Hilborn, Elizabeth D.
Summary: "All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years rapidly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees and other insects. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 HILGoldin-Meadow, Susan
Summary: "Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GOLMoore, Russell
Summary: "Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism. American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 277.308 MOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 277.308 MOOWolf, Allan
Summary: Learn vital processes and procedures about gardening through different types of poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 WOLLunden, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: "A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUNDEN, JENNIFER LUNBoyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.)
Summary: "Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Mucha, Laura
Summary: "Find out what children eat all around the world in this beautifully illustrated book, written by bestselling poet and author Laura Mucha, alongside trained chef and food writer Ed Smith. From biltong to biryani, papaya to passionfruit, and ramen to roti, there are so many different dishes and delicacies all around the world. In this fascinating book, young children can learn all about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 641.5 MUCStevenson, Robin
Summary: "This nonfiction book for teens examines the ongoing fight for abortion rights and reproductive justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362 STEChayka, Kyle
Summary: "From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Sisson, Gretchen E.
Summary: "A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 SISSheldrake, Merlin
Summary: "Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the 'Wood Wide Web.' Fungi also drive many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.5 SHEAndrews, Becca
Summary: No Choice begins by discussing the ways in which life before Roe will be mirrored in life after: the wealthy and privileged will still have access, low-income people will suffer disproportionately, and pregnancy will be heavily policed. Then, Andrews looks at the states and communities that have been affected by the erosion of abortion rights in the U.S., and tells the stories of those who are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 ANDMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: Meet Mars! The red planet. Planet Marvelous. Favorite sibling of Earth (or so he claims). Sometimes they're close (just 34.5 million miles apart). Sometimes they need space (250 million miles apart)! Earth and Mars have a lot in common--clouds, mountains, polar icecaps. And while Earth has Earthlings, Mars makes a persuasive case for why people should make the journey to spend time with him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Forrester, Amy Seto
Summary: "A choose your own path style story that guides the reader through the very real job of being a teuthologist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 594.58 FORAndrews, Elizabeth
Summary: This book explores the story of Somali Americans. Readers will learn about the movement of Somali refugees to the United States. Entertaining text will show what life is like for Somali Americans and how they celebrate their culture. Features include a map, timeline, glossary, Making Connection questions and sidebars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pop! a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.004 ANDAndrews, Elizabeth
Summary: "This book explores the story of Brazilian Americans. Readers will learn about what prompted Brazilians to move to the US. Entertaining text will illustrate what life is like for Brazilian Americans families and how they celebrate their culture."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pop! a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.004 ANDMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: "A light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon and its history in relation to earth--told from the perspective of the moon itself!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Bauer, Marion Dane
Summary: "From planets and stars to constellations and meteor showers, readers will discover the amazing sights that can be seen in our night sky in this stellar Level 1 Ready-to-Read"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Andrews, Elizabeth
Summary: This book explores the story of Indian Americans. Readers will learn about why Indians wanted to move to the United States. Entertaining text will illustrate what life is like for Indian American families and how they celebrate their culture. Features include a map, timeline, glossary, Making Connection questions and sidebars. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pop!, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.004 ANDOlien, Darin
Summary: "Fatal conveniences are the toxic products we routinely use and the unhealthy things we do that our culture and corporations have made us believe are safe and necessary for living well and efficiently. These things--from deodorant, cosmetics, dental floss, and sunscreen to laundry detergent, air fresheners, carpets, and crayons to candles, tea bags, cell phones, and chewing gum--are ubiquitous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 OLIDavies, Nicola
Summary: "Take a lively look at the biology of plants on Earth and their vast importance to our planet, with this wide-ranging exploration from an award-winning team."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 580 DAVHumes, Edward
Summary: "What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change--all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Woodward, John
Summary: Text and illustrations look at different dinosaurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK/Penguin Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Edwards, Nicola
Summary: "Experience how different habitats, from the city to the ocean, come alive when the sun sets. Meet animals that make their own elaborate beds and others that sleep while swimming or flying. Explore the history of human sleep across the globe and dive into a world of dreams"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: 360 Degrees, an imprint of Little Tiger Group 2019