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2015., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: BIOG 796 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Endzone tells the story of how college football's most successful, richest, and respected program lost all three in less than a decade -- and entirely of it's own doing. It is a story of hubris, greed, and betrayal - a tale more suited for Wall street than the world's top public university. .
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[2017]., Adult, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HIST 971.6 22503 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Click here to view Summary Note: "After steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, laden with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT and other explosives, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc fought its way up the Atlantic coast, through waters prowled by enemy U-boats. As it approached the lively port city of Halifax, Mont-Blanc's deadly cargo erupted with the force of 2.9 kilotons of TNT -- the most powerful explosion ever visited on a human population, save for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mont-Blanc was vaporized in one fifteenth of a second; a shockwave leveled the surrounding city. Next came a thirty-five-foot tsunami. Most astounding of all, however, were the incredible tales of survival and heroism that soon emerged from the rubble. This is the unforgettable story told in John U. Bacon's The Great Halifax Explosion: a ticktock account of fateful decisions that led to doom, the human faces of the blast's 11,000 casualties, and the equally moving individual stories of those who lived and selflessly threw themselves into urgent rescue work that saved thousands. The shocking scale of the disaster stunned the world, dominating global headlines even amid the calamity of the First World War. Hours after the blast, Boston sent trains and ships filled with doctors, medicine, and money. The explosion would revolutionize pediatric medicine; transform U.S.-Canadian relations; and provide physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who studied the Halifax explosion closely when developing the atomic bomb, with history's only real-world case study demonstrating the lethal power of a weapon of mass destruction."--Jacket.
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1986., Ages 4-8, Gulliver/HBJ Call No: J BIO 976.4 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.