Hartig, John H.
Summary: "The stories of fourteen people who led efforts to clean up environmentally degraded areas of the Great Lakes are told to inspire others to get involved and care for the place they call home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.72 HARConrad, Vicki
Summary: "The Florida Everglades are made up of nine different ecosystems supporting an astonishing variety of wildlife-panthers, manatees, snails, frogs, and a rainbow of bird species. But for years, the Everglades were threatened. They needed a voice to speak up for them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas became that voice. Her book "A River of Grass" helped the world see the irreplaceable beauty and value of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUNix, Megan
Summary: "An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIX, MEGAN NIXBeresford-Kroeger, Diana
Summary: "Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERESFORD-KROEGER, DIANA BERHuddleston, Emma
Summary: Explore the rain forest's layers from the airy branches of the emergent layer to the dense underbrush of the forest floor. Learn about the animals that dwell there, the different plant life that thrives, and more. Additional features include a diagram labeling each of the layers, Fast Facts, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, and further sources for learning.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J557.34 HUDMaier, Thomas
Contents: Golden girl -- Heartland -- Mrs. Johnson -- Never going home -- A wonder to behold -- The fertility expert -- The good wife -- Academic freedom -- Through the peephole -- The matrix -- The experiment -- Volunteers -- Noah -- Masks -- Leaving school -- A matter of trust -- Revealing secrets -- The human response -- The excitement of release -- Focusing feelings -- Sexual healing -- Surrogates --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 MAIMarks, Paul A
Summary: "Paul Marks M.D., President Emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, attributes the elusive nature of cancers cure to its inherently anarchic processes. There can be no hope for a miracle cure when defective cells use a myriad of tools to succeed in their relentless assaults. There are many ways cancers get started, and turn healthy cell division and growth into lethal attacks....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 MARLindsay, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.482 LINAnderson, Robert Charles
Summary: Contains detailed information, including occupation, genealogy, public service, estate and unusual or interesting facts, about each family or individual who emigrated to Plymouth Colony between 1620 and 1633.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3744 ANDIsbell, Hannah
Summary: Discusses the life of a Wampanoag Indian who, after living in England and Spain, returned to New England in 1619 and befriended the Pilgrims when they settled in Plymouth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SQUKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Summary: Through the case history of Phineas Gage, a 19th century Vermonter who had an iron bar driven through his brain and lived, the book examines what is known of brain function.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FLELynch, Patrick James
Summary: An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOWSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: Provides a brief history of zoology and profiles three women who are working in the field today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 SWACoote, Stephen.
Contents: Vienna, 1815 -- Elba, 1814 -- The flight of the eagle, 27 February-20 March 1815 -- Paris, 21 March-12 June 1815 -- Waterloo, 12-21 June 1815 -- St. Helena, 21 June 1815-5 May 1821.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DaCapo Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 COORavina, Mark
Summary: "On September 24, 1877, Saigo Takamori, one of Japan's most loyal and honored samurai, died in the bloodiest conflict Japan had seen in over two hundred years - a battle led by Saigo and his band of loyal students. Now, more than 125 years after his death, Saigo still remains a legendary yet enigmatic figure in Japan. Why would Japan's greatest warrior, whose sole purpose was to serve his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAIGO, TAKAMORI RAVKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KIMSisson, Stéphanie Roth
Summary: As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel’s journey as scientist and writer, speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 KIMMacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard)
Summary: "An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as author Philbrick reveals, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic. The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.22 PHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US PhilbrickWhitehurst, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 WHIPreston, Diana
Summary: "When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PREBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010