Marshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MARFisher, Todd
Summary: In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, occurring less than 24 hours apart. Debbie's only remaining child, Todd Fisher, somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own grief. In this book, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESFisher, Todd
Summary: In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, occurring less than 24 hours apart. Debbie's only remaining child, Todd Fisher, somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own overwhelming grief. In My girls, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain FisherCurrie, Andrea.
Summary: Offers his and hers variations on twenty-five gift and party crafts that employ a range of techniques and materials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KP Craft 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 CURCurrie, Stephen
Summary: "Though experts disagree about the specific meaning of the term digital literacy, it is usually used to refer to a variety of skills, including the ability to find content online, to create digital content, to communicate digitally, and-perhaps most important-to evaluate what is found online for accuracy and trustworthiness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004 CURCurrie, Elliott
Summary: "In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 CURCurrie, Stephen
Summary: "Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His supporters saw their candidate's ultimate victory as a triumph for their vision of America. Few political leaders in American history have had as long a career in politics and government as Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BIDMcCrae, Lyndsay
Summary: A memoir of life with an emperor penguin colony, illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography. For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth--and of the extraordinary human experience of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.47 MCCCurrie, Robin
Summary: "Inside this book, you'll find 1,000 facts about specific passages or text in the Bible as well as facts about things that happened during biblical times. The translation ... used to compile the content ... is the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NRSV)"--Foreword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Currie, Stephen
Summary: Discusses issues regarding the right to privacy and the impact of the internet, including information on identity theft, cyberbullying, secret data collection, hacking, and security breaches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 004.67 CURCurrie, Stephen
Summary: Analyzes the conditions that led to the Renaissance; examines how Greek and Roman trade routes were revitalized during the period; and explores the artwork, ideas, and scientific theories that were developed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Referencepoint Pr Inc 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.2 CURCurrie, Stephen
Summary: With no scientific knowledge to guide them, people of medieval times believed that diseases were supernatural phenomena or punishments from God. Thus medical treatments were usually primitive and often horrifying. But little by little, knowledge grewultimately leading to a more practical and scientific approach to understanding sickness and ways to treat it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CURBurnell, Cerrie
Summary: This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present. In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 30 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with disabilities, from past and present. From Frida Kahlo to Stephen Hawking, find out how these iconic figures have overcome obstacles, owned their differences and paved the way for others by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BURCURRIER, NATHANIEL
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 769.924 CURO'Brien, Lindsy
Summary: "A high-interest introduction to the life cycle of frogs, including how tadpoles develop, their insect diet, threats from predators, and the wet habitats of these backyard animals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LINLindley, Jo
Summary: "Everyone has wondered exactly what happens to poop after it is flushed down the toilet. It disappears as if by magic-- but there's a lot more going on than meets the eye! This book takes young readers through each stage of the sewage system, from the Sewer Flushers who unclog sewers to keep everything moving, to how dirty water is cleaned at the treatment plant. Furthermore, learn how sludge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing, Incorporated 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LINSummary: This film reveals the untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FANSummary: When Rodney was a teenager his mother just dropped him off at the home of Connie Stevens and left him. Eventually he landed his first show-business job as a double for Davey Jones on "The Monkeys". Rodney ended up using his skills as a consummate hanger-on and his genuine enthusiasm for rock & roll to become a central figure in the L.A. music scene and is lauded for his good taste and good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAYFaye, Lyndsay
Summary: "The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnams Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Faye 2019Landay, Lori.
Contents: Introduction : some splainin' about Lucy TV. Television in the home and the home on television : Fifties TV and Lucy TV -- Origins of I love Lucy : authorship and production contexts -- Narrative and comedic conventions and innovations of the situation comedy : the basics of Lucy TV -- Trickster Lucy : popularity, comedy, gender, and culture -- A spotlight on 1953 : Lucy TV in its cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 LANMack, Lorrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade Paperbacks 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 747.9 MACKCurlee, Lynn
Summary: "Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023