Baird, Bil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1965
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 GILBial, Raymond.
Summary: Discusses the nature and importance of soil and the many forms of life it supports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J577.5 BiaBiel, Steven
Summary: Presents a comprehensive examination of the classic 1930 painting "American Gothic" by artist Grant Wood, describes how it came to represent traditional American values, and how it was later used in television, politics, advertising, and popular culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BIEBing, Stanley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BINBial, Raymond.
Summary: Looks at the problem of dog overpopulation in America; discusses the role of puppy mills, pet stores, and independent breeders; and includes a profile of a local animal shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.0832 BIABing, Stanley
Summary: Presents a humorous look at the skills necessary to succeed in business, with strategies and irreverent advice for handling such situations as office politics, crisis management, presentations, group dynamics, and sensitivity training.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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Summary: "Seventeen traditional American and Chinese songs are written in artist Xu Bing's signature Square Word Calligraphy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2017
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Summary: The world's first corporate case study: A family business prospers through a productive series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then the rise of an executive class that pits one egotistical senior manager against another in senseless internal conflicts eventually leads to a long line of demented CEOs, excessive expansion, and foolish diversification--and a high cost in shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.002 BINWest, Bing.
Summary: In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days--and half of them died.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 959.704 WESBiel, Timothy L.
Summary: Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 BIECaggiano, Biba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 CAGDegn, Bibi.
Summary: "Through the charming story of Maike and her budding relationship with her Arab gelding Joarm, this handbook teaches kids how to properly interact with horses. Together with Maike, young equestrians will find out how to successfully greet, lead, groom, and mount a horse, and learn relationship-strengthening obstacle games to play on the ground and on horseback. Horse-loving kids will master...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.1 DEGBail, Christopher
Summary: This book examines how social media functions like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. It challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BAIBice, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.25 BiceBail, Murray
Summary: In order to marry Ellen Holland, a suitor must identify every species of the five hundred trees on her family's property in Australia, a test set by her possessive father. To Ellen's alarm--she is attracted to a young man--an aging suitor has nearly succeeded. By the author of Homesickness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1975
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Stratford House 1950
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Summary: The excitement you feel after hearing good news or achieving a goal is fleeting, but true happiness-that is, the warm feeling of deep contentment and joy-is lasting, and it can be yours in every moment. The Buddha's Way of Happiness is a guide to putting aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to change your life for the better, and awakening to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2010
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Summary: Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in children's food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding the conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2014
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Summary: A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 2012
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Summary: While identifying 30 new species, this field guide is replete with excellent illustrations, detailed descriptions, observation hints, and range maps. Birders and bird watchers will never look at their feathered friends in quite the same way after they encounter these freakquent fliers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 1988