Kane, Cyndi
Summary: "Whether you enjoy cooking or not, it can be exhausting to cook a new meal from scratch every single night--especially if you have a family to feed. Batch cooking is a way around this but means that half your meals will be reheated leftovers, which gets unappetizing after a few days. Instead, Cyndi Kane uses her "Save-It-Forward" method to cut down on cooking time and food waste and still feed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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Summary: Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6609 KAYHynde, Chrissie
Summary: Pretenders singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde tells exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul's capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland -- Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HYNDE HYNHenderson, Sandi.
Summary: 35 projects to turn your favorite fabric scraps into well-loved treasures Sewing with scraps is an economical way to make the most of your designer fabrics-as well as a fun way to use up a stash of your favorite leftovers for smaller projects. Michael Miller fabric designer Sandi Henderson holds to the adage "waste not, want not" to deliver a collection of innovative sewing projects that lets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 646.2 HENHuckelbridge, Dane
Summary: "American Sniper meets Jaws: The gripping true account of the Champawat Tiger, the deadliest animal of all time (killer of an astonishing 436 humans), and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who brought it down in 1907"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 799.2 HUCMargaret, Lane.
Summary: When Beatrix Potter died, few people knew the full story of her life. Margaret Lane's remarkable piece of literary detective work, originally published only three years after Beatrix's death, told her story for the first time. Extensively revised in 1985 to include new material that had come to light, and now available in this eBook format, it remains essential reading for anyone interested in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books Ltd 2011
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Summary: This selection of simple country recipes resembles the types of dishes that Beatrix Potter may have prepared when she married at age forty-seven and moved to Sawrey in Cumberland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Warne 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 LANCate, Annette.
Summary: A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CATCone, Molly
Summary: Describes the efforts of the Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington, to clean up a nearby stream, stock it with salmon, and preserve it as an unpolluted place where the salmon could return to spawn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books for Children 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR ORANGE BAUBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: Describes the orbit, rotation, temperature, and surface formations of the planet Mercury and the probe Mariner X that took pictures of it in 1974 and 1975.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 523.41 BRIBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: Describes the history, equipment, safety tips, and competitive riding of mountain bikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.6 BRIWilliams, Cindy
Summary: The star of Laverne & Shirley tells stories of her struggles as a child growing up with meager means and dreaming of becoming an actress. She also shares many misadventures and amusing anecdotes about some of the most famous actors in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Pub. 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLIAMS WILPflueger, Lynda.
Summary: A biography of the American humorist and writer whose writing greatly reflected the events of his life, particularly his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TWAIN PFLBrimner, Larry Dane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watts 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.2 BRIGardener, Lynda
Summary: Doyenne of the unique and decorative, Australian interior stylist and boutique hotelier Lynda Gardener is always on the hunt for finds to enhance her homes and decorating projects. Her ability to curate and display these personal treasures has created a trademark style that is loved internationally. Curate, the highly anticipated book by Lynda and journalist and stylist Ali Heath, reveals how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Beazley 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 747 GARLopez, Lynda
Summary: "From the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a ten-term incumbent in the primary election for New York's 14th, her journey to the national, if not world, stage, was fast-tracked. AOC investigates her symbolic and personal significance for so many, fromher willingness to use her imperfect bi-lingualism, to the threat she poses by governing like a man, to the long history of Puerto Rican...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B OCASIO-CORTEZ LOPShapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHAPIRO SHANeuschwander, Cindy.
Summary: Matt and Bibi accompany their scientist parents to Egypt to search for the mummy of an ancient pharoah, and after becoming lost in the pyramid, must use their geometry skills to decipher the clues encoded in the hieroglyphics to locate the burial chamber and find their way out again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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Summary: Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, updated and revised by education specialist Cyndi Giorgis, discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PENGUIN BOOKS 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 372.45 TREBauer, Marion Dane
Summary: "From planets and stars to constellations and meteor showers, readers will discover the amazing sights that can be seen in our night sky in this stellar Level 1 Ready-to-Read"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: ""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.80 KENBare, Colleen Stanley.
Summary: Points out that though guinea pigs don't read books or play checkers, they make good friends and are gentle and lovable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1985
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636 BARShapiro, Dani
Summary: "Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023