Burns, Loree Griffin
Summary: On November 14, 1963, something exceptional happened in Iceland--and that's saying a lot. In a country where the average summer temperature is 50°F and the sun only appears for a few hours a day during the winter, an event has to be pretty unusual to stand out. The birth of the island of Surtsey, the newest earth on Earth, was just that. On that November day, a volcano fifteen miles offshore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 BURSveinsson, Thorgeir Freyr
Summary: The volcanic island of Iceland has erupted on to the world travel scene in recent years. With striking scenes of steaming turquoise geysers set among rugged snowy peaks, miles of black sand beaches, and the majesty of the northern lights, one can only wonder what took so long. But what of the people who call this remote North Atlantic island home? Behind a stoic veneer lies a proud,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2021
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Summary: "A daring and magnificent account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies. Many people may have heard the old sailing superstition that having women onboard a ship was bad luck. Thus, the sea remains in popular knowledge a male realm. When we think of examples of daring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THURIDUR EINARSDOTTIR WILReid, Eliza
Summary: "Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 REISheen, Barbara.
Summary: Discusses the role of food in Icelandic culture and common ingredients found in the country's cuisine, and includes recipes for traditional desserts, main courses, and appetizers
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.594912 SHEBrown, Nancy Marie
Summary: "Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art--from ancient times to today--Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.12 BROMiller, Jennifer A.
Summary: An introduction to the landscape, culture, and people of Iceland, with photographs, maps, a description and image of the country's flag, and a fast fact file.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 949.12 MILSummary: Insight Guides Explore is an illustrated, practical pocket-sized travel guide to Iceland with ready-made cycling, walking and driving itineraries for different interests and themes, backed up by maps and all the practical information you will need for your trip. The easy-to-follow routes will save you time, and help you plan and enhance your visit. This Iceland guide book has been fully updated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: APA Publications 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.9 ICEGottlieb, Jenna
Summary: Breathtaking landscapes, unrivaled trekking, and the creative spirit of Reykjavík: experience it all with Moon Iceland. Inside you'll find: * Strategic, flexible itineraries, from a three-day tour of the best of Reykjavík to a nine-day road trip on the famed Ring Road, designed for outdoor adventurers, culture and history buffs, wildlife lovers, and more; * Unique experiences and can't-miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moon Travel 2020
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Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Iceland. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 949.12 KLEMíček, Tomáš
Summary: Describes, in text and photographs, the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the wild horses of Iceland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.16 MICSomervill, Barbara A.
Summary: Discusses the history, government, culture, people, climate, wildlife, and plants of this island nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 949.12 SOMLowry, Beverly
Summary: "In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the scene, but no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LOWSommers, Laurie Kay.
Summary: A history of Fishtown, in Leland Michigan describes this rare and vibrant maritime landscape of weathered fishing shanties and fish tugs, tucked in along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Fishtown has witnessed the heyday of fishing and the trials of the changing Great Lakes but continues to be an active place for commercial fishing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 SOM1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.4635 SOM
Summary: Presents an overview of Irish history from Celtic times through the 1990s, discussing such topics as the spread of Christianity, the decline of the Irish language, and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.341 MACBanville, John
Summary: "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.18 BANBerns, Gregory.
Summary: Draws on such fields as neuoscience, economics, and evolutionary psychology to address the question of how to find a more satisfying way to live, arguing that the key to satisfaction lies in the complexity and challenge in one's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 BEREllis, Peter Berresford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 ELLParlett, Jack
Summary: A definitive history of New York's Fire Island examines how it has been a vital space in the history of queer America and a key influence on art, literature, culture, and politics. Poet and scholar Jack Parlett's account of Fire Island chronicles its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century. Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 PARPetersen, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Creek Press 2004
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI North PetersenBrazer, Marjorie Cahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 BRAKavanagh, Julie
Summary: "One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 KAVSummary: Provides a portrait of life in Celtic Ireland, from A.D. 400 to 1200, through an examination of legends, ancient texts, artifacts, art, and architecture of the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1998