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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.08 THOErvin, Kristine S.
Summary: "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: "Fun facts about dinosaurs presented in a quiz like style. Learn about everything from Triceratops to Tyrannosaurs Rex."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: "Fun, factual information about sharks. from the Truth Or Lie series."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of essays by regional journalists, academics, and religious and community leaders commemorates the October 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue while describing how neighbors are working together to heal and help preventfuture tragedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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Summary: People everywhere are waking up to the extraordinary health benefits of coconut oil. Rejoice, then, in more than 75 mouthwatering, gluten-free, grain-free coconut oil and coconut flour recipes paired with beautiful photographs. Why coconut? Sales of coconut oil are skyrocketing as health-conscious people everywhere are embracing the health benefits of this wonder food. Coconut oil has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 NYLPalacio, R. J.
Summary: "Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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Summary: Offers easy vegetarian main dishes for young people to cook, along with information on equipment needed, cooking techniques, safety tips, and notes on special ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Offers easy pizza and related recipes for young people to cook, along with information on equipment needed, cooking techniques, safety tips, and notes on special ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Offers easy-to-follow recipes for dishes such as the banana dog, black bean veggie burger, sandwich on a stick, and grilled apple and cheese, with photographs of important steps as well as the finished dishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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Summary: Offers easy pasta and rice recipes for young people to cook, along with information on equipment needed, cooking techniques, safety tips, and notes on special ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023
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Summary: A children's cookbook featuring recipes for meat dishes, including Asian shrimp stir fry, chicken kebabs, and taco meatballs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears from germs to natural disasters and everything in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 JOHMoskowitz, Eva S.
Summary: "Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as the founder and leader of Success Academy Charter Schools, one of the country's most highly regarded networks of schools, but while most people know Eva for her success in educating 20,000 mainly low-income students who are routinely accepted to our nation's best universities, she has also been responsible for raising three children of her own....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAPOLEON ENGEnglund, Will
Summary: "A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ENGHoyt, Erich
Summary: "Invites readers to dive into the dazzling nighttime ocean. Countless microscopic plankton -- larval creatures such as ornate ghost pipefish, left-handed hermit crabs and bony-eared assfish -- ascend to the upper waters to feed, returning to the depths before sunrise."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 578.77 HOYEnglund, Peter
Summary: Englund examines the history of World War I through the experiences of the average man and woman-- not only the tragedy and horror but also the absurdity and even, at times, the beauty. In a brilliant mosaic of perspectives that moves between the home front and the front lines, he reconstructs the feelings, impressions, experiences, and shifting spirits of twenty particular people, allowing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ENGHyland, Véronique
Summary: "Everything--from societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of women's rights to the hidden motivations behind what we choose to wear to align ourselves with a particular social group--can be tracked through clothing. Veronique Hyland examines thought-provoking questions such as: Why has the "French girl" persisted as our most undying archetype? What does "dressing for yourself" really...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.009 HYLHazan, Éric
Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZFromm, Erich
Summary: "To have or to be? is one of the seminal books of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revelation to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015