Summary: Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, saved nearly 300 Jews during the Second World War. This is a poignant documentary that is an extraordinary true story about the humanitarian spirit, as exemplified by two people who, with enormous personal risk to themselves, faced the most challenging circumstances with bravery and decency. In 1965, Jan and Antonina Zabinski...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OFVolger, Lukas
Summary: "Flavorful vegetarian versions of America's favorite one-dish meals: ramen, pho, bibimbap, dumplings, and burrito bowls A restorative bowl of vegetarian ramen sent Lukas Volger on a quest to capture the full flavor of all the one-bowl meals that are the rage today--but in vegetarian form. With the bowl as organizer, the possibilities for improvisational meals full of seasonal produce and herbs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5631 VOLLukas, Albert
Summary: Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right. Showcasing African American contributions to American cuisine, the café offers favorite dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, adding modern flavors and contemporary twists on classics. With African, Caribbean, and European influences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 LUKRieppel, Lukas
Summary: A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest businesstycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.75 RIEVolger, Lukas
Summary: An innovative approach to vegetarian cooking, allowing you to use what you already have on hand to make great meals. Starts with just a few ingredients--sweet potatoes, tortillas, eggs, cabbage, hearty greens, beans, winter squash, mushrooms, tofu, summer squash, and cauliflower, which Volger advises readers to stock up on. Home chefs can throw in their own variations and favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 VOLLukas, Christopher.
Contents: Introduction: Lukas's story -- What happens to the survivor after someone commits suicide -- Emotional reactions to suicide -- A family's story -- The bargain : a deal we make with life -- Bargains : the long good-bye -- Bargains : scapegoating -- Bargains : "I am guilty; I am a victim" -- Bargains : cutting off -- Bargains : a miscellany -- The saddest bargain : "because you died, I'll die" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 LUKVolger, Lukas
Summary: "The author of Start Simple redefines "dinner" in this creative cookbook that elevates snacks and grazing foods to main-course status, filled with 100 recipes and 75 color photos."--Amazon.com. "We've all been there. Pressed for time, patience,or the will to cook yet another meal, we turn to eating snacks for dinner. While these "meals" are often thrown together, there is no denying that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.53 VOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook VolgerChayka, Kyle
Summary: "From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: "This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 LEKChayka, Kyle.
Summary: "Kyle Chayka is one of our sharpest cultural observers. After spending years covering minimalist trends for leading publications, he now delves beneath this lifestyle's glossy surface, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. He shows that our longing for less goes back further than we realize. His search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON LUCLukacs, John
Summary: "The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with or to continue the war against Hitler. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's new book." "Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.532 LUKLukacs, Paul (Paul B.)
Summary: Describes the 8,000 year history of wine, chronicling the changes that have taken place in preparation and taste as the ancient world gave way to the scientific, industrial, social and ideological revolutions of modern times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 LUKLukas, J. Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.6 LUKLukas, J. Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 LUKLekas Miller, Anna
Summary: "Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 LEKLukes, Bonnie L.
Summary: Historical examination of the aftermath, including the trials, of the Boston Massacre of 1770.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3113 LukesLukacs, Paul (Paul B.)
Contents: Introduction: Doubtless as good -- Eastern dreams -- California gold -- Wine as booze -- First families -- Machines in the garden -- Small is beautiful -- Beyond California -- The Rise of American cuisine -- The World comes knocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 LUKBessire, Lucas
Summary: "This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 BESLucas, Edward
Summary: A senior Economist writer argues that the Kremlin's spymasters have excelled in their field beyond the capabilities of their Western-world adversaries, tracing the story behind the 2010 deportation of Anna Chapman while analyzing triumphs and disasters in Western intelligence throughout the Cold War as revealed by a leading Russian NATO spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 LUCLucas, Gary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LucasRiera, Lucas
Summary: Presents nineteen true stories of extraordinary canine heroes, who can each teach a lesson to us all, as they help the elderly, unhoused people, prisoners, the police department, the fire brigade and mountain rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orange Mosquito 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1999