Havrelock, Deidre
Summary: Spanning topics from transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies, astronomy, brain surgery, architecture, and agriculture, Indigenous Ingenuity is a wide-ranging STEM offering that answers the call for Indigenous nonfiction by reappropriating hidden history. The book includes fun, simple activities and experiments that kids can do to better understand and enjoy the principles used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 500.89 HAVBair, Deirdre
Summary: "Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running war that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL BAIBair, Deirdre
Summary: "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIR, DEIRDRE BAIBair, Deirdre.
Summary: Biography of controversial author Anaïs Nin, known for her erotic books and many affairs, especially the one with fellow writer Henry Miller, with information taken from Nin's extensive diaries and interviews with family, friends, and enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUNG, C.G BAIImus, Deirdre.
Summary: Offers parents practical suggestions on how to raise a healthy child in an increasingly toxic environment, drawing on the latest scientific and medical research to cover health issues related to children in every age group, from infancy to adolescence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 IMUDaigre, Scott
Summary: In this practical and fun guide, Tomatomania! owner Scott Daigre provides a peek into his Ojai, California, tomato patch and details a "reality gardening" approach to growing the world's favorite summer treat. Tomatomania! walks readers through every step of the tomato gardening process, from the earliest planning stages to those final satisfying kitchen table moments of the season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.642 DAIDoidge, Norman.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 DOIRunkel, Deedie
Summary: This is a story of reinvention, beginning when we turned 60. My husband and I found ourselves unemployed. Being unemployed is not that unusual in Washington, DC, but we'd never been jobless together. A mortgage, college tuition for our youngest, and our self-esteem were all in jeopardy, as we did not have a Plan B. Or a fat savings account. I wished I was an RN and David was a lawyer so we'd...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deedie Runkel 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUNKEL, DEEDIE RUNHeadon, Deirdre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragon's World 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic HeadonLangeland, Deirdre
Summary: Draws on first-person testimony to document the harrowing events of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima power plant, triggering a nightmare nuclear meltdown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.17 LANDeVore, Janna.
Summary: Presents recipes for kabobs and skewers made especially for children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.76 DEVDeVore, Jacques
Summary: "Bicycling Maximum Overload for Cyclists is a radical strength-based training program aimed at increasing cycling speed, athletic longevity, and over-all health in half the training time. Rather than improving endurance by riding longer distances, you'll learn how to do it by reducing your riding time and adding heavy strength and power training." -- From back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 DEVDeVore, Sheryl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountain Press Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 DEVDolan, Deirdre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 DOLImus, Deirdre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 IMUMask, Deirdre
Summary: "An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or enforce power. When most people think about street addresses, if they think ofthem at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.1 MASPedre, Vincent
Summary: This groundbreaking book by a top Functional Medicine specialist reveals that everything you put into your gut can either create serious digestive issues or fix them. Dr. Vincent Pedre understands gut problems firsthand. He suffered from irritable bowel syndrome for years before becoming an expert in Functional Medicine and learning how to heal his body through food. Dr. Pedre drew from his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 PEDDoidge, Norman.
Summary: An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were improved through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 Doidge 2011Doidge, Norman.
Summary: A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 HEILe Faye, Deirdre
Summary: In this richly illustrated book, Deirdre Le Faye explores and evokes country life in Jane Austen's day, offering new perspectives on her life and work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 LEFLovecky, Deirdre V.
Contents: The gifted child -- Attention deficits: attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Attention deficits: Asperger syndrome -- Cognitive issues: how those with a different mind think -- Finding flow: the wellspring of creative endeavor -- Emotional intelligence and emotional giftedness -- Social cognition and interpersonal relationships -- Moral development: moral reasoning and compassion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8588 LOVMichels, Heide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 1997