Woog, Adam
Summary: Describes the invention and development of YouTube. The book begins with a brief history of video sharing on the Web and then goes on to discuss the three young men who came up with the idea for YouTube after working together at PayPal, and what getting the start-up off the ground entailed. Details of how the site works (and makes money) are explained, as are questions of copyright and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.7 WOOHart, Elva Treviño.
Summary: "A vividly told autobiographical account of the life of a child growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. Elva Trevino Hart was born in south Texas to Mexican immigrants and spent her childhood moving back and forth between Texas and Minnesota, eventually leaving that world to earn a master's degree in computer science/engineering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HARWoods, Geraldine.
Summary: The easy way to score your highest on the SAT Whether you are a student struggling with math, reading, or writing essays, this updated edition of SAT For Dummies offers advice for tackling the toughest questions, as well as hints and tips for making the most of the time available to complete each section. You'll get the information you need to focus on the areas that are most problematic for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2011
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Books, Eureka.
Summary: Say Goodbye to Survival Mode by Crystal Paine | Key Takeaways & AnalysisCrystal Paine's Say Goodbye to Survival Mode is a self-help book that targets women who are struggling to stay on top of life's daily tasks. The book offers tips as to how readers can tackle and improve various aspects of their lives. Through personal stories from the author, other experts and bloggers, and the author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eureka Books 2015
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Eureka Books
Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain illustrates the latest research findings about the opposing characteristics of introverts and extroverts. This companion to Quiet includes: Overview of the book; Important People; Key Takeaways; Analysis of Key Takeaways; and much more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: iDreamBooks Inc 2015
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Woodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOOWoolf, Alex
Summary: Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the history of books and how important they have been to civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts�, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Summary: "An unlocked door to a secret science lab would be hard for any student to ignore. But what if you snuck in--and the door locked behind you? In this book, readers need to solve puzzles and find codes throughout the pictures and text in order to escape Science terms and concepts, such as animal classification, the human body, and the pH scale, are described as part of the story."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOOWood, Alix
Summary: "Whoops You kicked your soccer ball over the wall of a mysterious math professor. Can you get it back? Not without solving some puzzles first From geometry to prime numbers, math is the way readers can escape from the home and gardens on the math professor. Readers discover clues scattered throughout the book as they use probability, circles and degrees, and even the Fibonacci sequence to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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Summary: "On a class trip, you tour a real, working ship. But what if you got locked in--alone? In this book, readers use engineering knowledge they have and gain from the main text in order to solve a series of puzzles. Once solved, they can escape from the ship! Clues are found on every page, encouraging readers to read carefully and use their critical thinking skills to find and work out each one....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOOWood, Monica.
Summary: 1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father's wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Wood, Kevin
Summary: Imagine you're on your way to visit an artist's studio, excited to see new work. But once you're inside, the door shuts-and locks you in! A frantic note advises you to leave, however, a number of puzzles need to be completed before that's possible. This book is a must-have, with content encouraging a unique combination of problem-solving, critical thinking, and reading comprehension. Art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Touring a hacker's hideout might be exciting-if you could get out! Readers of this book have wandered where they shouldn't be and need to use technology knowledge they have and acquire while reading this book to find clues hidden throughout the book. They solve puzzles using technology topics like Boolean logic, binary, and Morse code, as well as critical thinking in order to escape."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOOFisher, Suzanne Woods.
Summary: For readers who long for strong families that know how to truly enjoy life together, there is much to learn from the Amish. Values like community, forgiveness, simple living, obedience, and more can be your family legacy—without selling your car, changing your wardrobe, or moving out to farm country. In Amish Values for Your Family , bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher shows how you can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Woods, Geraldine R.
Summary: Provides information on grammatical rules and how to use them, discussing verbs and verb tenses, subjects, adjectives and adverbs, prepositions, interjections, articles, pronouns, and punctuation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub., Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 425 WOOEig, Jonathan
Summary: "Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Pine Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.977 WOOGood Housekeeping Institute (COR)
Summary: Features over three hundred Christmas recipes, including Christmas cranberry juleps, sage-orange turkey with white wine gravy, and double-crust apple pie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2013
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Summary: Ever since Galileo Galilei first used a telescope to explore the moons of Jupiter, we've known that the planets are much more than mysterious points of light in the night sky. With the creation of incredible technologies such as space probes, giant ground-based telescopes, and Earth-orbiting observatories, we've learned that Mars once had water on its surface, that Jupiter's Great Red Spot has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523 WOOSweet, John Wood
Summary: Summer, 1793. A crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel-- the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah's and her assailant's lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 SWEBetter Homes and Gardens Books (COR)
Summary: Combines healthy recipes with strategic advice on how to lose and maintain weight, providing expert information on watching portion control, selecting healthier fats, and increasing whole-grain consumption for maximum health benefits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 BETGalvan, Ana
Summary: "A science-fiction graphic novella grounded in a familiar experience for most: spending an afternoon with our best pals over a burger and fries. But this joint has something more special than a Happy Meal: the "Once Party" menu. The "Once Party" menu, for ages 11 and up, can only be ordered once (of course). But there's a catch: not everyone who does gets the special prize. Those who do, go to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GALApa Publications Limited (COR)
Summary: Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Mandarin phrasebook and dictionary from Rough Guides' trusted language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion, and all you need to make yourself understood - and to understand others - when you're out and about in China and other Mandarin-speaking countries. With its emphasis on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides, APA Publications, (UK) Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 MANBrew-Hammond, Nana Ekua
Summary: "For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022