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Summary: "Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRASSE, WILHELM CRISlesin, Suzanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter, Inc. 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.0952 SLESchotz, Susanne
Summary: A leading authority on cat communication provides a crash course in speaking cat, describing what feline vocalizations mean in different situations, and provides practical advice to help better understand pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 SCHTaylor, Saranne
Summary: This fun title explores different kinds of animal homes and how they are built. From a beavers dam to a termites mound, readers will love learning all about animal architects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591 TAYAlthoff, Susanne
Summary: "Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 ALTWedlich, Susanne
Summary: Takes readers on a sticky scientific adventure through the three-billion-year history of slime, exploring its part in the evolution of life and its cultural and emotional significance, from its starring role in the horror genre to its subtle influence on Art Nouveau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611 WEDRobins, Suzann Panek
Contents: Birthing integration -- Evolving definitions -- Understanding life force -- Discerning systems -- Sensing perception -- Connecting tensions -- Developing stages -- Maintaining balance -- Running energy -- Overflowing pleasure -- Changing roles -- Opening connections -- Blending gender -- Embracing shadow -- Creating focus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 ROBSasse, Benjamin E
Summary: Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 SASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult SasseHassed, Craig
Summary: A house is merely physical but a home is far more subtle and elusive. The Mindful Home takes the view that being 'at home' is a metaphor for finding ourselves - finding our core. What do we find at our core? Well, if the world's great wisdom traditions have anything to say about it then home is about qualities that we could equate with 'good' itself - true happiness, peace, beauty, wisdom and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Exisle Publishing Pty Ltd 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 HASZaske, Sara
Summary: "When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she knew the transition would be challenging, especially when she became pregnant with her second child. She was surprised to discover that German parents give their children a great deal of freedom--much more than Americans. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 ZASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 ZASHaise, Fred
Summary: "The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAISE, FRED HAIPaska, Megan
Summary: The number of urban beekeepers has escalated with more than 25 percent increases year over year in the United States and the United Kingdom. From a go-to authority on beekeeping and backyard farming, The Rooftop Beekeeper is the first handbook to explore the ease and charm of keeping bees in an urban environment. This useful manual--at once a good read and a pretty object--features a relatable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 PASGasser, Nolan
Summary: "From the chief architect of Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love" -- From book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.1 GASYourgrau, Palle.
Summary: It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Godel had produced a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 YOUPascu, Stefan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.84 PASPasque, Peter
Summary: "How could a smarter electronic alarm system make life easier for your friends or family? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for them. This book introduces readers to design thinking and asks them to imagine an alarm system that might keep out a snooping sibling--and then design it themselves. Design thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM Inno PasqueWest, Patsy
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9759 WESGrasse, Steven
Summary: From the wildly creative team behind Philadelphia's Art in the Age comes The Cocktail Workshop, a deep-dive into 20 classic drinks that make up the foundation of cocktail creation, and the delicious variations that will make them all your own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.874 GRAProse, Francine
Summary: Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE PROPascoe, Elaine.
Summary: Explores the various hoaxes that have been successfully perpetrated and believed by the gullible masses, such as crop circles, fairies on film, and giant cats, examining how such trickery was done so well and the process by which the hoaxers and their stunts were finally revealed to all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.95 PASPaster, Emily
Summary: A celebration of delicious foods from Jewish cooks. Learn about one of the most vital subtopics in Jewish cooking: preserved foods. Jewish cooks, even casual ones, are proud of the history of preserved foods in Jewish life, from the time of living in a desert two millennia ago to the era in which Jews lived in European ghettoes with no refrigeration during the last century. In a significant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 PASPearse, Emma.
Summary: This is the story of a dog's journey back to her family. Sophie Tucker, a three-year-old Australian blue heeler, goes overboard into the predator infested waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and Sophie's heartbroken family has given her up for lost; little do they know that Sophie swam six miles to an isolated nature preserve called St. Bees, where she survived unassisted for five months by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 PEAPaine, Crystal.
Summary: As a wife, mother of three, and founder of the wildly successful blog MoneySavingMom.com, Crystal Paine has walked the road from barely surviving to living with intention. With the warmth and candor of a dear friend, she shares what she's learned along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.843 PAIBusse, Ryan
Summary: "Ryan Busse has traveled a long, circuitous path along the American gun journey. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist-all things that the firearms industry was built on-he rose to the highest ranks of the rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar firearms industry. But rampant fear-mongering, racism, hardline conservative politics, massive profits from semi-automatic weapons sales,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021