Carey, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARSummary: Summiting Mount Everest is a grueling and dangerous endeavor, known to torture the mind, body, and soul of those who even dare. When a 68-year-old great grandfather attempts this feat, what ensued was the worst disaster in mountaineering history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vision films 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCSummary: To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.06 FIGSummary: The first issues of nine of comics' most compelling new titles are collected in this shelf-busting compendium. Discover new horror, drama, fantasy, and science fiction by some of comics' top talent-- writers and artists who will draw readers into their worlds and hook them in a single issue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILSummary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HORHood, Susan
Summary: Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women--each paired with a noteworthy female artist--to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HOOBrin, Geri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 BRINguyễn, Duy
Summary: "Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion. Born into a peasant family, Duy captures the essence of village life in his poetry. Whether it is love, family, war, present or lost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.7 NGUEdic, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.3 EDISala, Enric
Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SALVuillard, Éric
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUITran, Thi Minh Phuoc
Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRAErlic, Lily.
Summary: This book describes the locations, climates, plants and animals, and conservation studies of grassland ecosystems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 by Weigl 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.4 ERLPrather, Aric
Summary: "From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 PRAVeillé, Éric
Summary: Offers humorous drawings comparing things before and after storms, meetings with elephants, and trips to the hairdresser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VEIErickson, 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 ERINguyen, Duy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.982 NGUNguyen, Duy
Summary: "132 great projects include: butterfly, elephant, vulture, cockatoo, seahorse, blue shark, octopus, giraffe, orangutan, rattlesnake, hippopotamus, stegosauraus [sic], cyclops, mermaid, unicorn, vampire bat, rodeo cowboy, Abraham Lincoln, Apache helicopter, aircraft carrier, carrier jet, Christmas candle, alien, spaceship, halloween skull, and many more!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Innovation 2010
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Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Nguyen, Nathalie
Summary: "With the huge emigration from Vietnam after its civil war, Vietnamese cuisine has become part of the mainstream of Asian food eaten by North Americans. But if you are new to it, it has delicious mysteries that this book can explain."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59597 NGUNguyen, Hoa
Summary: "A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 NGUFromm, Erich
Contents: The crisis of psychoanalysis.--Freud's model of man and its social determinants.--Marx's contribution to the knowledge of man.--Humanistic planning.--The Oedipus complex: comments on the case of little Hans.--The significance of the theory of Mother right for today.--The theory of Mother right and its relevance for social psychology.--The method and function of an analytic social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, Winston 1932
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.891 FRONguyen, Duy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 736.982 NGUNguyen, Duy
Summary: Provides techniques for creating holiday origami projects, from Halloween to Easter, including a scarecrow, witch, angel, Santa Claus, and an Easter bunny and basket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2002