Strauss, Linda Leopold
Summary: "This true story begins long ago in Spain, where a bride and groom are gifted a hand-painted haggadah. It is used at many Passover seders until the Spanish Inquisition when the family escapes. The haggadah survived for centuries in different countries. Scholars declared it a treasure. To protect it from the Nazis, a curator smuggled it out of a Sarajevo museum and hid it in a village mosque. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 296.4 STRSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs save for an account of his role in the Gemini program before the tragic launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, which took his life and those of Edward White and Roger Chaffee. The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannot be understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRISSOM, GUS LEOLeopold, Aldo
Summary: In 1953 Aldo Leopold bought 80 acres of badly eroded farmland along a bend of the Wisconsin River. Leopold and his family began to manage and restore the land. Written with the knowledge of a scientist and the eye of a poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 508.73 LEOStokowski, Leopold
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL STOVienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Summary: Tragic events take place in the court of Herod where the beautiful, young Salome demands the head of John the Baptist after seducing Herod with the "Dance of the seven veils."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SALDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWIFT, JONATHAN DAMLeopold, Aldo
Summary: Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1968
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Summary: "A guide for girls of color looking to find their voice and claim space as they prepare for high school, college, and their careers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 HARDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DAMLeopold, Les
Summary: "Layoffs upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of modern financialized capitalism? In Wall Street's War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 LEOBridgforth, Glinda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 BRIHarts, Minda
Summary: "In these tumultuous times, as workplaces across the nation struggle to become truly inclusive, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, how to heal from racialized trauma, how to find relief from invisible workplace burdens. The stakes are high, as even Lauryn Hill had put it: "How you gonna win when you ain't right within?" In Right Within, Harts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3008 HARLeopold, Allison Kyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 LEOLind, Carla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 LINAmer, Lindz
Summary: "A young informational storybook introducing the concept of pronouns and identifying one's pronouns to kids"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AMEBacon, Lindo
Summary: "Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates 'thin' with 'healthy' is the problem. The solution? Health at every size. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 BACLinde, Nancy.
Summary: 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia is a lively mix of challenges, riddles, and brainteasers all vetted by a neuroscientist who specializes in aging brains and designed to work the six key areas of cognitive function that are vulnerable in normal aging: long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
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Summary: Order up! This book introduces readers to a chef's career by focusing on the tools they use. Readers explore essential tools used in a restaurant's kitchen, including peelers, knives, timers, and thermometers. The text demonstrates how each tool works and how it helps a chef make a meal. Accessible text and eye-catching photographs are sure to grab the reader's attention, while fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5 STRMaslo, Lina
Summary: When Malala Yousafzai was born, people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, people said girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUStrauss, Eric.
Summary: Ecology is to reveal the nature of ourselves and of our relationship with the species around us. The lectures in this course are often in pairs, with basic ecological principles discussed in the first lecture and the human role or human implications addressed in the second.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 525 EARStrauss, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.8 STRStrauss, William.
Summary: Looks back over the past 500 years in order to uncover distinct patterns in history resulting in a cyclical formula comprising growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth and applies this cycle to the next century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 StraussStraus, Roger.
Summary: "An evocative and stunning photographic tribute to America's railroad stations. For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad station or depot was the communal hub of every American town that could boast of train service. There, citizens gathered before they sent loved ones off to college, marriage, or war-and where they greeted them on their return. Most of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2011