Humphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: "Half the children of the world -- the girls -- are treated unfairly because of their gender. But girls around the word are taking action. The International Day of the Girl features nine inspiring stories based on real girls' experiences with gender inequality around the word. From Brazil to Afghanistan to Canada, each story highlights issues faced by girls -- including gender-based violence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.23082 HUMHumphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Michel Chikwanine, who at age five was abducted during a schoolyard soccer game and forced to become a child soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CEXHumphries, Patrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schirmer Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, RICHARD HUMHumphries, Stan.
Summary: "What's the best way to spot the next best neighborhood? Is spring or the dead of winter the best time to put your home on the market? Do street names affect price (Swamp Road vs. Gingerbread Lane)? These are the type of real estate truisms that we all think we know the answers to, but we don't. The rules of real estate have changed dramatically in the past five years, and the old rules no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.3309 RASHumphries, Suzanne
Summary: This autobiography tells the intricate and personal story one doctor's path through medical school and out into academia, specialty medicine, and practice, having to conform to the system's standards. Like many doctors, she was on the way to becoming one of the walking dead. Then, one day she realized that policy was harming her patients, and she took a stand. This resulted in hostility and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHRIES, SUZANNE HUMHumphries, Courtney
Summary: An evolutionary and cultural history of the pigeon takes readers from the dovecotes of ancient Egypt and trenches of World War I to the pigeon-racing societies and city park benches of the modern world, in an account that explores the pigeon's role as creature that is both wild and dependent on humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.65 HUMBaur, Joe
Summary: Describes points of interest in each region of the country, providing recommendations on restaurants, hotels, shopping, entertainment, and historic sites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc. 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4251 QUHumphreys, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossing Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HUMLem, Stanisław.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 LEMWex, Michael
Summary: A humorous history of the Yiddish language from the middle ages to today traces the origins of numerous everyday terms, citing events throughout the past one thousand years that contributed to Jewish European communication practices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.1 WEXLei, Sida
Summary: I was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came and robbed me. First, they took my home, driving us out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took my family members. They tried to take me too. They tried to starve me, to wear me down with disease, to catch me stealing so that they could execute me. They tried to work me to death. But every time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sida Lei 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEI, SIDA LEILax, Eric.
Summary: For more than three decades, Woody Allen has been talking regularly and candidly with Eric Lax, and has given him singular and unfettered access to his film sets, his editing room, and his thoughts and observations. In discussions that begin in 1971 and continue into 2007, Allen discusses every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own films and the work of directors he admires. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43092 LAXHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHREYS, HELEN HUMHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left -- no matter how diminished. Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580.74 HUMLux, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LUXSEX PISTOLS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trojan Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Sex PistolsHumphreys, Debbie
Summary: What are all of the fashionable pups wearing this year? Hand-knit sweaters, of course! Knitting is a trendy hobby, and what's cuter than a dog in a sweater? Cable-knit, ribbed, raglan, chunky, turtleneck--you name it, and Redhound for Dogs has a pattern for it. You'll love the fifteen knitting projectsfourteen sweaters and one blanketranked from "one paw" for a straightforward pattern to "three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumina Media 2016
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Summary: A first book by a former Royal Navy nuclear submariner describes the daily experiences of his military life during the Cold War, a service marked by claustrophobia, disorientation, body odors, cramped conditions, and constant fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHREYS, RICHARD HUMLew, Kristi.
Summary: "Describes some disgusting, but very useful, medical treatments"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: J 610 LEWLey, Emily
Summary: Offers strategies, systems, and methods for simplifying, prioritizing, and living life intentionally, focusing on the areas of living space, style, food, scheduling, finance, hospitality, technology, self care, motherhood, and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home LeyNovials, Àlex
Summary: "Over 3,000 yaers ago, nine-year old Tutankhamun ruled over the vast empire of Egypt. He died young and was forgotten about until 1922, thanks to the discovery of his tomb filled to the roof with over 5,000 invaluable treasures. Today he is the most famous pharaoh of all! Relive the adventure of this wonderful discovery in the company of the archaeologist Howard Carter."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orange Mosquito 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey Fox Press 1976