Ravin, Idan.
Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIAntin, Evan
Summary: "Star of Animal Planet's Evan Goes Wild and People magazine's "Pet Vet" Dr. Evan Antin takes readers beyond his viral Instagram posts right into the wild world with him. World Wild Vet is an up close and personal look at planet earth, in all its wild glory. But beyond the laugh-out-loud stories and dangerous encounters with some of our planet's most exotic creatures, it is a clarion call to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTIN, EVAN ANTHunter, Evan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNJacobs, Evan
Summary: Expelled from high school number one, Tyler Ruiz is attending his second. Not a great record for a sophomore with anger issues. Then he meets Sara Allen. Tyler’s a good-looking guy, so he figures Sara’s an easy hookup. But she isn’t. She’s complicated. And uninterested. Which makes Tyler want her even more. As he learns about Sara’s punk rock world, Tyler’s protective outer layers peel away....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2015
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Summary: Presents a guide to the meanings and stories behind over 125 well known brand names, arranged by product type, and includes food, clothes, cars, household furnishings, and cell phones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.827 MORThomas, Evan
Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D THOThomas, Evan
Summary: "This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guild Press/Emmis Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.2 BAYBloom, Evan
Summary: "Here is a cookbook for Jews who like food and food lovers who like Jews. From nationally recognized Jewish deli and Bay Area favorite, Wise Sons, this cookbook presents over 50 recipes for salads, soups, baked goods, holiday dishes, and more from their beloved restaurants. Recipes are organized into 20 occasions that chronicle a Jewish life in food-from Shabbat and Mitzvah Moments, to J-Dating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5676 BLODahm, Evan
Summary: "Once, everyone called Sola 'cursed.' Now they call her hero. But why doesn't she feel like one? After their quest to find the Monster, Sola and her friends have gone down separate paths. Sola spends her days on the open seas while Hunder stays close to home as the chief of the unified Sun and Fortress Islands. And Wick? Well . . . it's almost as if he's become a ghost. Then their world is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DAHGriffith, Evan
Summary: The biography of Jeanne Villepreux-Power whose curiosity about undersea life led her to pioneer the use of glass tanks for research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POWRatliff, Evan
Summary: "The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux--the creator of a powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of painkillers to American customers. It would not stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 RATThompson, Evan
Summary: A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 THOKeane, Erin
Summary: "In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEANE, ERIN KEACrossley-Holland, Kevin
Summary: Collects tales of Norse mythology featuring the powerful Odin, Thor and his hammer, Mjolnir, Loki, the final battle of Ragnarok, and power stuggles among the figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 398 CRORaiford, Matthew
Summary: "From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah-Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford's Nana handed over the deed to the family farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 RAIBrook, Kevin Alan
Summary: "The Jews of Khazaria explores the history and culture of Khazaria--a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia) in the early Middle Ages noted for its adoption of the Jewish religion. The third edition of this modern classic features new and updated material throughout, including new archaeological findings, new genetic evidence, and new information about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 BROKatz, Evan Ross
Summary: "The oral history and exploration of the cultural impact of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the classic, ground-breaking television show still adored by fans old and new, from pop culture critic and nearly lifelong devotee of the show Evan Ross Katz, social media's foremost Sarah Michelle Gellar historian"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 KATSchwartz, Evan I.
Summary: Traces the invention of the television by Philo T. Farnsworth and the determined but losing battle he fought with David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and founder of NBC, to hold onto his creation in the face of corporate competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.388 SCHSummary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005