Lawton, Georgina
Summary: Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perenial 2021
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Summary: A first-hand exploration of blindness, looking at how the blind have been presented in film and literature, attempting to capture in words the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight, and including information from the author about the ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped hiding her blindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.41 KLEAndrews, Georgina.
Summary: A collection of one hundred science experiments designed to provide hands-on experience with scientific investigation, as well as the science behind the experiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC 2006
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Summary: She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007
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Summary: From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.022 REIHawton, Michael
Summary: Childhood anxiety is much more prevalent these days, and parents and carers need to be able to help their kids to prevent dangerous escalation. With 18 years of expert, qualified experience, the author shows how to help children and tweens build up the necessary brain architecture and perspective, and create the emotional reserves and balance needed throughout life. Parent-led strategies for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Exisle Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 HAWMcCartney, Laton.
Summary: In The Teapot Dome Scandal, acclaimed author Laton McCartney tells the amazing, complex, and at times ribald story of how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his so-called "oil cabinet" made it possible for the oilmen to secure vast oil reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.914 MCCLawton, Rebecca
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.6 GIORossetti, Christina Georgina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MARMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARLofton, LouAnn.
Summary: "Investing isn't a man's world anymore--and this book shows why that's a good thing for individual portfolios, Wall Street, and the world's financial system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2011
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Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARGoodfellow, Caroline G. (Caroline Georgina)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BLALupton, Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 LuptonDaston, Lorraine
Summary: "We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 DASDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.78 DUNFonzi, Gaeton.
Summary: Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.64 HEALawlor, Anthony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.01 LAWLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023