Nixon, David
Summary: In 1984 President Ronald Reagan gave NASA the go-ahead to build a Space Station. A generation later, the International Space Station is an established and highly successful research centre in Earth orbit. The history of this extraordinary project is a complex weave of powerful threads - political, diplomatic, financial and technological among them - but none is more fascinating than the story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Circa Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.442 NIXNixon, Kari
Summary: "For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 NIXNixon, Kelsey.
Summary: Shares a full-color array of one hundred essential recipes, including grilled fruit skewers with chili and lime, steak and pepper stir-fry, and fudge mint brownies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.3 NIXNixon, Madeline
Summary: Mako sharks are known for their speed. They swim faster and jump higher than any other shark. Find out more in Mako Shark, one of the titles in the Sharks series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.3 NIXNixon, Madeline
Summary: Hammerhead sharks are named for their unusually shaped heads. Great hammerheads are the largest of the nine different types of hammerheads. Find out more in Hammerhead Shark, one of the titles in the Sharks series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.3 NIXSummary: From the sword of Excalibur to the Lady Guinevere, Camelot has been the subject of myths and legends, movies, and best-sellers. Investigates the secrets of Camelot, the literature of the legend, and the historical sites associated with King Arthur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CAMSummary: Killing one third of Europe's population in just three years and ravaging the flourishing cities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and Spain, the Black Death swept across the continent at an inconceivable rate. Through chilling reenactments, interviews with experts and historians, and excerpts from original accounts, discover the origins, progress, and cultural repercussions of the Plague's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLAMixon, Myron.
Summary: "The secret to the best barbecue from the man who barbecues the best: Keep it simple! In the world of competitive barbecue, nobody's won more prize money, more trophies, or more adulation than Myron Mixon. And he comes by it honestly: From the time he was old enough to stoke a pit, Mixon learned the art of barbecue at his father's side. He grew up to expand his parent's sauce business, Jack's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 MIXNixon, Lindsay S.
Summary: "After vegan chef Lindsay S. Nixon wrapped up her popular cookbook The Happy Herbivore Cookbook last year, she went back to her kitchen in her new home of St. Maarten. Island living encouraged her to come up with simpler recipes, which led her to create a follow-up cookbook with a focus on recipes that bring tasty back to quick-and-easy. Now, in Nixon's much-anticipated follow-up cookbook,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 NIXNihon Vōgusha
Summary: "How to Embroider Almost Every Cute Thing includes more than 500 supercute, sweet, and little embroidery motifs for just about everything you could ever want to depict with needle and thread. From cheeseburgers and chihuahuas to earmuffs and exercise equipment, among the many charming motifs are flowers, food, animals, clothing, vehicles, sports and hobbies, letters, numbers, and decorative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2022
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Summary: "Based on recent groundbreaking studies that will change the way parents feed their children, Allergy-Free Kids is a revolutionary guide to preventing food allergies. When her infant daughter was diagnosed with life-threatening food allergies, Robin Nixon Pompa found Dr. Gideon Lack, a clinical researcher on the verge of a breakthrough in allergy prevention and treatment that would heal her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.9 POMSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East,"--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 BRICoxon, Michele.
Summary: Join the small kitten on its travels around the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starbright Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 CoxNicol, Gloria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 NicolVaughn, Carrie
Summary: "We will hold an archery contest. A simple affair, all in fun, on the tournament grounds. Tomorrow. We will see you there." The latest civil war in England has come and gone, King John is dead, and the nobility of England gathers to see the coronation of his son, thirteen year old King Henry III. The new king is at the center of political rivalries and power struggles, but John of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAUPixton, Kaaren.
Summary: The bond between mothers and babies are demonstrated with colorful pictures of animals and their young ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDTizon, Alex.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TIZON, ALEX TIZVaughn, Daniel.
Summary: "... a rollicking journey through the heart of Texas Barbecue. From brisket to ribs, beef to pork, mesquite to oak, this fully illustrated, comprehensive guide to Texas barbecue includes pit masters' recipes, tales of the road--from country meat markets to roadside stands, sumptuous photography, and a panoramic look at the Lone Star State, where smoked meat is sacred."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5784 VAUBigon, Mario.
Summary: Here is an entirely different kind of knot book! For the first time, here are step-by-step instructions that take full advantage of color photography to teach the art of tying knots. Unlike illustrations in other books, these pictures show every step looking over the shoulder of the tier -- the way you see the knot as you make it. And when two or more ropes are involved, they are color coded so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8 BIGUnion, Gabrielle
Summary: "We're Going to Need More Wine... plus a few shots-acclaimed activist, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Union is back with an even more intimate, revealing, and powerful collection of essays"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNION, GABRIELLE UNIGatsos, Nikos
Summary: Nikos Gatsos's profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem Amorgos ', named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. It is a wonderful incantation on the theme of loss and hope - a unique blend of surrealism, symbolism and folk song - lyrical and erotic, sometimes celebratory, sometimes bitter. It was much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anvil Press Poetry 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 489.3 GATHasler, Nikol.
Summary: Discusses all aspects of sexuality and sexual behavior, including sexual orientation, masturbation, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases, and answers teenagers' questions on sex in a straightforward and in-depth manner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613.9071 HASNixey, Catherine
Summary: Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages. "A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of intellectual darkness. In Harran, the locals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018