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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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSeo, Bo
Summary: "When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not speak English, and, unsurprisingly, struggled at school. But, then, in fifth grade, something happened to change his life: he discovered competitivedebate. Immediately, he was hooked. It turned out, perhaps counterintuitively, that debating was the perfect activity for someone shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.53 SEOClaiborne-West, Joyce
Summary: "Amy knows how to listen to her head and to her heart--and most importantly, when to listen to which. Amy Coney Barrett is one of the busiest women in America. Along with being a United States Supreme Court justice, she is also the mother of seven children, two of whom she adopted from Haiti. And she insists on baking all their birthday cakes herself. Not just because she has a flair for fancy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heroes of Liberty Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARBen-Joseph, Eran
Summary: As the number of passenger cars in the world increases daily, so too does Earth's supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint--but their design and function has not been rethought since the 1950s. Here, urban designer Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for parking's future--aesthetically pleasing, environmentally and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 BENHakim Bey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autonomedia 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 HAKBoo, Katherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.5 BOOBayh, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guild Press/Emmis Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.2 BAYBoo, Katherine.
Summary: Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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Summary: "One day, everything was exactly as it was supposed to be. And the next, the closest thing Abby ever had to a sister, Noreen, was just... gone. Distracted by the annual preparations for the Samhain festival, Abby's classmates are quick to put Noreen's disappearance aside. The Coven will find her, Abby's friends say. They have it under control. But Abby can't let it go. Soon a search for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BOORoop, Connie.
Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROOGee, Henry
Contents: Preface : no more missing links -- An unexpected party -- All about evolution -- Losing it -- The Beowulf effect -- Shadows of the past -- The human error -- The way we walk -- The dog and the atlatl -- A cleverness of crows -- The things we say -- The way we think -- Afterword : the tangled bank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 GEEGee, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Earth GeeGee, Henry.
Summary: Discusses what can be understood through human genome sequencing, describes how the interactions of genes direct the growth of individuals, and reveals what gene research will enable in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.935 GEESeo, Bo-Hyeon
Summary: Have you seen the full moon? What about the crescent moon? The moon rises every evening but its shape seems to change little by little, every night. What is the real shape of the moon? Do you want to find out?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big & Small 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEOSeo, Bo-hyun
Summary: Demonstrates the importance of electricity and electrical devices in everyday life and explains where electricty comes from and how it gets from the power plant to the socket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TanTan Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 SEOEven, Aaron Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEBorgeson, Bet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 BORBorgeson, Bet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 BORBrazelton, Bev
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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 BRADavis, Bek
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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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BRAOrtiz, Bev.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday Books in association with Rick Heide 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 392.37 ORTVan Noy, Rick
Summary: In the spirit of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder, Rick Van Noy journeys out of his suburban home with his children and describes the pleasures of walking in a creek, digging for salamanders, and learning to appreciate vultures. Through these and other "walks to school," the Van Noys discover what nature has to teach and why this matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2008