Lee, Laura
Summary: "In the vein of The Collected Schizophrenias, a genre-bending debut memoir in essays by Laura Lee, exploring a range of topics from caregiving for a parent with early-onset Alzheimer's to stumbling toward intimacy, identity, and sexuality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2021
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Summary: Find out what makes us human by learning where we came from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 823 Anthropology 2017Metzl, Jamie Frederic
Summary: From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives -- sex, war, love, and death.At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 METYoungs, Bettie B.
Summary: Everyone has heard of Habitat for Humanity, the faith-based housing initiative that has built homes for more than a million of the world's poor. Many are familiar with its founders, Millard and Linda Fuller. But few know the amazing love story behind the movement a story that began accidentally and will conclude in a world forever changed by its impact. By age 29, Millard Fuller was a self-made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Burres Books, a division of Bettie Youngs Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.5 YOUAdler, Kevin F.
Summary: "Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or did you avert your gaze? When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose--in ourselves and as a society--when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 ADLDorra, Henri
Contents: Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 DORGalat, Joan Marie
Summary: "Book introduces the reader to stars"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 GALJohnstone, Michael.
Summary: Text and cut-away illustrations present facts and miscellaneous information about the automobile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 629.2 JOHKukla, Lauren
Summary: Climb Aboard! Explore planets and how they are formed! Meet key astronomers! Examine the history of mapping the stars! Investigate red giants, black and white dwarfs, neutron stars, supernovas, and black holes! See an infographicshowing our solar system's statistics! Did You Know? facts and a Guidebook of the brightest stars complete your journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523 KUKSchiller, Amy
Summary: A journalist, academic and consultant evaluates the history of philanthropy, from the ideas of St. Augustine to the work of Lebron James, arguing that philanthropy can no longer be premised around basic survival and that public institutions must assume that burden so that philanthropy can support human flourishing as originally intended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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Summary: "National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin tells the story of the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the first official all-female air race in the U.S."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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Summary: This book shows K-5 educators how to bring coding into their curriculum by embedding computational thinking skills into activities for every content area, helping students prepare for coding in the middle grades as they build their knowledge. It features classroom-tested lessons and activities designed for skills progression, ready-to-implement coding exercises, and case studies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Society for Technology in Education 2017
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Summary: Discusses the stars, their composition, and characteristics, with actual photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 SIMVogt, Gregory.
Summary: Explores how stars form and create energy, including descriptions of black holes, constellations, and the movement of stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 523.8 VOGSwift, Earl
Summary: "In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle-were the pinnacle of human exploration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 SWIHansen, James E. (James Edward)
Summary: A leading scientist on climate issues offers his views on the growing threat of human-caused climate change and looks at why the proposed solutions are not sufficient to stop a global meltdown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009
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Summary: "Scammers adopt fake identities and use them to defraud people using texts, emails, social media sites, ecommerce sites, dating apps, and banking apps. Scammers can operate from almost anywhere in the world and in most cases victims have little chance of getting their money back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 KALHorwitz, Tony
Summary: "The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders.More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.504 HORBarner, Bob.
Summary: Simple rhyming text describes stars and the planets of our solar system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2002
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Summary: Animal signs are everywhere in nature and this guide will help kids learn all about them. Kids will find out how to spot and identify common clues that 17 wildlife species leave behind in the woods, in fields and along ponds. This guide is a fun way to turn everyday walks into exciting mysteries and make any child a nature detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 596 DENBird, Caroline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D. McKay Co. 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.916 BIRCrane, Cody
Summary: "Learn all about race cars, from how they are designed and built to which exciting new kinds of cars you might see in the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2 CRAStandage, Tom.
Summary: Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has helped to shape societies around the world, from the emergence of farming in China by 7,500 BCE to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009