Summary: Who is not interested in how the body works: how it grows, develops, and ages; how it goes wrong; how it has inspired artists and been the focus of ceremony and ritual? The extraordinary human body has been one of the great subjects of fascination and enquiry over the centuries. The Oxford Companion to the Body presents many of the results of this curiosity from a wide variety of viewpoints,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001
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Summary: Describes how a simple act of faith and the relationship between two families--one Israeli, one Palestinian--represents a personal microcosm of decades of Israeli-Palestinian history and symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.94 TOLNolan, Hamilton
Summary: "The thesis is simple: Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix this problem. But the labor movement of today has failed to enable enough individuals to join unions. Thus, organized labor's powerful potential is being wielded incompetently. And what is happening inside of organized labor will-far more than most people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.8 NOLRyan, Nolan
Summary: Authentic, easy-to-prepare Texas beef and BBQ recipes from Baseball Hall of Famer and cattle rancher Nolan Ryan. Legendary pitcher Nolan Ryan grew up in Texas and early on developed a passion for cattle ranching that rivaled his interest in baseball. His first cookbook offers 75 recipes for sizzling T-bone and rib-eye steaks, mouthwatering burgers, slow-cooked barbecue ribs, and more. Working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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Summary: "Ask most combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and they'll probably tell you it was war. But ask them to choose the best experience of their life, and they'll usually say it was war, too. For someone who has not been to war, this is nearly impossible to understand. The spectrum of emotions experienced by a combat veteran is far wider than that experienced in civilian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate Publishers 2019
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Summary: "Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio McCurdyNolan, Dennis
Summary: "A rhyming, nonfiction picture book about how dinosaurs evolved into birds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.9 NOLNolan, Hayley.
Summary: Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented display of passion. Quite the tragic love story, right? Wrong. In this expose, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn's life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNE BOLEYN, QUEEN NOLNowlan, Alden.
Contents: The star brides -- Three boys and the giants -- The man who hated winter -- The invisible boy -- The captive -- The snow vampire -- The chief who refused to die -- Brother to the bears -- The man who wanted to live forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lancelot Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 NOWTolan, Sandy
Summary: "In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the househe was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People TolanTOLAN, MARY
Summary: A biography of the consumer advocate who devotes his life to crusading for citizens' rights, such as safer cars, cleaner food, and truthful advertising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB NADER TOLTrotman, Jeanette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 TROWinter, Jeanette
Summary: "After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2009
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Summary: When a Red-tailed Hawk makes his home atop a high-rise building in New York City, he gains both fans and enemies, so when the tenants of the building try to have his nest removed, an historic battle ensues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Summary: Traces the author's lifelong search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to search for her biological mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Helmsman Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8882 TROWalls, Jeannette
Summary: "Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born into comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 MATWinterson, Jeanette
Summary: "Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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Summary: "From the chief architect of Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love" -- From book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.1 GASNolan, Ali
Summary: "A no-nonsense, interactive guide that empowers all women at all levels to run their strongest, best marathon ever As recently as 1966, women were forbidden to run in the marathon. Professionals-including doctors-believed it was physically impossible anddangerous for women to run more than a mile and a half. But as with many other barriers women have faced over time, we fought our way in....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021