Jentleson, Adam
Summary: "An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 JENAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWAJentleson, Bruce W.
Summary: "Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 JENAdamo, Courtney
Summary: Explains human reproduction, including how an egg is fertilized, when the baby starts kicking, and at what point the baby can hear people talking to it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 618.2 ADAAhmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMNuchi, Adah
Summary: This girl-powered book about puberty is written in the voice of counselors in training at the fictional Camp Silver Moon. This fictionalized nonfiction diary-style guide follows nine 12-year-old girls at a summer camp is like having a best friend or older sister who shares everything there is to know about being comfortable in your chasing body so you can survive and thrive through puberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 612.6 NUCRadam, Brian
Summary: "If chosen correctly and properly maintained, a high-quality lawnmower should provide many years of trouble-free service. This extensively illustrated, step-by-step practical manual provides the reader with advice on how to choose the best mower for their needs, and how to carry out DIY maintenance to keep it in tip-top condition, saving on potentially expensive professional servicing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.4 RADAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaAlda, Alan
Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSSELL, BILL GOUPenilla, Adan R
Summary: "Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wonderful world of sign language. American Sign Language For Dummies offers you an easy-to-access introduction so you can get your hands wet with ASL, whether you're new to the language or looking for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2017
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Summary: A collection of games, crafts, songs, recipes, and social events that recreate colonial times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acropolis Books 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793 STRCalhoun, Ada
Summary: Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate moments from her own married life with frank insight from experts, clergy, and friends, she upends expectations of total marital bliss to present a realistic-but ultimately optimistic-portrait of what marriage is really like.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8 CALCalhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALHOUN, ADA CALLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMAtassi, Anas
Summary: "Exploring the connection of food and culture. The Syrian kitchen, shaped by influences from neighboring countries, has deep historical roots and evolved to perfection over thousands of years. Sumac is filled with traditional and contemporary Syrian recipes that were inspired by personal stories. The gorgeous photography illustrates how beautiful this country was and still is, and family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 641.595691 ATACohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohAbram, Carolyn.
Summary: Ready to get active on Facebook but no clue where to start? This bestselling guide gets you started! So you've finally decided to join the "social network." Maybe you've got a Facebook account, but want help navigating the site. This handy guide tells you how to get started, set up your Profile, find friends, protect your privacy, and much more.Discover how Facebook helps you make new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012
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Adee, Sally
Summary: Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity--the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing--its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 ADEAida, Yu.
Summary: When new children are brought into the Social Welfare Agency, their minds are wiped and their bodies enhanced with the latest in cutting edge cybernetics. They are blank slates ready to be molded and conditioned as their handlers see fit. Yet for Angelica, the first of the Agency's cyborg assassins, memories of the life she once knew have started to return. Dreams of her childhood fills her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNAmeri, Anan
Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017