Summary: Collects recipes for one hundred classics and old favorites, along with tips for customizing dishes, visual cues for tricky steps, and notes from the Test Kitchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ONESummary: "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXSummary: As an ally, you use your power-- no matter how big or small-- to support others. You learn, and try, and mess up, and try harder. In this collection of true stories, critically acclaimed YA authors get real about being an ally, needing an ally, and showing up for friends and strangers. From raw stories of racism and invisible disability to powerful moments of passing the mic, these authors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ALLSummary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMESummary: The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESSummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALSummary: Why buy beauty products and cleaning supplies when you can easily, quickly, and affordably make them at home with essential oils? DIY Aromatherapy is your ultimate step-by-step guide to creating simple yet powerful aromatherapy blends that can help restore health, beauty, and cleanse--all while keeping money in your pocket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 DIYSummary: A discussion between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and psychologist Paul Ekman on the differences between Eastern and Western views on human emotions and the connections that exist between science and spirituality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 EMOSummary: "A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FOUSummary: "An introduction to Sauropods, a group of dinosaurs that walked on four legs and that included the largest of all dinosaurs. Features include an original drawing of each dinosaur, fun facts, a glossary, and a list of additional resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.913 GIASummary: This volume is dedicated to amplifying and celebrating the stories of Black women and girls from around the world; features the work of over 60 Black female and non-binary authors, illustrators, and editors. Amongst the women featured from over 30 countries are tennis player Naomi Osaka, astronaut Jeanette Epps, author Toni Morrison, filmmaker Ava DuVernay; aviator Bessie Coleman, Empress Taytu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Anthology including over 50 works of poetry by 20th century writers on issues related to social justice in American society. Foreword by COMMON"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 BUSSummary: A glance at the life of the Holy Prophet of Islam: "This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world"--Goodreads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Green Gold 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.2 ISLSummary: "Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago's Black press-from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets-was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson's anti-racist time travel adventure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 IT'SSummary: How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is "very"! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, an educational robotics program, an award winning series of videogames, hundreds of books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Blackwell 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7 LEGContents: Animal basics -- Pets -- Farm animals -- Ocean animals -- Rain forest animals -- African animals -- Polar animals -- Australian animals -- Critters -- Birds -- Goofy animals -- Imaginary animals -- Animal picnic -- World of colors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.6 LETSummary: A guide for crafty kids and their parents mixes a family friendly design with a treasure trove of creative and educational projects that parents and their kids, aged three to twelve, can create together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potter Craft 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 MARSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTSummary: As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. Essays provide new insights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 NASSummary: "When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens! Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exhuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thrunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover majestic photography perfectly paired with contemporary (such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 NATSummary: Segmented into ten subjects, a collection of "poemstarts" provides amusing beginnings to a series of poems and challenges readers to complete the tale in their own special way, enhanced with large text and bold illustrations. When Jack Prelutksy posted the first couplet of a funny poem on a Web site and invited children to finish it, he expected about 100 responses. He got thousands. Now he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005