Santini and unable to settle for anything but victory.
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"Animal Crackers"
Genre: Fiction
Animal Crackers is a mix of art and poetry, written and illustrated to show what would happen if nature had the power to do to us what we are doing to it.
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"Loving What Doesn't Last: An Adoration of the Body"
Genre: Non-Fiction, Poetry
Through lyric essays and poetry, Christina Kukuk finds the spiritual in the most material bodily experiences: from a girl's tumble through adolescent food scarcity to a woman waiting for her lover on the transplant floor. Earthy and divine, funny at times, these pages invite readers into an adoration of the body.
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"Encounters: Twenty Years of Horror"
Genre: Horror
For the past two decades, writer and filmmaker David W. Keffer has been crafting horror short stories. Encounters is the first collection...
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"Cancer & Other Things I'm Grateful For: How Self-Advocacy and Integrative Medicine Led to Holistic Healing"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Follow Erika on her journey as she writes from the heart in real time about her diagnosis, treatment, and ultimate recovery from an advanced form of breast cancer. Alongside traditional oncology care, Erika’s natural curiosity and self-determination led her to explore the holistic therapies of integrative medicine. She demonstrates how to remain positive, even when facing an uncertain future.
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"Home Sweet Homes: How Bundt Cakes, Bubble Wrap, and My Accent Helped Me Survive Nine Moves"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Wit and wisdom from a lifetime of cross-country moves with colicky babies, sulky teens, dogs, frogs and goldfish. Moving might be the second most dreadful life event, but if you can find humor in it, you can survive it!
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"Poodle Mistress: An autobiographical story of life with nine toy poodles"
Genre: Non-Fiction
The story of my husband and me raising nine toy poodles during our first 27 years of marriage.
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"Yitzhak's Escape - The Jewish Flight to Uzbekistan"
Genre: Historical Fiction
June 21, 1941 – Adolph Hitler breaks the non-aggression pact with Joseph Stalin and orders the German Army to invade Soviet-controlled Eastern Poland with lightning speed...
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"Love Letters from the Marine Wolf: A US Hospital and Transport Ship, an Army Medic Afloat, and a War Bride in World War II"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
A captivating, evocative biography that shares the historical perspectives from those who fought in World War II.
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"Aurore's Journey"
Genre: Fiction
Aurore, a young Gabonese environmentalist and university student who is a member of the organization Forest-Source, leaves her home in Libreville for the beautiful Ogooué-Ivindo region...
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"Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help
“Just the Girls” is a celebration of women and what it means to be connected to the female whole.
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"Pediatric Nursing: The Critical Components of Nursing Care"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Pediatric Nursing Textbook for undergraduate students. Authored Chapter 9- School Age Children. A better way to learn pediatric nursing! This unique, multi-media presentation provides tightly focused pediatric coverage in a highly structured text.
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"Widow Maker"
Genre: Non-Fiction, Poetry
My husband's sudden cardiac arrest and heroic (and successful) efforts to save his life are chronicled in this poetry chapbook. From the 'Widow Maker' blockage of his left anterior descending artery (the first poem in the book) to his full recovery in the triumphant final poem 'Tap Dancing,' these poems take the reader on the frightening journey that defines SCA from a caregiver's perspective.
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"Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights"
Genre: Fiction, Poetry
Revelation responds to the fights of Mike Tyson in 100-word prose poems.
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"A Guy's Guide to Throat Cancer: Do's and Don'ts for Recovery"
Genre: Non-Fiction
His upbeat style encourages people to look at illness through a guy's eyes, not being a victim.
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"Chronic"
Genre: Non-Fiction
“Chronic” is the story of how a serious health scare in her late twenties caused Christine Rich to reevaluate and change her focus to wellness and self-love rather than illness and fear. Through raw and personal stories and insights, Rich shares her journey of living with and befriending her less-than-glamorous, oftentimes invisible, illness.
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"Food & Fitness After 50"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Food & Fitness After 50 is the opposite of a fad diet book. It counters the confusing clutter in the 'health help' arena by giving readers from age 50 forward simple, straightforward, common sense tools that put them on the path to a more active and healthy life.
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"Moments of Truth-A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
Ruffner not only reproduces a collection of nearly 150 of his photographs?many never published?but also offers a stirring narrative in which he revisits his work and attempts to further examine these events and adds his own experience of them. It is, indeed, an intensely personal journey that he invites us to share.
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"The Galloping Garbage Truck"
Genre: Fiction, Inpirational/Self Help, Poetry
This playful romp through childhood reflects on healthy lifestyle choices (“Kale Salad”)—challenges friendship expectations (“Could We Be Friends?”)—grapples with self-image (“The Girl with the Bow in Her Hair”)—and more. Early Childhood Educator Dr. Nancy Barbour says these poems have “something for young and old alike—for everyday life and aspirational dreams.”
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"I Saw My PA Today"
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
A young lady is having a wonderful day playing outside when she falls and hurts herself. She has to go to the urgent care for help. She is initially scared, but she soon finds out that she has nothing to fear.
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"I Want To Be Like Parker"
Genre: Fiction, Inpirational/Self Help, Young Adult
I am proud to have this special book. I juggle many genres but I'm especially happy this picture book will teach children something important. How to eat right. Plus, the illustrations are colorful and great to catch their attention. Make a child happy!
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"Cooper: a fish, a flower shop, a funeral home and a happy ending"
Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
Cooper, a sweet betta fish, accidentally ends up at a funeral home right alongside the flower arrangements.
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"Steam - Its Generation and Use - 42nd Edition"
Genre: Non-Fiction
First published in 1875 and now in its 42nd edition, 'Steam/its generation and use' is the longest continually published engineering textbook in the world. It has evolved to become a highly technical and comprehensive reference for advanced steam generation and emissions control technologies, steam fundamentals, and related subjects, and is relied upon by educators, students, engineers and other utility and industry professionals around the world.
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"The Pasta Family (Goes to Marinara Beach)"
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When The Pasta Family heads to Marinara Beach for a day of fun in the sun, you know that excitement is right around the corner! But when the family dog (Ziti) wanders off of his leash, the family goes in search of their favorite pet. Join The Pasta Family on their latest beach adventure, catch a wave at the annual surfing competition, and help find Ziti in a surprise ending!
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"Rings of Passage: A Time Travel Novel with Richard III"
Genre: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction
Modern-day woman Anise Wynford stumbles down her porch steps into a raging medieval battle. She finds her way to the king’s court in the final days of the Wars of the Roses and falls in love with Richard III. Knowing Richard will soon die in battle, Anise must choose whether to save his life and alter the course of history.
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Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
When The Pasta Family heads to Marinara Beach for a day of fun in the sun, you know that excitement is right around the corner! But when the family dog (Ziti) wanders off of his leash, the family goes in search of their favorite pet. Join The Pasta Family on their latest beach adventure, catch a wave at the annual surfing competition, and help find Ziti in a surprise ending!
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"Managerial Accounting, with Karen Braun, 4th edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2014"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This book is a managerial accounting textbook used at universities across the U.S. and Canada.
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"I’ll Never Forget"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
In her inaugural book, I’ll Never Forget, Dana Ullom-Vucelich, Kent State University graduate, shares her passion for intergenerational relationships. A child is born, a grandmother’s heart swells and a lasting promise begins. The repeating prose touching each page of the book is one that every young and old heart yearns to hear, 'I’ll love you always, just as you are.'
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"Mommy, What's on Your Computer?"
Genre: Other
This magical story follows a curious four-year-old with a HUGE imagination and her work-from-home mom as they explore the wonders of what’s really happening on that computer screen!
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"American Vistas – The Life and Art of John Van Alstine"
Genre: Non-Fiction
For nearly 50 years, John Van Alstine has created abstract sculptures forged with stone and steel. At their essence, they explore natural forces and man-made elements, conveying the American experience as the confluence/conflict between wilderness and industrialization.
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"Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
This book examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits, and the book emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigenous subjects and slavery in a global context. Published by Duke University Press, 2015.
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"Pickles & Preserves: A Savor the South Cookbook"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This book is part of a series of single-subject cookbooks from University of North Carolina Press. It contains 50 recipes for pickles and preserves and easy instructions on canning.
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"Closing Chapters: Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006"
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.
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"Fractured Legacy"
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Unraveling the hotel’s secrets won’t be easy but Kaylyn soon finds herself the target of a dark entity that has been trapped in the building for decades.
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"And Now You Know Too! The Story of How the Black Squirrel Came to Kent"
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It is a children's book that is historically and scientifically factual and for all readers to learn the true story of how the black squirrel came to Kent. On their bold adventure, Bucky, the black squirrel and his new friend Fletcher, search for the answer. Along the way, they find one person who knows the true story. Join them!
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Genre: Fiction, Young Adult
It is a children's book that is historically and scientifically factual and for all readers to learn the true story of how the black squirrel came to Kent. On their bold adventure, Bucky, the black squirrel and his new friend Fletcher, search for the answer. Along the way, they find one person who knows the true story. Join them!
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"I AM Powered"
Genre: Inpirational/Self Help, Non-Fiction
Biblical Counselor, Maryann Wohlwend walks alongside encouraging you through the valleys and edifying you toward the mountaintop. Journal.
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"Fundamentals of Nursing: Active learning for collaborative practice"
Genre: Non-Fiction
This first edition nursing textbook is designed for the 21st century student with active learning strategies throughout to help build critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills necessary for practice in our current fast-paced healthcare environment. In addition to the textbook, online ancillaries help students integrate theory and practice, and support the transformation of nursing students to professionals.
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"Just as Heavy: A Collection of Poetry"
Genre: Poetry
A collection of poetry following the diagnosis of chronic major depressive disorder, a death, a divorce and the ending of another significant relationship. This book is a personal journey of one woman struggling to find her way through a dark time. Join the author on her journey from the depths of depression into acceptance and the next phase of her life.
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"It Sucks to Be a Gimp: Pedaling to Freedom"
Genre: Non-Fiction
Pete’s story, in his own words, pulls you in from the start and keeps you riveted. As much as the cerebral palsy he is born with limits him physically, it only serves as a catalyst for daring to dream how to defeat it, both in his own life and on behalf of others affected by it.
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