Simonson, Louise
Summary: In this graphic retelling of the Norse myth, Odin and his wife Frigg try to protect their beloved son Baldur, whose death will herald Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, but it is impossible to outwit prophecy, and the bitter Loki finds the one thing in the world that can kill Baldur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 SIMDahl, Michael
Summary: Loki has been punished for the death of Baldur, but Ragnarok has begun--the final battle between the Giants and the gods of Asgard in which the gods, and the old world will be destroyed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 DAHGaleano, Eduardo
Summary: "Galeano's new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned, a book of inspiration for those fighting tyranny, greed, and amnesia Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Galeano's new work has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that day of the calendar year. Each entry resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 902.02 GALMachado, Eduardo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 MACValdes, Alisa.
Summary: Author Alisa Valdes reveals how falling in love with a conservative cowboy forced her to rethink the feminist beliefs she's always held dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 VALSummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACMedeiros, Eduardo
Summary: Lenny and Beardo are two childhood friends with a lot of road behind them. When Beardo's deadbeat dad dies and leaves them his old bar, they make a go of it as business partners. Easy enough, right? Maybe not. Running a business in a low-traffic area of town isn't all it's cracked up to be, but luckily for the boys, the one-two punch of viral media attention when their neighbor gets crushed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MEDGaleano, Eduardo
Summary: "In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes usto ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 GALGaleano, Eduardo
Summary: "In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Upside Down, takes us on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car," with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave," Galeano surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362 GALPorter, Eduardo
Summary: "A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 PORVande Velde, Vivian.
Summary: Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 VANDValdez, Patricia
Summary: Looks at the inspiring story of Joan Procter, a pioneering female scientist who loved reptiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PROValdes, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ValdeValdes, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ValdeWagner, Eduard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1967
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.441 WAGLawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.415 LAWSummary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDVGaleano, Eduardo H.
Summary: The unofficial history of the world seen--and mirrored to us--through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten, over 5000 years of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 GALKayihura, Edouard
Summary: In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees do not endorse...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 KAYSala, Enric
Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SALCalder, Alexander
Summary: A well-known artist's sketches of animals are accompained by brief text explaining how to capture some of the elusive qualities of wildlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1972
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.2 CALCaldesi, Katie
Summary: The growing popularity of vegetable gardening and buying locally grown produce has sparked an increase in home food preservation, such as canning, freezing, and drying. Join Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi on their two year-long journey discovering different methods of conserving food, as they combine traditional tried-and-tested preserving techniques with a thoroughly modern perspective, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014