Stein, Arlene
Summary: Sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon's office, having traveled to Florida from across the United States in order to masculinize their chests. Ben, Lucas, Parker, and Nadia wish to feel more comfortable in their bodies; three of them are also taking testosterone so that others recognize them as male. Following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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Summary: "At the age of twenty-one, Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and several of his other disciples, for the infamous murder rampage spanning two nights in August 1969. Leslie, who was present at the Rosemary and Leno LaBianca murders, cheerfully accepted her sentence, wishing only that she had better served Manson in carrying out his apocalyptic vision of "Helter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northeastern University Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST BREBlum, Deborah
Summary: Science journalist Deborah Blum shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. She tracks the perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Drama unfolds case by case as chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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Summary: Chronicles the exploration by Larry Williams and Bob Cornuke to find the biblical mountain where Moses recieved the Ten Commandments after the flight of the Jews from Egyptian enslavement. With bible in hand the explorers find Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia, at a peak now known as Jabal al Lawz, which in the late 1970s became part of a top-secret military installation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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Summary: A true-life tale of vindication and redemption relates how retired spy Tennant Bagley got back into the game to solve a strange death, and reconciled with his daughter, a CIA officer, who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet. The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones, and often the first thing we check each morning. Yet behind these quotidian interactions is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: Follows New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, as he hunts for German conspirators on American soil during World War I during a sabotage campaign that began in 1914 when the German ambassador to the U.S., Johann von Bernstoff, was instructed to develop an intelligence network to keep America out of WWI and prevent the shipment of supplies and war material to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4867 BLUBaker, Arlene
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 BAKErlbach, Arlene.
Summary: Describes various games played by children in countries around the world, describing the places where the games are played and the directions and equipment needed for each game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.1 ERLBlum, Beth
Summary: "Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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Summary: Offers a high-protein, hormone-balancing, and detoxifying program that will help readers lose weight, get healthy, and feel good from the inside out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 BLUBrum, Eliane
Summary: In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. In community with the human and more-than-human world of the Amazon, Brum seeks to “reforest” herself while building relationships with forest peoples who carry both the scars and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.98115 BRUBlum, Deborah
Summary: Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley set out to ensure food safety. He selected food tasters to test various food additives and preservatives, letting them know that the substances could be harmful or deadly. The tasters were recognized for their courage, and became known as the poison squad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: A tale of murder, deceit, celebrity, media manipulation, and film as propaganda, when the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 exposed a deadly "national dynamite plot" by trade unionists to terrorize America with one hundred bombings in a doomed attempt to force capitalism to its knees. The relentless pursuit, capture, trial, and punishment of the bombers made a national hero of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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Summary: Based on the PBS-TV series presented by Mobil as The compleat Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1983
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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Summary: Documents the true story of how a Secret Service agent and his unlikely Soviet partner foiled a Nazi plot to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BLUBlum, Howard.
Summary: Set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, this true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush describes a mystery surrounding the disappearance of gold bars stolen from the Treadmill Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Without clues, it appears the crime may never be solved, but Charlie Siringo of the Pinkerton Agency sets out on a rugged cross-country odyssey to catch the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2010
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Summary: Learn how monitoring the night sky, mapping trees, photographing dragonflies, and identifying mushrooms can help save the world! Citizen science is the public involvement in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve one person or millions of people collaborating towards a common goal. It is an excellent option for anyone looking for ways to get involved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 CAVPeckham, Arline B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.B. Peckham [and] C.W. Peckham 2002