Burnell, Cerrie
Summary: This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present. In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 30 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with disabilities, from past and present. From Frida Kahlo to Stephen Hawking, find out how these iconic figures have overcome obstacles, owned their differences and paved the way for others by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BURFerrier, Katherine
Summary: When autumn comes around at Hotel Strange, a band of talking mushrooms mistake Kiki for their king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2016
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Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIOWillis, Terrie.
Summary: Describes the geography, history, plants and animals, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of Romania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 949.8 WILPurnell, Sonia
Summary: "This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOIPurnell, Geoff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patrick Stephens 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.21 PurnellPurnell, Sonia
Summary: Late in life, Winston Churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been "impossible' without the woman who stood by his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. Why, then, do we know so little about her? A long overdue tribute to this remarkably resilient woman, Clementine plunges us into the Churchills' vibrant and tumultuous private world. It reveals just how much Winston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 110 NON FIC PURPurnell, Brontez
Summary: "An irreverent, dirty, and profoundly intimate collection of vignettes exploring gay male desire, loneliness, sex, and self-sabotage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD x FSG Originals 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PURBunnell, David
Summary: "Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUNNELL, DAVID HUGH BUNPurnell, Sonia
Summary: "The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom GoillotOughton, Jerrie.
Summary: A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 OUGMcCall, Gerrie
Summary: Features 44 dragons that appear in myth, folk tales, literature, and movies from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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Summary: Offers his and hers variations on twenty-five gift and party crafts that employ a range of techniques and materials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KP Craft 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 CURCurrie, Stephen
Summary: "Though experts disagree about the specific meaning of the term digital literacy, it is usually used to refer to a variety of skills, including the ability to find content online, to create digital content, to communicate digitally, and-perhaps most important-to evaluate what is found online for accuracy and trustworthiness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004 CURCurrie, Elliott
Summary: "In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 CURNoll, Terrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 694.6 NOLBurrell, Paul
Summary: A former butler for Princess Diana who became her trusted confidant recalls his ten years of service to the princess, separating the truth from the myths of her life to offer his insights into her years as a member of the royal family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIAFerrie, Chris
Summary: "Pluto the planet Was really quite proud. But at the party of planets, It wasn't allowed... Scientists have determined that Pluto is a minor planet and is no longer considered one of the main planets of the Solar System. But that doesn't mean we don't love Pluto and the other minor planets in the universe! From the team behind the adorably popular 8 Little Planets comes a new tale about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2020
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE FERFerrie, Chris
Summary: Offers a simple illustrated introduction to organic chemistry, describing how carbin, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms react differently to one another to create many unique molecue structures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018
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Summary: This is the International Edition of Willoughby’s World of Wonder, a fictional reproduction of the famous 1882 Field Guide to Strange Beasts & Curious Creatures. Willoughby’s, as it was popularly known, was created by noted cryptozoologist and naturalist, Angus Willoughby. For half a century, this unique reference guide was used as a textbook in many universities around the globe, and was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antarctica Arts 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 BARFerrie, Chris
Summary: "From anatomy to zoology, the ABCs of Biology is a colorfully simple introduction for babies--and grownups--to a new biology concept for every letter of the alphabet."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018
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Summary: Introduces a new mathematics concept for every letter of the alphabet, from addition to zero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE FERCurrell, David.
Summary: Summary: A wide variety of projects for all levels of experience, descriptions of techniques, and guidance on staging puppets and setting up a performance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.59224 CURYarnell, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009