Fisher, Lalena
Summary: "Ana and Harwin's friendship has been off the charts since day one! But when Harwin learns her family is going to move far away, the duo isn't sure how their friendship can survive the move. See how their friend-o-meters calibrate in this imaginative, heartwarming story by beloved picture book creator and infographic designer Lalena Fisher. An ideal read-aloud for classrooms, libraries, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FISPoitier, Sidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 791.4302 POIVincent, James
Summary: "A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day. From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its hidden world, taking readers from ancient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.8 VINTaub, Jennifer
Summary: "There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 TAUMerchant, Nilofer
Summary: In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that, in fact, we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to "make a dent" on the world. Now that the Internet has liberated ideas to spread through networks instead of hierarchies, power is no longer determined by your status, but by "onlyness"--that spot in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 MERArnold, Jennifer
Summary: Arnold has always approached the education of dogs with kindness and compassion. And she'd always understood dogs to be uniquely, uncannily attuned to their human companions. She knew that the bond that developed between a person and their service dog was the single greatest predictor of that partnership's success and, conversely, failure to bond brought about anxiety and distress in dogs. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 ARNCampbell, W. Joseph.
Summary: Did the Washington Post bring down Richard Nixon by reporting on the Watergate scandal? Did a cryptic remark by Walter Cronkite effectively end the Vietnam War? Did William Randolph Hearst vow to "finish the war" in the 1898 conflict with Spain? In Getting It Wrong, W. Joseph Campbell addresses and dismantles such prominent media-driven myths--stories about or by the news media that are widely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071.3 CAMTorres, J.
Summary: Bored beyond measure during a visit to his grammy's house in the country, Rufus follows a girl into the woods, where inside a hollowed-out tree he discovers a totem bearing an etching that reads, "Sasquatch."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TOREmezi, Akwaeke
Summary: "Collection of poems by Akwaeke Emezi"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 EMEGay, Roxane.
Summary: A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GAYWinchester, Simon
Summary: "The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future." -- Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 WINWalsh, Peter
Summary: "Lighten Up" offers a road map to creating a less-is-more life, and teaches readers how a life of less can actually be a life of great abundance. Features three audits designed to instigate life changes: a financial audit combined with assessments of the physical junk filling your homes and the emotional junk causing tension in your life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 WALEdwards, Megan
Summary: "Ted Spencer has a hard enough time believing the celebrated violin really exists. To find it sitting on his coffee table is nothing short of incredible. The stuff of legend, the exquisite Guarnerius has been missing for centuries. But even though the renowned instrument is a violin lover's dream come true, it holds only heartache for Ted. The value of the Merino Rose may be beyond measure, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imbrifex Books, Flattop Productions, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWSummary: "The Christmas not-wish (Shelley Shepard Gray)..."When the foster parents they've cautiously grown to love discover they're expecting, orphaned Roy and Jemima Fisher, ages six and seven, are secretly devastated by the certainty they'll be given up. With Christmas around the corner, their only wish is for new foster parents as nice as Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz. Meanwhile, the Kurtzes have wishes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAKing, Crystal
Summary: "Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINRollins, James.
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a stirring story of a soldier and his military war dog who are drawn into a dark mystery tracing back to World War II and a lost treasure tied to the bones of the dead. Off the blustery streets in the medieval heart of Budapest, Captain Tucker Wayne and his war dog, Kane, rescue a mysterious woman fleeing three armed men. The secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Finch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man , a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINSummary: The Bosch BLAZE GLM 20 laser measure is an easier, faster and more accurate way to measure. It delivers laser precision technology and real-time measurement mode, taking instant and reliable measurements up to 65 Ft., so one person can size up the job in seconds. Square and compact by design, the BLAZE GLM 20 laser measure is ready for anywhere portability. It has a backlit display for easy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DeWalt 2021
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1 available in Sight and Sound Equipment, Call number: Laser measureSummary: This English speaking measuring device for those with low vision will come in handy for those who love to work with their hands, but find the tiny lines on a measuring device difficult or impossible to read. This talking measuring tape measures lengths up to 16 feet or five meters. This talking measuring tape also has the capacity to remember measurements, maximum in memory: 999 meters....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cobolt
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1 available in Sight and Sound Equipment, Call number: Talking tape measureAtkins, P. W. (Peter William)
Summary: The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics? Peter Atkins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 ATKRekulak, Jason
Summary: Billy Marvin's first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky. Do you remember your first love? The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine...The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune . For three teenage boys--Billy, Alf, and Clark--who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017