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Summary: "Take on the role of scientist and discover for yourself the key princples of chemistry, biology, and physics, with this beautifully illustrated reference book. Each project features clear, step-by-step instructions and specially commissioned artworks. Essential scientific ideas and their real-life applications are illuminated by striking photographs from around the world"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus Publishing Limited 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 507.8 CANSummary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc ICanada
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprimé par S. Derbishire et G. Desbarats 1863
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 MONTREAL Commissioners Vol. 1Call number: R GEN 929.3714 MONTREAL Commissioners Vol. 3
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprimé par G. Desbarats 1863
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 COURONNE CommissionersCaravan, Jill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Todtri 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.789 CARCaravan, Jill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.992 CARTranströmer, Tomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.71 TRATranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRATranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRABanayan, Alex
Summary: "The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure--from hacking Warren Buffett's shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.1 BANCahalan, Susannah
Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CAHCahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records--chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all--showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Cahalan tells the astonishing true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CAHALAN, SUSANNAH CAHHomans, Jennifer
Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMJedrowski, Tomasz
Summary: When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEDHomans, Jennifer.
Summary: Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 HOMHomans, John.
Summary: Journalist John Homans explores the dog's complex place in our world and how it came to be. Evolving from wild animals to working animals to nearly human members of our social fabric, dogs are now the subject of scientific studies concerning pet ownership, evolutionary theory, and even cognitive science. They are also subject to many of the same questions of rights and ethics as people, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HOMThuras, Dylan
Summary: The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventuruous Kid is an imaginative expedition to 100 weird-but-true places on earth. The authors take the reader hopscotching from country to country, not by location, but by type of attraction. For example, visit the site of the Tunguska event in Siberia, where a meteor slammed into the earth in 1908—and then skip over to the Yucatan,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.4 THUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.4 THUThoms, Susan Collins.
Summary: Retells the story of how Noah and his family built an ark, saved two of every animal, and survived the flood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2012
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE THOCahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.832 CAHToombs, Dan
Summary: "Dan Toombs has perfected the art of Indian restaurant cooking after traveling around sampling and refining recipes at home. In other words, The Curry Guy makes homemade curries that taste like the ones at your local curry house--only better. All of the classic curries are there: tikka masala, korma, jalfrezi, rogan josh, bhuna, madras, vindaloo and balti. No curry is complete without perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quadrille Publishing 2017
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Summary: One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, Apollo's Angels is the first cultural history of ballet ever written.
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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 792.8 HOMHomans, Jennifer.
Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo's Angels --the first cultural history of ballet ever written--is a groundbreaking work. From ballet's origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shufunotomo Co. 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.995 HymasLomas, Vallery
Summary: "The first Black person to win The Great American Baking Show shares her story of personal growth and more than 100 delicious recipes. Popular baking personality and lawyer turned baker Vallery Lomas was ecstatic when she learned she won the third seasonof The Great American Baking Show. However, her win was never seen by the world--Vallery's season was pulled after just a few episodes when one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2021