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Penguin classicsAshcroft, Frances M.
Summary: Looks at the role of electricity in the human body, covering the colorful history of how scientists discovered this role, the current state of knowledge of electrophysiology, and how new discoveries are driving advances in medicine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.014 ASHDuncan, Dayton
Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.64 DUNTrabucco Zeran, Alia
Summary: "When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zeraan offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 TRAPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POEMillard, Candice
Summary: For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. Expeditions to find it were stymied by a giant labyrinthine swamp. In the 19th century Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. From the start the two men clashed. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy The Nile River is the longest in the world. Its fertile floodplain allowed for rise to the great civilization of ancient Egypt, but for millennia the location of its headwaters was shrouded in mystery....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.2043 MILIgnatieff, Michael
Summary: "When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 IGNPoe, Edgar Allan
Contents: Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- A dream within a dream -- Stanzas : in youth have I known -- A dream -- The happiest day-- the happiest hour -- The lake-- to-- -- Sonnet-- to science -- To-- : the Bowers wherat, in dreams I see -- Fairy-land -- Introduction -- Alone -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- The valley of unrest -- Lenore -- To one in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.309 POESummary: Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 SHISharfstein, Daniel J.
Summary: "Chronicles the epic clash between General Oliver Otis Howard, who took on a mission in the Pacific Northwest to force Native Americans onto reservations, and the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, who refused to leave his ancestral land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 SHABak, Richard
Summary: "The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 BAKMillard, Candice
Summary: "At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 968.04 MILGifford, Bill
Summary: "From acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science in search of answers to a universal obsession: what can be done about getting old? SPRING CHICKEN: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) SPRING CHICKEN is a full-throttle, high-energy ride through the latest research, popular mythology, and ancient wisdom on mankind's oldest obsession: How can we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.2 GIFPreston, Douglas J
Summary: Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.85 PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 972.8 PREJenkins, Philip
Summary: Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy as we know it would never have come into existence and that today's church could be teaching some-thing very different about Jesus. It is only an accident of history that one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.2 JENCahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.832 CAHNatterson-Horowitz, Barbara.
Summary: Draws on a wide range of disciplines to explore the parallels between humans and animals and what nature can teach about the human mind and body, sharing case studies about animal and human commonalities to explain new developments in health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 HORImpey, Chris
Summary: An astronomer answers questions on the cutting edge of astrophysics to explore the science of black holes and their role in theoretical physics, from Einstein's equations of general relativity to testing string theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.8 IMPFerrer, Gustavo
Summary: "When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Yet it's a situation millions of us face every year with virtually no sort of preparation or guidance. With Graceful Exit, Dr. Gustavo Ferrer offers an all-in-one resource for anyone tasked with managing the end-of-life care of a loved one" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 FERVarious authors
Contents: The beaast in the jungle / Henry James. -- Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw. -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad. -- Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov. -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. -- Swann in love (from Remembrance of things past) / Marcel Proust. -- A lost lady / Willa Cather. -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann. -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitSinger, Michael A.
Summary: Presents advice on ways to free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 SINSimpson, Cam
Summary: A heart-rending narrative that moves from the Himalayas to the Middle East to Houston and culminates in an epic court battle, this is a story of death and life - of the war in Iraq, the killings of the twelve Nepalese, a journalist determined to uncover the truth, and a trio of human rights lawyers dedicated to finding justice. At its heart is one unforgettable young woman, Kamala Magar, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGAR, KAMALA SIMCowan, Thomas
Summary: "Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad--bright, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism--when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price--two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2016