Blackwell, Andrew
Summary: A tour of the world's most environmentally compromised regions provides satirical analysis of "destinations" ranging from hidden bars and convenience stores to radioactive wildernesses and the waters of India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.73 BLABlackwell, Chris
Summary: "Chris Blackwell, like the paradigm-shifting artists he came to support over his sixty-plus years in the music business, never took the conventional route. He grew up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol Flynn. After being expelled from an elite British school for rebellious behavior in 1954 at age seventeen, he moved back to Jamaica, and within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACKWELL, CHRIS BLABlackwell, Lewis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.34 BLAAwada, Dounya
Summary: "Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little Dounya wanted nothing less than to be perfect, like her mother. She pushed herself hard every day, excelling in schoolwork and at home. She had to be the cutest, prettiest, smartest girl in the room....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AWABracewell, Michael
Summary: In 1972 an English rock band released its first album to instant critical acclaim: Roxy Music. Here was a group that looked as though it came not only from another era, but also from another planet-a band in which art, fashion, and music would combine to create, in Bryan Ferry's words, "above all, a state of mind." Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all those involved,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 BRAHaulsey, Kuwana
Summary: The author reveals the life lessons her infant son taught her and how motherhood awakened her sense of personal awareness, in a work that combines memoir and spirituality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 HAUKawano, Kenji
Summary: During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northland Pub. Co. 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5403 KAWEyre, Makana
Summary: Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, this powerful story recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewicz after an unlikely friendship with a Jewish conductor in Sachsenhausen who tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KULISIEWICZ, ALEKSANDER TYTUS EYRBurke, Tarana
Summary: "From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago’s Peterson Garden Project and a board member of the American Community Gardening Association, has worked in the community gardening trenches for years and brings her knowledge to the wider world in Start a Community Food Garden. This hardworking guide covers every step of the process: fundraising, community organizing, site sourcing, garden design and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Inc. 2014
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Summary: Returning to the Parisian suburb of Le Vesinet to make peace with her childhood, during which wonder gave way to anxiety and deep depression, the author, through a series of essays, reveals how the magic of seemingly ordinary objects helped her survive when she felt like she was losing control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LACAVA, STEPHANIE LACMarques, Luana.
Summary: In Almost Anxious, Luana Marques, Ph.D., describes the spectrum of almost anxiety symptoms, from normal situational anxiety on one end to a full-blown diagnosable anxiety disorder on the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 MARKysar, Alana
Summary: In this gorgeous collection of eighty-five fresh and sunny recipes, Maui native and popular food blogger Alana Kysar takes you into the homes, restaurants and farms of Hawai'i.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59969 KYSLewan, Todd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.91 LEWWalter, Dawna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conran Octopus 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.16 WALTornabene, Ladona
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Publications, Inc. 1996
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 TORMarkova, Dawna
Summary: "We are living in a hinge time when the way that we think, interact, and innovate at work is rapidly changing. In the past, "Marketshare" companies dominated, ruled by hierarchy and top-down leadership. Today, the new market leaders are "Mindshare" companies, where influence is more important than power and success relies on collaboration and the ability to inspire. Markova and McArthur believe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 MARAkana, Anna
Summary: "From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin to heal was comedy. So she began making YouTube videos as a form of creative expression and as a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AKANA, ANNA AKAArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARABokhari, Raana.
Summary: Features the traditions, teachings and texts central to the religion and discusses the significance of holy sites, prayer and pilgrimage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hermes House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 BOKBlackall, Sophie
Summary: In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.91 LEWMarques, Luana
Summary: "A Harvard-based psychotherapist presents a clinically-proven three-step method to overcome anxiety and achieve goals that is based on the lessons she learned growing up in poverty in Brazil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MARLaBan, Elizabeth.
Summary: No longer content to sit on rockers and bake cookies, today's grandparents are involved in the lives of their grandchildren more than ever before. The Grandparents Handbook features dozens of activities that will guarantee hours of fun, educational quality time—from building dollhouses and catching fish to flying kites, baking bread, making your own mini golf course, creating a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2009