Römer, Monika
Summary: What would the holiday season be without tins upon tins of delicious Christmas cookies? Baking during the holidays fills your home with an irresistible fragrance that moves from the oven and through every room, welcoming friends and family inside and filling you with Christmas spirit. Christmas Cookies makes it easier than ever to embrace the cheeriness of yuletide baking during the busy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ROMMaybee, Rolland Harper
Summary: A history of Michigan's lumbering era, originally published in 1960 under the direction of the Michigan Historical Commission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Michigan Dept. of State 1988
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 MAY1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4 MAY
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 MAYZgustová, Monika
Summary: "A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.45 ZGUGuzmán, Mónica
Summary: "When you think you have the answers, you need to be asking a lot more questions-and embracing fearless curiosity. In this timely, personal guide, journalist Mónica Guzmán shows why curiosity is our best policy and how you can put it to work for you immediately, sharing practical tips from the trenches of the social, political, and cultural divides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GUZCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult GuzmanMaristain, Mónica
Summary: How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to his beginnings as a poet, and to the stardom that came with the publication of the novels The Savage Detectives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOLANO, ROBERTO MARDavies, Monika
Summary: "A rattlesnake's rattle is built up over time as it sheds its skin and it shakes its rattle using tiny muscles on the sides of its tail. This is fascinating-unless you hear the deadly rattle yourself! The rattle is a warning that a venomous snake is nearby. Readers learn all about rattles and much more about rattlesnake bodies in this book. Additionally, the achievable main content includes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.96 DAVWegler, Monika.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.9322 WEGBeisner, Monika.
Summary: One hundred one riddles include old favorites and new puzzles. Full-page, color illustrations provide clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.6 BEIDavies, Monika
Summary: "With wind speeds that can reach more than 150 miles (241 km) per hour, full-blown hurricanes can uproot giant trees, cause major power outages, and inundate areas with immense amounts of rain. This engaging text, enhanced with captivating photos, will educate readers on the science behind how hurricanes form and why they can be so dangerous. Readers will also gain life-saving knowledge on ways...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 DAVSummary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRIGonick, Larry.
Summary: Humorous illustrations outline major events in American history, from the arrival of English colonists in 1585 through the Persian Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1991
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONCarper, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Association 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 691.97 CARHalper, Jeff
Summary: "Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' - whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanistan, or the subliminal war of policing and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PlutoPress 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 HALKelly, Donika
Summary: "The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KELMander, Jerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 MANMarker, Chris
Summary: In Paris after World War III, a few survivors research time travel hoping to send someone to the past to help their situation; the meditations of a world traveler on various world-wide locations are narrated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JETMinicz, Elizabeth.
Summary: Literacy level workbook and teachers edition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 MINCall number: 428.24 MIN Workbook
Mojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJCole, Tayler
Summary: Introduces readers to the most interesting aspects of the muscular system, including how muscles make the heart work and move food through the stomach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.7 COLGonick, Larry.
Summary: Here's the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve best graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from the Big Bang to Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600 to the Renaissance, The cartoon history of the world presents facts about world history in a humorous, cartoon-style format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONKayser, Éric.
Summary: Originally published in France, Maison Kayser's French Pastry Workshop provides step-by-step instruction for making dozens of classic desserts. From festive creations to simple but sophisticated fare, Kayser provides clearly written recipes and his expert insight so you can replicate his delectable creations. More than 70 recipes include his bakery bestsellers, such as raspberry macaroons,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.865 KAYMather, Cam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 MATMinicz, Elizabeth.
Summary: English -- No Problem! is focused on developing critical thinking and cultural awareness and on building language and life skills. Designed for adult and young adult English language learners with themes and issues meaningful to adults in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 MINMacher, Tom
Summary: "From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018