Aslan, Reza
Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BASKERVILLE, HOWARD ASLAmeri, Anan
Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017
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Contents: Hemisphere.--Santa Lucia.--Etoile Astre.--Let go ego.--Hiver.--Selva.--La joueuse de tambour.--Soeur violence.--Echo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: sn 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ULACarter, Arlan.
Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CARShipton, Alyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 STAAslan, Reza.
Summary: Presents the origins and history of Islam, with emphasis on its relation to other religions and the impact that terrorism is having on the current perception of Islam throughout the non-Islamic world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: Explores humanity's attempts to comprehend the divine by giving it human traits and emotions, and calls for a more expansive understanding of God to develop a more universal spirituality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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Summary: Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAConfino, Alon
Summary: "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 CONChernila, Alana.
Summary: Written as much for the reader as the cook, The Homemade Kitchen covers a globe’s worth of flavors and includes new staples (what Alana is known for) such as chèvre, tofu, kefir, kimchi, preserved lemons, along with recipes and ideas for using them. Here, too, are dishes you’ll be inspired to try and that you will make again and again until they become your own family recipes, such as Broccoli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 CHESalomon, Shay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2006
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Summary: Dr. Waller "shares wisdom from his ministry, extreme adventures, and longtime marital arts experience to inspire and offer moral guidance to navigate the complex challenges today's men face in daily life". -- inside jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2019
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Summary: It's no secret that time spent in nature is good for us. Nature helps us thrive: it improves our health and well-being and can decrease our stress. But if you don't have the luxury of a forest at your doorstep, bringing the outside in can provide an immediate connection to the natural world and the many benefits that come with it. From the founders of the botanical emporium Ivy Muse and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1995
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Summary: The Discovery of the Past explores the ways in which humankind, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, became conscious of its past. Contrary to popular belief, archaeology was not an invention of the Renaissance. It was a discipline known to the scribes of ancient Assyria, Egypt, and China, and a subject of debate for the Sophists of Ionia before it was put into practice by Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 SCHPalermo, Tonya M.
Summary: "Madeline is a 15-year-old girl with abdominal pain and headaches that occur most days of the week. Because of her pain, she has missed 99 days of school this year and is no longer able to play volleyball. Her parents have taken her to see a number of specialists and she has tried many different medications but she has not experienced any improvement in her pain..." Chronic pain is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Learn how to draw your very own superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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Summary: "On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 DOBLazzarin, Paolo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2004
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Summary: Examines the issues surrounding teenage pregnancy, including breaking the news to parents, dealing with judgments and criticism, co-parenting, and finishing school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2016