Goldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.13 GOLJohnson, Paul
Summary: Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin's birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist--and into the tragic flaws that later led Darwin to support the burgeoning eugenics movement.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.8 JOHSykes, Bryan
Summary: Reveals how all dogs share a common ancestry with a small group of domesticated wolves and how the vast range of canine breeds were created by a few gene mutations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.7 SYKCurtiss, Lucy Sackett.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Brewer-Borg Corp.] 1956
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 285.8746 CURKim, In-Sook
Summary: This book is about the two ways animals are born. Read the first part to learn about baby animals that hatch from eggs. Then flip the book and start reading again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big & SMALL, by arrangement with Aram Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Science KimJohnson, Paul
Summary: Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history's greatest thinkers. Socrates transcended class limitations in Athens during the fifth century B.C. to develop ideas that still shape the way we think about the human body and soul, including the workings of the human mind.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 183.2 JOHJones, Dan
Summary: Traces the fifteenth-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 942 JONSixsmith, Martin
Summary: Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEE, PHILOMENA SIXSykes, Bryan.
Summary: Sykes examines the unique fabric of the U.S. population--one of the world's most genetically variegated countries. His discoveries offer new insights into the biological profile of the great melting pot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.935 SYKCork, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 CORFurniss, John
Summary: "In this inspiring memoir, a renowned woodworker shares how he found happiness despite real-life struggles with drug addiction, anxiety, depression, financial despair, and permanent blindness caused by a failed suicide attempt at the age of sixteen. As John struggled to free himself from addiction, search for his independence, and find his purpose, he met his future wife, Anni, an artist who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. 2024
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Summary: Few events in history have been more monumental than the emergence of the Space Age, which began with the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957. During the next two decades, more than 1,600 spacecraft of all varieties were launched, mostly into the earth's orbit. In addition, twelve men walked on the moon and returned home. By the end of the 1980s, there were more than 300 operational spacecraft and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.4 FURCorliss, Richard.
Summary: Featuring more than one hundred photographs and film stills, a guide to mothers in film, presented by a film historian and critic and Turner Classic Movies, shows the many ways that Hollywood has celebrated, vilified, and poked good fun at mothers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 CORFurniss, Tim
Summary: Discusses the solar system and the planets in it, describing their location, characteristics, and moons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RAINTREE STECK-VAUGHN 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 523.2 FurniCoop, Christiana
Summary: Offers a look into 20 covetable homes designed to promote feelings of coziness, companionship, and comfort, from an intimate apartment in San Francisco to a log cabin in Wyoming, a family home in Minneapolis, and a colorful oasis in Brooklyn. With page after page of aspirational interiors, engaging interviews with home owners, and tips on creating similar feelings in any space, this eyecatching...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 COOCrook, Sandy.
Summary: Discusses the advantages of Lops as pets and explains how to care for them, housebreak them, and handle them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T.F.H. Publications 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.9322 CROPurkiss, Diane
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.062 PURCOOK, DOROTHY E., COMP.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1956
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.83 COOCurtin, Jeremiah
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 CURCOOK, DOROTHY E., COMP.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1953
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.83 COOHook, Cheryl.
Summary: Looks at the southern-most part of the Earth where freezing temperatures, snow, wind and ice dominate the landscape, and the animals and plants that inhabit it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 919.8 HOOHook, Patrick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 775 HOOCrook, Georgia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crowood Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 746.412 CROHook, Peter
Summary: The bassist for the band Joy Division, the godfathers of alternative rock who reinvented music in the post-punk era, recounts how four young men from Manchester rose from the punk scene to create music that would define a generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2013