Close, F. E.
Summary: On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space CloseHarkness, Deborah E.
Summary: A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Time A Discovery of Witches In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich sources of inspiration behind her bewitching novels. She draws together synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and even the science behind creatures, magic, and alchemy--all with her signature historian's touch. Bursting with fascinating facts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARClose, F. E.
Summary: "Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.14 CLOFowler, Clare E.
Summary: "Offers step-by-step expert advice that empowers women to understand and overcome the conflicts they face at work with coworkers and managers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation FowlerAllen, Oliver E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 ALLHughes-Lynch, Claire E.
Summary: Advice, guidance, and solutions from a parent and teacher of children with autism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prufrock Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1982
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 453.21 LOVSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: Provides a brief history of zoology and profiles three women who are working in the field today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 SWAKinsey, Alfred C
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7081 KINSummary: Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral prodigy to racial justice firebrand to elder media statesman, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been a polarizing figure on the national stage. It is the definitive look at his life and legacy, featuring President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOUStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2002
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Summary: Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble, an imprint of Scribe Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 940.53 FRISummary: Using empty beer cans, old tires, plastic bottles and other garbage, iconoclastic architect Michael Reynolds, based in New Mexico, has been building ecologically sustainable structures for 35 years. Calling his structures "earthships," Reynolds has had conflicts with government officials over inflexible zoning and housing laws, but his architectural ideas were put to use in the Andaman Islands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morningstar Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GARTörnvall, Clara
Summary: An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When portrayed in popular culture, women on the spectrum often appear simply as copies of their male...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TORNelson, Miriam E.
Summary: Provides advice on diet, exercise, weight loss, stress reduction, and other strategies that may help prevent or reverse heart disease, and addresses patients' risks and treatment options.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.12 NELNewhard, Malinda E. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Newhard 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3772 NewhaSweet, Melissa
Summary: Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephermera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children's book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016