The Biggest Story | Search Results | East Hampton Public Library

129 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	Westbrook Juvenile Non Fiction	j220.95 DEY

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[2015]

Crossway

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2) All of the marvels: a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told

Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman. They were the happiest people on the planet. True, they were the only people on the planet, but they were still terrifically happy. Unfortunately, things didn't stay happy and wonderful for long. The Bible is full of exciting stories that fill children with awe and wonder. But kids need to know how all those classic stories connect to Scripture's overarching message about God's glorious plan to redeem...

Author:

Wolk, Douglas

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Pub. Date:

2021

Language:

English

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367 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction	741.5973 WOL
1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	741.5973 Wolk
1 of 1	Guilford Adult Non-Fiction	741.5 WOLK
1 of 1	Ivoryton Adult Nonfiction	741.5 WOL
1 of 1	Lyme Adult Nonfiction	741.5973 WOL
1 of 1	Madison/Scranton Adult Nonfiction	741.5973 WOLK
1 of 1	Meriden Adult Non-Fiction	741.5973 WO
1 of 1	New London Adult Non Fiction	741.5973 WOL
1 of 1	North Haven Adult Nonfiction	741.5973 Wolk, Douglas
1 of 1	Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction	741.5973 WOL
1 of 1	Orange/Case Adult Nonfiction Book	741.597 Wolk
1 of 1	Wallingford Adult Nonfiction	741.5973 WOLK
1 of 1	West Haven Main Adult Non-fiction	741.5973 WOLK

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2021

Penguin Press

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3) "S.S." Gigantic across the Atlantic: the story of the world's biggest ocean liner ever! and its disastrous maiden voyage, based on a true story (sort of)

"The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past 60 years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale. The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created:...

Author:

Selgin, Peter

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date:

1999

Language:

English

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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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1 of 1	Guilford Juvenile Picture Book	JJ TRANSPORTATION SELGIN
1 of 1	North Branford/Atwater Children's Picture Book	je Selgin
1 of 1	Orange/Case Juvenile Picture Book Fiction	jP Selgin

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1999

1st ed

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

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4) The biggest little boy: a Christmas story

Tells the tale of the S.S. Gigantic which began to sink on its maiden voyage after its rubber hull was punctured by a dreaded sea thumbtack.

Author:

Harlow, Poppy, 1982-

Publisher:

Viking Children's Books

Pub. Date:

2021

Lexile measure:

AD: Adult Directed 610L

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English

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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 x24 cm

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1 of 1	East Haddam/Rathbun J Holiday	HOL FIC HAR
1 of 1	Hamden/Miller Children's Holiday Books	E/HAR (CHRISTMAS)
1 of 1	Madison/Scranton Children's Picture Books	E (SEASONS & CELEBRATIONS) HARLOW
1 of 1	Wallingford Children's Holiday Books	E HARLOW

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2021

Viking Children's Books

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5) Operation Greylord: the true story of an untrained undercover agent and America's biggest corruption bust

Luca loves big things like big trucks and big buildings but when he sets out to bring home the biggest of all Christmas trees he instead finds a much smaller tree, perfect just as it is.

Author:

Hake, Terrence

Language:

English

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Book, Hoopla eAudiobook

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xvi, 279 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor	364.132/HAK
1 of 1	Wallingford Adult Nonfiction	364.1323 HAKE

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c2015

American Bar Association

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2015	Hoopla	Unabridged	Tantor Media, Inc	1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 15 min.)) : digital.	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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6) Blue's clues: Blue's biggest stories

Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments. And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, who worked undercover for nearly four years,...

Publisher:

Paramount Picutres

Pub. Date:

2006

Language:

English

DVD
Show Edition

1 videodisc (ca. 207 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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1 of 1	East Haddam/Moodus Downstairs Juvenile DVD	jDVD Blu
0 of 1	West Haven Main Children's Fiction DVD	J DVD BLU

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2006

Paramount Picutres

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7) Those who hold Bastogne: the true story of the soldiers and civilians who fought in the biggest battle of the bulge

From preparing for the first day of school to planning parties, performing in shows, and entering Blue's exciting new room, each episode goes back to a special day with Blue.

Author:

Schrijvers, Peter, 1963-

Language:

English

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Book, Hoopla eAudiobook

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310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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1 of 1	Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor	940.542/SCH

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[2014]

Yale University Press

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2015	Hoopla	Unabridged	Tantor Media, Inc	1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 11 min.)) : digital.	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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8) The Biggest Hole in the Iron Curtain: The Batizy Story

Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded and almost certainly would have were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious American defenders, who held back a tenfold larger German force while awaiting the arrival of General George Patton's mighty Third Army.In this dramatic account of the 1944

Author:

Levente, Batizy

Publisher:

Outskirts Press

Pub. Date:

2019

Language:

English

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Online Hoopla Collection

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2019	Hoopla	Outskirts Press	1 online resource (167 pages)	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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9) Story of Akbar and Birbal: The Biggest Thing

The Batizy family was Eastern European nobility during the thirteenth to twentieth centuries and continued to lead comfortable lives even as the importance of aristocracy faded. Then, the unimaginable happened. These centuries of happy, committed citizenship would all seemingly fade away in an instant as communism took over. Driven from their home after the 1956 Hungarian revolution against communist rule failed, the Batizys found themselves starting...

Author:

Kumar, Ajay

Publisher:

Findaway Voices

Pub. Date:

2023

Language:

English

Online Hoopla Collection

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2023	Hoopla	Unabridged	Findaway Voices	1 online resource (1 audio file (6 min.)) : digital.	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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10) Crash landing: the inside story of how the world's biggest companies survived an economy on the brink

Once upon a time, Birbal was not present in the court. Taking advantage of this, some ministers started whispering to king Akbar against Birbal. One of them started saying, "king! You give every responsibility only to Birbal and his advice is taken in every work. It means that you consider us unworthy. But, it is not so, we are also as capable as Birbal."

Author:

Hoffman, Liz (Wall Street Journal reporter)

Publisher:

Crown

Pub. Date:

[2023]

Language:

English

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xxi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

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1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	330.973 Hoffman
1 of 1	North Haven Adult Nonfiction	330.973 Hoffman, Liz

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[2023]

First edition

Crown

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11) The infiltrator: the true story of one man against the biggest drug cartel in history

"A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy's winners and losers-from a leading Wall Street Journal reporter. The world's most powerful CEOs never saw it coming. In 2018, after a decade-long bull market, the CEO of American Airlines declared, "I don't think we're ever going to lose money again." The U.S. entered March 2020 riding an eleven-year economic high, with...

Author:

Mazur, Robert

Publisher:

Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company

Pub. Date:

2016

Language:

English

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Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company

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1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	364.1336 Mazur

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2016

First Back Bay paperback edition

xiii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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12) The Obama story: the boy with the biggest dream

Describes the author's exploits as an undercover agent infiltrating the illegal drug cartels of Columbia, detailing how he helped bring down criminal bankers and drug lords.

Author:

Lee, T. S. (Thaddeus Shuptrine), 1948-

Publisher:

Dasan Books/Joyful Stories Press

Pub. Date:

c2009

Language:

English

Graphic Novel
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Dasan Books/Joyful Stories Press

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1 of 1	Woodbridge Juv. Biography	GRAPHIC JB OBAMA

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Publisher

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c2009

201 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

13) Solar story: how one community lives alongside the world's biggest solar plant

Author:

Drummond, Allan

Publisher:

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date:

2020

Lexile measure:

AD: Adult Directed 820L

Language:

English

Book
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

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1 of 1	Lyme Juvenile Nonfiction	EASY 621.312 DRU
1 of 1	Meriden Children's Non-Fiction	J 621.31 DR
1 of 1	Woodbridge Juv. NF 600-699	J621.31/DRU

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2020

First edition

Farrar Straus Giroux

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14) A Jacket off the Gorge: True Story of the Biggest Liar

"A nonfiction picture book about the largest solar power plant in the world"--

Author:

Ashline, Susan

Publisher:

Tantor Media, Inc

Pub. Date:

2024

Language:

English

Online Hoopla Collection

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15) Heist: The True Story of Lightning Lee Murray and the World's Biggest Cash Robbery

A must-listen real-life psychological thriller Jon Fontaine's teenage years are shaped by his motivation to run a lucrative drug-selling enterprise. Despite the many tricks up his sleeve, the law catches up with him time after time. To escape a lengthy prison sentence, Jon bails out of jail and fakes his own death. He throws his jacket off a gorge, the pinnacle of a meticulously staged suicide. Police find the jacket and declare him dead, only to...

Author:

Sounes, Howard

Publisher:

Open Road Media

Pub. Date:

2023

Language:

English

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Show Edition

Online Hoopla Collection

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2023	Hoopla	Open Road Media	1 online resource (476 pages)	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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16) TV's biggest hits: the story of television themes from "Dragnet" to "Friends"

A detail-driven account of how a small-time gang pulled off the daring 2006 Securitas depot robbery, from the bestselling true crime author of Fred & Rose. A counting house for the Bank of England, the cash depot in Tonbridge was located within a triangle of three twenty-four-hour police stations, one only three hundred yards away. But it was also close to the sports center where local MMA fighters Lea Rusha and Jetmir Bucpapa sometimes trained....

Author:

Burlingame, Jon

Publisher:

Schirmer Books

Pub. Date:

c1996

Language:

English

Book
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xi, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	781.546 BURLINGAME

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Publisher

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c1996

Schirmer Books

17) Thomas Jefferson and the mammoth hunt: the true story of the quest for America's biggest bones

Author:

Clickard, Carrie (Carrie L.)

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date:

[2019]

Lexile measure:

610L

Language:

English

Book
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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1 of 1	Guilford Juvenile Picture Book	JJ PEOPLE & PLACES CLICKARD

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Edition

Publisher

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[2019]

First edition

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

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18) alibaba: The Inside Story Behind Jack Ma and the Creation of the World's Biggest Online Marketplace

"This rhyming non-fiction picture book tells about Thomas Jefferson's quest to find a woolly mammoth to disprove French Count Buffon's assertion that the animals of the New World are weak"--

Author:

Avery, Martha

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date:

2009

Language:

English

Hoopla eBook
Show Edition

Online Hoopla Collection

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2009	Hoopla	HarperCollins Publishers	1 online resource (240 pages)	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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19) The lost bank: the story of Washington Mutual--the biggest bank failure in American history

The first in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar company Alibaba.com-known to many as "China's eBay"-and the inspirational story behind the man who created it. A bestseller in China and now translated into English and updated with recent events, Alibaba by Liu Shiying and Martha Avery tells the remarkable story behind the Internet phenomenon Alibaba.com and its founder Jack Ma, a man Barron's named one of the World's Top 30 CEOs in 2008. Ma's rise...

Author:

Grind, Kirsten

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date:

c2012

Language:

English

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1 of 1	New London Adult Non Fiction	332.32 GRI
1 of 1	Wallingford Adult Nonfiction	332.3209 GRIND

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Publisher

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c2012

Simon & Schuster

viii, 389 p. ; 24 cm.

20) Solar Story: How One Community Lives Alongside the World's Biggest Solar Plant. Green Power

Author:

Drummond, Allan

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Pub. Date:

2020

Language:

English

Hoopla eBook
Show Edition

Online Hoopla Collection

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2020	Hoopla	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)	1 online resource (40 pages)	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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