Bir, Sara
Summary: "The Fruit Forager's Companion is a how-to guide with nearly 100 recipes devoted to the secret, sweet bounty just outside our front doors and ripe for the taking, from familiar apples and oranges to lesser-known pawpaws and mayhaws. Sara Bir--a seasoned chef, gardener, and forager--primes readers on foraging basics, demonstrates gathering and preservation techniques, and presents a suite of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2018
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Summary: Covers important topics dealing with cat care, from providing the right diet to health to managing a breeding program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 BIRDarling, Birt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stratford House 1950
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.427 DARSummary: On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside of Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Despite conducting one of the most thorough investigations in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NINSummary: "An Honest Liar tells the story of the world-famous magician, escape artist and enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. He devised intricate invesigations exposing the 'miracles' of psychics, faith healers and con-artists. A master deceiver who came out of the the closet [at] 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HONSummary: Tells the life and love story of Argentina's most famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart. Relaying their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, their story of love, hatred and passion is transformed into unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OURSummary: Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ECHDe Blij, Harm J.
Summary: In recent years a spate of books and articles have argued that the world today is so mobile, so interconnected and so integrated that it is, in one prominent assessment, flat. But as Harm de Blij contends in The Power of Place, geography continues to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 DE BBirx, Deborah L.
Summary: "In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx--a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations--was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force andassist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she'd been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 BIRSummary: This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series "Planet Earth" examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, etc.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PLASummary: Documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus, with the help of friend and fellow-filmmaker Lucia Small, chronicles his final days as he succumbs to myelodysplastic syndrome (MLS).
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: Returning home to Montana for her high school reunion, filmmaker Kimberly Reed (previously the school quarterback and now a transgender woman) hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations (including a connection to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth), intense sibling rivalries, and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2008
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Summary: "To dowse," says the author of this definitive study of the divining art, "is to search with the aid of a handheld instrument such as a forked stick or a pendular bob on the end of a string - for anything: subterranean water flowing in a narrow underground fissure, a pool of oil or a vein of mineral ore, a buried sewer pipe or electrical cable, an airplane downed in a mountain wilderness, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitford Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.3 BIRBird, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: D. McKay Co. 1966
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633.7 BirdSummary: After returning from Auschwitz, Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, is confronted with Anne's diary. He renews ties with his daughter by reading it. The film tells the story of what he went through, how the loss of his family scarred his life, how he dealt with the dilemmas that the publication of the diary brought upon him, and how he made a memorial of his daughter's legacy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Living Color Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OTTBird, Howard
Summary: Provides information on the different forms of arthritis, all aspects of living with it, treatment options, and current research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.722 BIRBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRBird, Kai.
Summary: Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009