Shanklin, Mary C.
Summary: The story of Mar-A-Largo starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. How did Palm Beach's most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Shanklin reveals the disputes, politics, and lifestyles of a power couple's dream oasis through its history and to the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.9 SHAKotkin, Joel.
Summary: Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 KOTKhalidi, Rashid
Summary: A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HONWard, Lynd
Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARHaygood, Wil
Summary: "The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W.Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HAYGee, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Earth GeeGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MARGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARSzpiro, George
Contents: Fit for a king -- What flies know and ants don't -- The forensic engineer -- An Oscar for the best script -- Geometry without Euclid -- From Copenhagen and Hamburg to Black Mountain, North Carolina -- What the conjecture is really all about -- Dead ends and a mysterious disease -- Voyage to higher dimensions -- Inquisition, West Coast style -- Watching things go "pop" -- The cigar surgeon --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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Contents: I didn't make it on playing guitar. -- I washed my hands in muddy water. -- Little cabin on the hill. -- A hundred years from now. -- I've lost you. -- Got my mojo working, keep your hands off of it. -- You don't have to say you love me. -- It ain't no big thing (but it's growing). -- Cindy, Cindy. -- Faded love. -- The fool. -- Rags to riches. -- Just pretend. -- If I were you. -- Where did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records Label 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PreslAsleep at the Wheel (Musical group)
Contents: Half a hundred years -- It's the same old South -- I do what I must -- There you go again (featuring Lyle Lovett) -- My little baby -- Paycheck to paycheck -- Word to the wise (featuring Bill Kirchen) -- That's how I remember it -- The photo -- I love you most of all (when you're not here) -- The wheel boogie -- Take me back to Tulsa (featuring George Strait and Willie Nelson) -- The letter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ASLGarcia Marquez, Gabriel
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARSummary: Four brand new stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, meet a dragon, and then go on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile"; all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover; a penguin arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood during the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILJacobs, Margaret D.
Summary: "A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people, After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.11 JAC(OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)
Summary: A collection of poems arranged in such categories as "Mystery," "Animals," "Childhood," "War," and "Love."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Poetry ONERoberts, Nora
Summary: "It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2017
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Summary: "When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 LUCCooper, Max
Contents: Incompleteness -- Hope -- Phi -- Rule 110 -- Reciprocity -- Emptyset -- Volition -- Platonic -- Identity -- Reflex -- Lovesong -- Memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mesh 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC COORoberts, Nora
Summary: It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed, and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ROBAtwood, Margaret
Summary: When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AtwLai, Thanhha
Summary: When her grandmother gets trapped in her cloudy memories, An and her grandfather AOng come up with a plan to bring her back to a happy moment so she can remember her wedding wish with AOng: hundred years of happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAIRoberts, Nora
Summary: "A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author--an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives... It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017