Aronne, Louis J.
Summary: Are you tired of yo-yo dieting? Weight-loss specialist Dr. Aronne shares the plan that has worked so well for his many patients. Through his friendly guidance, you'll finally learn the strategy for feeling full with fewer calories; teach your brain to stop craving food; learn to put down your fork automatically--without counting a single calorie; learn what common medications and medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 AROIlona.
Contents: The first taste -- The magic -- In the hive -- Dancing with bees -- From nectar to honey -- Living with bees -- The sting -- The danger -- The fragrant work -- Beyond honey -- The taste of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 REALoomis, Roger Sherman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Constable 1967
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.932 LIMRegan-Loomis, Meghan.
Contents: Getting them close to term -- The diaper party -- Begging, borrowing, and stealing -- Gathering the troops (your helpers) -- Organizing the household -- The stuff : what you'll really need -- To minivan or not to minivan? -- Naming two -- Thinking ahead to day care and work issues -- Life with two newborns -- The daily chart -- Feeding two newborns -- On schedule or on demand? -- Coping with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.144 REGLoftis, Larry
Summary: "As the U.S. enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different--and they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: "Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and decay of their secret, interconnected, world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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Summary: Whether you're hiking red rock trails in the Valley of the Sun or relaxing in Scottsdale's resorts, take Arizona at your own speed with Moon Phoenix, Scottsdale & Sedona. Inside you'll find: Strategic, flexible itineraries like a luxurious desert getaway, a family road trip, and the 4-day best of the Valley of the Sun. Unique experiences and can't-miss sights: Explore the local art scene, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moon Travel 2023
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Summary: On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent. The Serbian was a British double agent, and the money―which he had just stolen from the Germans―belonged to the British. From the sideline, watching with intent interest was none other than Ian Fleming… The Serbian was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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Summary: "An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective. When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off of the Mayflower, ready to start a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Homemade rules in the kitchen, and everyone from artisan bakers to canners and picklers know it.Culinary enthusiasts and hungry home cooks are exploring classic skills again, and making homemade, hand-shaped pasta is on the rise. With the simplest ingredients and easier-than-you-think instructions, Making Artisan Pasta teaches you how make your own linguine, ravioli, lasagna, and dozens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2012
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Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: Chronicles the extraordinary life of OSS spy Aline Griffith, who performed deep-cover intelligence missions during and after World War II throughout the upper echelons of European politics and society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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Summary: A New York Times best-selling author writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II-at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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Summary: "In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "A safe, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide to using cannabis--including CBD and THC--to ease chronic and acute health issues such as pain, insomnia, inflammation, depression, anxiety, grief, stress, and more, from the founder of a global cannabis wellness network and an osteopathic physician. With legalization of recreational cannabis in 10 states and medical marijuana in 33 states, interest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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Summary: "A short, reader-friendly treatment of happiness from a leading figure in positive psychology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 LOMRegan, Iliana
Summary: "From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how Regan's complex gender identity informs her acclaimed work as a chef and her profound experience of the natural world." -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate Midway 2023