Nossack, Hans Erich
Summary: One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for, what had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 NOSHuang, Al Chung-liang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 HUAMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Summary: An abridged production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute for television.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Opera 2006
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MAGChang, David
Summary: "The globally renowned chef of Momofuku, star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious, and bestselling author of Eat a Peach now shares the kitchen hacks and culinary tricks he uses as a new home cook for a growing family--and shows the rest of us how to make the most of our cooking skills. Being a chef can make you the absolute worst kind of home cook. Either you're too fussy when dinner just needs to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 CHAColombo, Luann
Summary: "In Uncover the Human Body, a fascinating three-dimensional presentation allows in-depth, hands-on exploration of the most amazing machine in the world--you. This unique "model" can be deconstructed and rebuilt layer by layer, system by system, just by turning the page, so the reader can see how each part of the body is connected to the others. The complexities of the human body can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. Flying for the CIA's secret airline was a dream come true. Air America's operations were unknown. Its schedules were irregular. Its pilots were shadow people. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. I had already been a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Publishing Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War HansenKim, Eric
Summary: "An homage to what it means to be Korean American with more than 85 delectable recipes that explore how new culinary traditions can be forged to honor both your past and your present. New York Times staff writer Eric Kim grew up in Atlanta, the son of twoKorean immigrants. Food has always been central to his story, from Friday-night Korean barbecue with his family to hybridized Korean-ish meals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.549519 KIMReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2007
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 398.2 KIMChang, Jung
Summary: A portrait of the nineteenth-century empress covers the coup that made her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities, and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CIXI, EMPRESS CHASummary: Wonderwoman, Thief Catcher, and Invisible Girl team up to battle the baby stealing Demon-Lord of the Underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HERSanchez, Ericka
Summary: From the author of Aguas Frescas & Paletas comes another collection of over 100 Mexican recipes with a unique spin, delivering the authentic flavors everyone craves, but swapping in easy-to-find, healthful ingredients your family will love. From breakfasts and salsas to meatless meals and special recipes for Dia de Los Muertos and other special occasions, ¡Buen Provecho! is the perfect cookbook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 SANSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIMarques, Luana.
Summary: In Almost Anxious, Luana Marques, Ph.D., describes the spectrum of almost anxiety symptoms, from normal situational anxiety on one end to a full-blown diagnosable anxiety disorder on the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 MARHuang, Eddie
Summary: A Taiwanese-American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUANG, EDDIE HUAHuang, Laura
Summary: "Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio / Penguin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HUAErickson, Erick
Summary: Offers ten open letters directed to the author's children, penned after he learned that both he and his wife faced grave medical issue, addressing life's enduring values and offering practical, inspirational, and spiritual advice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 ERINewman, Ericka
Summary: I never would have thought I’d be living in this moment, who woulda thought so much pain would bring me so much joy, But I healed myself, I learned to love myself, I’m not perfect never wanted to be and this is proof of all my flaws and imperfections. I’ve been used judged and mistreated. I’ve been played on and preyed upon and here I am still standing. As you read these words, and flip through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ericka Newman 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NEWMAN, ERICKA NEWChang, Jung
Summary: The most famous sisters in China, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power during a time of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations. Red Sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen; Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Big Sister, Ei-Ling, became Chiang's unofficial main adviser, and made herself one of China's richest women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CHAHwang, Caroline
Summary: "Manage anxiety, insomnia, and more with this easy-to-use beginner's guide to making your own CBD-infused drinks, snacks, and topical products"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6 HWAStabile, Enrica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryland Peters & Small 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.213 WATHuang, Nellie
Summary: "Tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks [to] re-create history's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Summary: Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAO ZEDONG CHAChang, Jung
Summary: Jung Chang describes how her mother inspired her to write the book, Wild swans, in which she tells the story of three Chinese women, her grandmother, her mother, and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991