Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Presents the true story of a pivotal moment in modern history when a group of strange, tormented geniuses--Isaac Newton chief among them--invented science and remade our understanding of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science DolnickDolnick, Edward
Summary: As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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Summary: Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill. In this rollicking narrative, author Dolnick takes us inside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2005
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Summary: "Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes. Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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Summary: "The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British Museum ever year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493 DOLMelnick, Ross.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 MELGornick, Vivian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9492 GORAlexander, Eben.
Summary: A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon's minute-by-minute account of his own near-death experience, and what he discovered in the heavenly realm beyond life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702.81 BRASen, Paul
Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Summary: "Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!). Here he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: Meet Julie - a women who suffers from periods of depression. Julie and her family help readers to understand what depression is, what it is like to feel depressed and how it can affect their family life. She explains how coping with depression can sometimes be very difficult but there is support and help available that can relieve the feelings of depression. This illustrated book is an ideal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1988
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Summary: "Healthy, home-cooked meals can play a huge role in maintaining a low-carb diet. But many people don't have the time to cook healthy meals and instead find themselves reaching for carb-loaded frozen meals or fast food. The 5-Ingredient Low-Carb Diet Cookbook makes low-carb cooking convenient, featuring 100 deliciously easy recipes made with only 5 everyday ingredients. The 5-Ingredient Low-Carb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5638 DAVGonick, Larry.
Summary: Humorous illustrations outline major events in American history, from the arrival of English colonists in 1585 through the Persian Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1991
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONAlexander, Eben.
Summary: Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.901 ALEBehn, Noel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 BEHBolick, Kate
Summary: On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 BOLBren, Paulina
Summary: "The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York to work in the dazzling new skyscrapers, they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4097 BRESen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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Summary: "A series of essays exploring the different books that shaped Gornick throughout her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020