Brennan, Francis
Summary: Presents an introduction to elephants, discussing their bodies, families, eating and bathing habits, and evolution, briefly explains why elephants are becoming scarce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.67 BRESummary: In a laboratory, a team of engineers create a replica of Beijing's Forbidden City to uncover the secrets underlying its ability to withstand earthquakes over the centuries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECBrennan, Georgeanne
Summary: Celebrating Seussian cuisine, this humorous cookbook features an abundance of recipes including green eggs and ham, goose juice, Kartoom croquettes, and noodle-eating poodle noodles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.4 FURBrenner, Marie
Summary: "A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis - based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting - that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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Summary: From flip-flops and hide and seek to fireworks and ice-cream trucks, there is something for everyone in this bright and buoyant celebration of the summer season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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Summary: Explores the roots of the Christmas tree tradition, tracing customs from the Middle Ages to the present day to reveal how it first became part of mainstream American culture and has since become popular worldwide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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Summary: Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 844.914 CHERenner, Michelle
Summary: In honor of her grandmother, who passed away, Annie does her first dance at potlatch in her Yupik Eskimo village. Based on a Yupik Eskimo tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1995
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Summary: When Frank Faunce looks at the Church, he sees a sleeping giant full of men and women who think that they are born again simply because they repeated a simple prayer years ago. What these people have never learned, Faunce submits, is that Jesus wants to be both Lord and Savior, that either He or Ego will occupy first place in any human's heart. As the author cleverly states, there is not room...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Publishing, Inc. 2015
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Summary: Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations, open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world, now published here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 FraBrenner, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 BREBrennen, Carlene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST BREFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In "The Church of Mercy," readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, this is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in the future of the Catholic Church in this urgent call to believers of all generations to work together to build a better world. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church and become one of the most popular global leaders. Now, in this extraordinary interview with journalist Thomas Leoncini, His Holiness reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023
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Summary: In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart -- mercy -- which has long been the cornerstone of his faith and is now the central teaching of his papacy. In this conversation with Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli, Francis explains --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRABrenner, Michael
Summary: "In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 BREBrenner, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.26 BRERABELAIS, FRANCOIS
Contents: Francois Rabelais:Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1952
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Summary: Traces the history of genealogy in the United States, from its early preoccupation with social status and lineage, to a nineteenth-century search for Anglo-Saxon roots, to a twentieth-century acceptance of diversity and the introduction of DNA technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2013