Smith, Les.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cowboy-Up Log Furniture 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.104 SMISmith, Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1993
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Summary: "...Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compassion & Choices 2022
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Summary: "In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne take us into the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges thatcome with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMISmith, Ralph Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.74 SMISmith, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picton Press 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 SmithSmith, Ben
Summary: "The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 SMIWebster, Rachel J.
Summary: "A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEBSterling, Eleanor J.
Summary: "A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world's biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. This book is the first comprehensive account of Vietnam's natural history in English. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.597 STEBarbassa, Juliana
Summary: Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes: from Carnaval's hedonistic delights, to the poverty of the favelas, to the softly seductive samba beat. But there's a dark side to this beautiful city: for years, Rio was ravaged by inflation, drug wars, and crooked leaders, and the legacy of decades of corruption can be seen in the very real struggles the city faces today. Now, Rio is ready to remake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981 BARShearer, Benjamin F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood Press 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 929.92 SHEContents: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Dorothy Hansine Andersen -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Virginia Apgar -- Aspasia -- Mary Ellen Avery -- Florence Merriam Bailey -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Rachel Littler Bodley -- Marie Anne Victoire Gallain Boivin -- Roberta Lynn Bondar -- Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton -- E. (Estella) Eleanor Carothers - Rachel Carson -- Mary Agnes Meara Chase -- Lin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.2 NOTShukert, Elfrieda Berthiaume.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1989
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Summary: Explains what mirages are, including why they happen, where they happen, and discusses other phenomena related to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Divided into six chapters that each cover a specific lighthouse, this meditative account includes general explanations about lighthouses, literary references, shipwrecks, and legends, but also sublime personal digressions about her visits, about collecting, about birds, or about the very light that shines from the lighthouse lanterns."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lines Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.1 BARWitkin, Lee D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Graphic Society 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770.75 WITSmyth, Denis
Summary: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SMYSmyth, Katharine
Summary: Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMYTH, KATHARINE SMYBarbas, Samantha
Summary: In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities’ carefully constructed images...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 050 BARFee, Jacqueline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 FEELeed, Percy
Summary: "David Beckham starred for great soccer teams in England, Spain, and the United States. Off the field, he's one of the biggest superstars in sports. Read about the life of a soccer celebrity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BECKlee, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9494 KLEBarbero, Alessandro
Summary: "Dante brings the legendary author--and the medieval Italy of his era-- to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022