Leser, David
Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LESMcDonough, Yona Zeldis
Summary: "More than 2,000 years ago, travelers wrote about the incredible sights they saw while on their journeys. They told tales of hanging gardens that were built for a Babylonian queen, and a colossal statue that guided ships through the harbor of Rhodes in Greece. These writers compiled a list of the very best of these sights that are now known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Author Yona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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Summary: Young's novel, The Shack, has been embraced by Christians worldwide. Kruger explores this story of a man lifted from the depths of despair through his life-altering encounter with God, and guides readers into a deeper understanding of the core message of the novel: God is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 KRUNoyes, Martha.
Summary: "Then There Were None, by award-winning Honolulu writer and artist Martha H. Noyes, is a personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population. Drawing from a variety of sources, Noyes chronicles the effects, from the arrival of Capt. Cook to the present, of disease, written language, the missionaries, landownership, the overthrow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bess Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 NOYStrauss, Gwen
Summary: "The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 STRSmil, Vaclav
Summary: "An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMIGraff, Garrett M.
Summary: This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 999 GRAStolzenburg, William.
Summary: A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.16 STOAtwood, Kathryn J.
Summary: Readers are introduced to courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the conflict in Vietnam. These women served in dangerous roles as medics, journalists, resisters, and revolutionaries. Through their varied experiences and perspectives, young readers gain insight into the many facets of this tragic and complex conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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Summary: Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they'd uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras--or "turnings"--that always arrive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4973 HOWRadinger, Elli H.
Summary: Love your family, care for your those around you, never give up and always find time to have fun -- these are the golden rules of wolves. These remarkably intelligent animals take empathetic care of their old and injured, bring up their young lovingly and are able to forget everything when playing. They think, dream, make plans, communicate intelligently with one another -- and behave more like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Joseph 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 RADStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 STEBond, Michael Shaw
Summary: "How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken forgranted, but it's also critical to our species's evolutionary success. In From Here to There Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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Contents: Not from Guildford after all -- Finishing school -- St. John's, smokers, networks and friends -- The seedy flats -- The origin of the species -- Making it -- Hearing the music -- Whooshing by -- Hippodust, films and the Telly Saga -- On love -- More books, money and a sense of place -- Last chance to see -- The digital village -- Turtles all the way down -- Twenty-five years on -- Chronology of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, DOUGLAS WEBKurlansky, Mark
Summary: As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions." Historically, she's been right-and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6525 KURSaujani, Reshma
Summary: A leading activist takes apart the myth of "having it all" and lifts the burden on individual women to be primary caregivers, offering a bold vision for change as America defines the future of work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022
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Summary: "Is our gender something we're born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today's society. Both scientific and objective, and drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult SohMortlock, Michele
Summary: "Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that instantly conjure up a unique era--the Roaring Twenties. It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild, exciting decade. It began on the heels of one tragedy--the flu pandemic of 1918--and ended with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: "A new collection of poems from the author of allegiance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: "The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.15 PADPascal, Janet B.
Summary: "The Tower of London holds almost a thousand years' worth of secrets! The Tower of London draws more than 2 million visitors a year! Almost 1,000 years old and first built by William the Conqueror in 1066, the tower has been a fortress, a palace, a zoo, and an exhibit site for the amazing Crown Jewels. But the tower's reputation as a prison is probably what accounts for its popularity! Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942.1 PASPferdehirt, Julia
Contents: Magdelaine la Framboise, 1780-1846 -- Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883 -- Laura Smith Haviland, 1808-1898 -- Julia Wheelock Freeman, 1833-1900 -- Sara Emma Edmonds, 1841-1898 -- Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919 -- Rebecca Shelley, 1887-1984 -- Ana Clemenc, 1888-1956 -- Marguerite Lofft de Angeli, 1889-1987 -- Gwen Frostic, 1906-2001 -- Rosa Parks, 1913-2005 -- Nancy Harkness Love, 1914-1977.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2007
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History PferdehirtJahren, Hope
Summary: "Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.738 JAHGibson, Karen Bush.
Summary: When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance--cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982--followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later. By breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 2014