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Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFAlford, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.595 ALFAlford, Jeffrey.
Summary: Two hundred easy-to-prepare dishes from the world's great rice cuisines, illuminated by stories, insights, and more than two hundred photographs of people, places, and wonderful food. Reveals how rice is used in different cultures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6318 ALFAlford, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5951 ALFHendy, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2242 HENHendy, David.
Summary: "The first in-depth history of the iconic radio and TV network that has shaped our past and present. Doctor Who; tennis from Wimbledon; the Beatles and the Stones; the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: for one hundred years, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been the preeminent broadcaster in the UK and around the world, a constant source of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.5506 HENPourrat, Henri
Summary: A rich treasury of more than one hundred tales incorporates local legends, fairy tales, animal stories, devotional pieces, and humor from Pourrat's native Auvergne, France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 POUWilford, Hugh
Contents: Introduction -- Innocents' clubs : the origins of the CIA front -- Secret army : emigres -- AFL-CIA : labor -- A deep sickness in New York : intellectuals -- The cultural cold war : writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers -- The CIA on campus : students -- The truth shall make you free : women -- Saving the world : Catholics -- Into Africa : African Americans -- Things fall apart : journalists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 WILGayford, Martin
Summary: From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 GAYHarford, Tim
Contents: Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Who pays for your coffee? -- What supermarkets don't want you to know -- Perfect markets and the "world of truth" -- Crosstown traffic -- The inside story -- Rotten investments and rotten eggs -- The men who knew the value of nothing -- Why poor countries are poor -- Beer, fries, and globalization -- How China grew rich -- Notes -- Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 HARRadford, Leigh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.43 RADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 RADRaiford, Matthew
Summary: "From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah-Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford's Nana handed over the deed to the family farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 RAIAshford, Julie.
Summary: Perfect for the small beading enthusiast this book is packed full of projects. All of the projects have detailed recipes and are fully illustrated with step by step instructions, and all are graded for difficulty. The basics are explained from terminology to techniques and design ideas and inspirations are provided throughout. Each chapter starts with a main project which introduces the theme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound Bead 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 ASHDorra, Henri
Contents: Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 DORDenby, David
Summary: "It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to ourstanding as a great nation--and a personal loss, too, for millions of teenagers who may turn into adults with limited understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 DENBuford, Kate.
Summary: The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THORPE, JIM BUFFons, Marianne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Landauer 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 FONHendry, Fay L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iota Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.7456 HENSlade, Suzanne
Summary: Describes the friendship between the two inventors and how Thomas Edison's advice to the young Henry Ford inspired Ford to work on his automobiles until he came up with an inexpensive, reliable version which became the Model T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SLAThomas, Peggy
Summary: "With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORBamford, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.12 BAMHarford, Tim
Summary: Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 HARHarford, Tim
Summary: "Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often "the only way of grasping much of what is going on around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.4 HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math HarfordHolford, Patrick.
Summary: "A guide to safe, easy, and effective liver detoxing in only nine days, using nutritious, liver-boosting meals and superfoods rather than fasts so readers can cleanse and recharge without sacrificing their normal routine. A healthy liver keeps our bloodstream and other organs clean. But when it's overloaded with toxins it can't properly filter out harmful substances, submetabolize protein and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celestial Arts 2010