Bissell, Tom
Summary: In April 1975, as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, former Marine officer John Bissell was glued to his television, racked with anguish and horror as his country abandoned a cause for which so many of his friends had died. This book is his son Tom's reckoning with the Vietnam War and its impact on his father, his country, and Vietnam itself. Bissell also explores the many debates about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 BISGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GHOGreene, Joshua
Contents: Beginnings -- George among the savages -- A price to pay -- A father to his spirit -- Rebirth -- In the land of gods -- Devotees -- Looking for Krishna -- All things must pass -- The sky beneath his feet -- Dark horse -- Laws of nature -- Sacred ground -- Going back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, GEORGE GREYolen, Jane.
Summary: Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yolen 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOLLloyd-Jones, Sally
Summary: Little Red Squirrel spends a day showing his father all of the wonderful things he can do, as he tries to guess why Daddy loves him
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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Summary: "An indispensable handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the first 12 months, by the author of The Expectant Father. The essential handbook for all things first-year father is now fully updated and revised. Not only will new dads get a month-by-month guide to their baby's development, men reading The New Father will learn how they change, grow, and develop over the first twelve months of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Hymns: All my hope on God is founded -- Come down, O Love divine -- Father, hear the pray we offer -- Glorious things of Thee are spoken -- God is love, let heav'n adore Him -- Holy, holy, holy -- Praise my soul, the King of Heaven -- My song is love unknown -- Be thou my vision -- Praise to the holiest in the height. Psalms: Psalm 67 -- Psalm 121 -- Psalm 128. -- Athems: Love one another /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Priory Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING MUSAllen, Kendra
Summary: "Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALLSummary: In the beginning was Chaos. And Eurynome divided the seas from the sky, set the wind in motion, and released the forces of nature. Out of the Universal Egg emerged the sun and moon, the planets, the stars, the earth, and all living things. This program tells that story, and that of the first family: Gaea, Uranus, and Cronus. It then moves on to Zeus: his birth on Crete, the trick by which he...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010