Lourie, Peter
Summary: A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NANLourie, Bruce.
Summary: There are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, including hormone-disrupting phthalates and air pollutants. Smith and Lourie prove how easily our bodies absorb these chemicals from the foods we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we smear on our skin-- day after day. Then they give us the good news about what is in our control and the steps we can take for reducing our toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LOUAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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Summary: Provides hints, tips, suggestions, and advice on simple, stylish, and inexpensive ideas for creating a comfortable home environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002
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Summary: What's the most fun way to add new creative touches to your living space? As followers of Laure Farion's brand PapierPapierPapier know, the answer is paper! Here are 15 stylish, joyful paper projects to decorate every room in the house. Take advantage of paper's inexpensive charms and Laure's lighthearted designs to make your spaces more stylish, more creative, and more colorful. With this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.982 FARBosselaar, Laure-anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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Summary: This book is a companion to the Craft in America PBS television series and to the traveling museum exhibition of the same name. This book will show that craft has never been just about pretty things. It has always been about our things, our inheritance, our personal collections. It is about functionality, about identity, about conceptual thinking, about fun and experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOA Editions 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ausable Press 2007
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Summary: Presents fourteen essays on classic and contemporary children's literature, exploring the lives of notable authors and contending that the best writers for children hold on to some essence of childhood even as adults.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 LURLurie, Alison.
Summary: Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 LURWard, Lauri.
Summary: Outlines strategies for successfully transitioning from larger into smaller spaces, offering advice on how to organize and decorate a downsized home with coverage of such topics as storage, decluttering, and rendering a room multi-functional.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.5 WARLawrie, Portia
Summary: "Transform pre-loved clothes and forgotten fabrics into stylish new garments. Let the founder of The Refashioners movement and sewing designer Portia Lawrie show you how to created sustainable fashion that doesn't cost the planet. Beginning with advice on how to source and 'harvest' existing clothes, Portia then makes 11 inspirational garments - from tees and shirts to shorts and a coat - all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Search Press Limited 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1990
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Summary: "'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: Step-by-step illustrated handbook on how to stuff and preserve birds, fish, and furred animals
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hart Pub. Co. 1972