Wenk, Elizabeth
Summary: "The John Muir Trail contains the information you need for hiking or backpacking the route. The comprehensive guide describes the entire passage, with detailed directions as well as UTM coordinates for important junctions, lateral trails, campsites, food-storage boxes, and other points of interest. The book divides the trail into 13 sections, and each section includes an elevation profile and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 JOHN MUIR TRAIL WENCheverton, Mark
Summary: Gameknight999 reenters Minecraft to find it completely changed. There are new monsters that he’s never seen before: giants and skeleton druids and pinch beetles and king spiders and mistwolves. Villages are larger than ever, and more heavily fortified; Minecraft had become much more dangerous. Even the very trees had changed, with some of them reaching up taller than the User-that-is-not-a-user...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION CHEGriffin, Joan, M
Summary: Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when they "adopt" a young hiker abandoned by her partner along the trail. The women experience the terror of lightning at eleven-thousand feet, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2023
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Summary: The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fight to bring lithium to the masses. The 1949 discovery of lithium as a cure for bipolar disorder is perhaps one of the most important breakthroughs of the modern era. Brown reveals two unlikely success stories: that of John Cade, the physician whose discovery would come to save an untold number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 BROLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WASSummary: Join tour guide Samantha Brown as she shows some of the exciting places, popular area landmarks, and exotic locales most tourists never see. Includes Bavaria, Germany, Vienna, Austria, St. Moritz, Switzerland, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.04 PASAndrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUISilbernagel, Robert
Summary: "The Cadotte family became involved in the fur trade during the French colonial period, and members of the family played key roles after the British takeover of the region and then during the American period. They worked with the North West Company, the American Fur Company, and other firms; they served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and in numerous conflicts involving Native...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US SilbernagelSummary: Corridors of blood: Set in the primitive hospitals of 19th century London, this recounts the story of the unfortunate Dr. Bolton, an early pioneer in anesthesiology, showing his gradual addiction to drugs and his dealings with grave robbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAUBreihan, Tom
Summary: A narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of twenty pivotal hits at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which began in 1958, reveals a remarkably fluid and connected story of music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 BRESummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILBarnes, Elly
Summary: ABC Pride introduces little readers to the alphabet through the colorful world of Pride. Children can discover letters and words while also learning more about the LGBTQIA+ community and how to be inclusive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BARHiggins, Tim
Summary: "Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the perfect car Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial con artist. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 HIGStevenson, Robin
Summary: "A rhyming alphabet book featuring a family who have lost their dog at a Pride parade."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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Summary: How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 ADBOsborne, Mary Pope.
Contents: Tonight on the Titanic -- Buffalo before breakfast -- Tigers at twilight -- Dingoes at dinnertime -- Civil War on Sunday -- Revolutionary War on Wednesday -- Twister on Tuesday -- Earthquake in the early morning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House Audio 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 786.2 HINSummary: Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAMSummary: Michael Rapaport goes on tour with A Tribe Called Quest in 2008, when they reunite to perform sold-out concerts across the country, almost ten years after the release of their last album, The Love Movement. Rapaport captures the story of their tenuous relationship as personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to threaten their creative cohesion. Get a behind- the scenes look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEAMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.8 MUISummary: Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays, and a few classics, by widely known and respected music writers, critics, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016