Doctorow, E. L.
Contents: Genesis -- E.A. Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom -- Composing Moby-Dick: what might have happened -- Sam Clemens's two boys -- Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith -- Fitzgerald's Crack-Up -- Malraux, Hemingway, and the Spanish Civil War -- Dos Passos: U.S.A -- Harpo -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Arthur Miller -- Franz Kafka's Amerika -- W.G. Sebald -- Einstein: seeing the unseen -- ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.4 DOCDoctoroff, Daniel L.
Summary: Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff led New York's dramatic and unexpected economic resurgence after the September 11 terrorist attacks. With Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he developed a remarkably ambitious five-borough economic development plan to not only recover from the attacks but to completely transform New York's economy: New neighborhoods were created. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 DOCThomas, E. L. (Erin L.)
Summary: Rolled and Told Vol. 2 provides hours of pick-up-and-play campaigns designed both for players new to tabletop role playing and for those who have played for years. Every page is filled with beautiful illustrations, comics coinciding with adventures, and splash art from your favorite comic artists to inspire your players! Stop dueling gnomes in of "A Tale of Two Gnomes," go on a solo adventure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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Summary: Follows the seasons from winter through autumn in the boreal forests, or taigas, that cover the northern parts of Eurasia and North America, highlighting their weather and the plants and animals that live there, and discusses their role in the water and carbon cycles, and the effects of climate change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.3 CARThomas, E. L. (Erin L.)
Summary: Rolled & Told is an all-inclusive gaming experience! Each and every month, we brought you a ready-to-play, fun adventure for one of your favorite tabletop role-playing games. And now the first 7 full & 6 mini adventures are collected here! These pages are packed with beautiful illustrations, comics coinciding with each adventure to excite and inspire your players, and helpful articles sure to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Forge, LLC 2019
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Summary: "What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities. With a backbone rooted in primordial imagery and allegory, and a focus on how the growing disconnect with our own wants, needs, and fears creates deeper divides in our relationships, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 BOWSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTMODESITT, L. E.
Summary: The hero is a professor who specializes in ghost technology, which a foreign power is trying to steal. Ghosts are part of everyday life in an alternative North America, split into New France, the Mormon-ruled Desert and Dutch Columbia, the professor's country.
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODNorry, E. L.
Summary: "As a lawyer and political activist, he led the fight for equality for all in his homeland, and despite being imprisoned unfairly for many years, he became the first black president of South Africa"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People MandelaKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1967
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.0226 MCCMarsh, E. L. (Edith Louise)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fleming Pub. Co. 1931
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 973.318 MARHirsch, Rebecca E.
Summary: "As the sun sets, night creatures awaken to hunt, fly, race, leap, and more. A mother and child camp out in their rural backyard among the nocturnal animals in this evocative and informative picture book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.5 HIRHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOLJohnson, Rebecca L.
Summary: Explains what cells are, how they divide, and what they do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.6 JOHAlexander, Larry
Summary: Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers, an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company, 101st Airborne, during World War II. Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sergeant Forrest Guth, Alexander crosses an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ALESummary: Essential, comprehensive, and easy to use, the revised edition of National Geographic Complete Birds of North America is an astonishing resource that covers every bird species found in North America as well as all the seasonal visitors. Entries are organized by family group, the taxonomic organization newly updated to match current American Ornithologists' Union guidelines. Within a family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACVlassara, Helen
Summary: Imagine naturally occurring toxic substances that are responsible for chronic disease and accelerated aging. When trying to discover why patients with diabetes are prone to complications such as heart disease, Dr. Helen Vlassara and her research team focused on compounds called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs, which enter the body through the diet. For years, these amazing studies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 VLAHitchcock, Darcy E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Earthscan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4083 HITSummary: "What price conscience? Abigail Disney's directorial debut, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. The film tracks Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, who breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ARMBarnes-Svarney, Patricia L.
Summary: Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2015