Feess, James
Summary: Every year thousands of people dream about strapping on a backpack and embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure through Europe, but they are often discouraged by the perceived cost and daunting idea of traveling abroad. The Savvy Backpacker’s Guide to Europe on a Budget will help make those dreams a reality. This travel resource is the ideal guide for students, backpackers, flashpackers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1999
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Summary: "The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the cultural forces that divided both parties and powered Donald Trump into the White House. Featuring in-the-field reports as well as deep analysis, Sexton's book is not just the story of the most unexpected and divisive election in modern political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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Summary: In this ancient Mexican folktale, the Aztec Sky god and Wind god attempt to fix silence on Earth by bringing music to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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Summary: "Katya and her Meema are spending another summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen... an enormous kodiak bear with a gentle heart and a knack for fishing. But when Katya must suddenly return home to Seattle, the two are torn apart, leaving Kodi to do whatever it takes to reunite with his fragile human friend....
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2020
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Summary: "Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between the two warring sides of a civil war, a graphic novel that takes place in a world that echoes our own, but whose people have artichoke leaves instead of hair"--From publisher's web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2010
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Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENSummary: "Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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Contents: Destination Iran -- Removing the shackles -- Democracy after dark -- Nuclear pride -- "Death to America" -- The calm before the storm -- The all-night "party of God" -- Struggling for dignity -- Babies in the Ba'ath Party -- The road to Mesopotamia -- Iraqis who like us -- Waking up in the insurgency -- Epilogue : the youth party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2007
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Summary: From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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Summary: A former trader recounts the final years of Lehman Brothers, discussing the outrageous personalities of his co-workers, his own battles with mental illness, and the company's activities during the economic collapse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2011
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Summary: Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2022
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Summary: "Based on his provocative and popular New York Times op-ed, The Man They Wanted Me to Be is both memoir and cultural analysis. Jared Yates Sexton alternates between an examination of his working class upbringing and historical, psychological, and sociological sources that examine the genesis of toxic masculinity and its consequences for society. As progressivism changes American society, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019
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Summary: "We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2017 season saw the most homers ever, with 2016 and 2018 close behind, a shift that has transformed the way the game is played. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be? Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: "For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and moving to the capital of New Zealand was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove out in the middle of nowhere, it was almost too much. To get there they'd have to drive over a dangerous mountain road - and Jared was terified of heights. And them they'd have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Pony 2018
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Contents: The world of the spotted owl -- Spotted owls through the seasons -- The future of the spotted owl
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2007
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Summary: Explains to parents the common core educational standards, meant to ensure a similar level of preparedness for all students regardless of background or region, including what has changed in the classroom and the new math and English standards. --Publishers description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014
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Summary: "From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we've always told ourselves. In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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Summary: When humble dishwasher Darlis is mistaken for warrior icon Riqa, two troll siblings try to capture Darlis and hold him for ransom, with his best friend Mae getting caught in the mix-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2006