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Summary: Promotes weight loss, healthy eating, and conscious consumerism through veganism, arguing that a meat and dairy-free lifestyle helps one lose weight, live longer, and is better for the economy and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 FREReston, James
Contents: Prologue: The Battle of Maldon -- King Olaf Trygvesson --Thorgeir the Lawspeaker --- Queen Sigrid the Strong-Minded -- Svein Forkbeard versus Ethelred the Unready -- Armageddon at sea -- Al Mansour, the Avenging Moor -- Little Sancho and Sancho the Great -- Forty thousand horsemen of the Apocalpse -- Vajk the Saint -- Gerbert the Wizard --Theophano, almost purple-born -- Otto the Dreamer --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 RESStim, Richard.
Contents: Will you really retire? -- Start your planning (and dreaming) now -- Invest in your health -- Strengthen family ties -- Appreciate friends, old and new -- Develop lifelong interests and activities now -- Figure out your number -- Convert debt into retirement savings -- Where will the money come from? -- Growing and protecting retirement assets -- Working after retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 STICall number: 646.79 STI
Tam, Michelle
Summary: Offers a variety of family-friendly paleo recipes as well as strategies for stocking the pantry, feeding kids, maximizing flavor, and saving time in the kitchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5638 TAMLim, Louisa
Summary: "An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 LIMLim, Michael
Summary: The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent and penicillin. Today, in the face of urgent ecological, societal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.5 LIMRenton, Alex
Summary: When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 RENWright, Jim
Summary: "Owls are some of the most beneficial and enjoyable wildlife we can spot near our homes-screech owls specifically are one of the only species that can and do nest successfully near humans, notably in suburbs and city parks. As traditional screech owl habitats are lost to development, providing new housing for these owls is increasingly vital, and this first-of-its-kind, complete guide will show...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2024
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Summary: Actual Malice is a true crime thriller that will take you through the back rooms of political gamesmanship, deception, and cover-up. In May of 2001, the moderate Blue Dog Democrats - of which Gary Condit was a founding member - held significant power in Congress. The sky was the limit. When Chandra Levy, an Bureau of Prisons intern, disappeared in 2001, the wheels came off Gary's ambitions....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ghost Mountain Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PEAPrescod-Weinstein, Chanda
Summary: "Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 PREHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: Documents the rise and fall of the legendary Memphis thoroughfare that indelibly shaped American culture, documenting its story through the life of former slave and first black millionaire Robert Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 LAUPreston, Diana
Summary: The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. In 30 BCE, the 39-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, the future first emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide. Historian Diana Preston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Pub. Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.021092 PREPreston, Diana
Summary: "While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin-the so-called "Big Three"-met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town ofYalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds of the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PREPreston, John
Summary: "The Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists is the go-to resource for mental health clinicians looking for clear, reliable information about the treatment of mental health issues. Organized by disorder and, within each disorder, by medication, this book is designed to familiarize clinicians and students with the basic terminology and models of pharmacokinetics.This fully revised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 PREMowry, Tia
Summary: "The beloved actress and star of the digital original series Quick Fix shows how to embrace home cooking with easy, delicious, and healthy recipes for the entire family, saving time and energy and bringing balance to your kitchen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.512 MOWMowry, Tia
Summary: "From the star of the Cooking Channel's Tia Mowry at Home comes a timely clean-eating cookbook that will change the way you think about what you eat and jump-start your journey to a healthier, more gorgeous you,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5635 MOWPowell, Tia
Summary: "The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to mention confronting the hard truth that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 POWStim, Richard
Contents: The provisional patent application -- Deciding whether to file a provisional application : the seven hurdles -- Finding previous inventions -- Drafting the provisional patent application : Part 1: Drawing your invention -- Drafting the provisional patent application : Part 2: Describing your invention -- Filing and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legal StimProeller Hueston, Marie.
Contents: Home libraries -- All through the house -- Books as details -- Bookshelves as architecture -- Booknotes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.9 PROPreston, Diana
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.03 PREPreston, Diana
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.45 PREPreston, Paul
Summary: Describes the atrocities committed during the reign of General Francisco Franco, who executed tens of thousands of "non-persons" and abused women and children under a belief system comprised of eugenics, terror, domination, and mind control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.08 PREKachidurian, Debbie Prestine
Summary: "Step-by-step instructions teach readers how to create bracelets, anklets, rings, and other jewelry accessories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017