Davey, Owen
Summary: Shares information on different types of cats, including lions, jaguars, and tigers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599 DAVDavey, Owen
Summary: "Did you know that penguins can hold their breath for over half an hour? Or that they can swim four times faster than an Olympic swimmer? Dive into this illustrated guide to our feathered friends, full of facts on penguins and the many places they live!" --Provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J598.47 DAVMcKean, Dave
Summary: "A graphic novel based on the life of Paul Nash, a surrealist painter during World War 1"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCKDavey, Owen
Summary: Presents a look at octopuses, describing their physical characteristics, habitats, behavior, and the current efforts by scientists to protect them from pollution and climate change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 594.56 DAVMcKean, David
Summary: "A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put,holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MCKTalty, Stephan
Summary: The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him. At the height of the Vietnam War, few...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 959.704 TALOwen, Mark
Summary: An account of the most personally meaningful missions from Owen's thirteen years as a SEAL, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates, in both success and failure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.009 Owen 2014Darby, Jean
Summary: Traces the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr., focusing on facts that are not as widely known.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINOwen, Mark
Summary: Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 OWEONeal, Anthony
Summary: "What every parent needs to know in order to pay cash for college. Most people believe that student loans are the only way to pay for college. That's why we have a $1.5 trillion student loan crisis in the US and over 40 million Americans are saddled with student loan debt. But there is another way. Debt Free Degree teaches parents how their kid can graduate from college without debt, even if...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ramsey Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.3 ONESummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREHolub, Joan
Summary: Learn all about artists who changed history in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for creators-in-training!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HOLContents: Start -- Can -- Damo Suzuki's network -- Floh de Cologne -- Kraftwerk -- Krautwerk -- Floh de Cologne -- Neu! -- La Düsseldorf -- Japandorf -- faUSt -- Wume.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KRAOwen, David
Summary: Upending the environmentalist viewpoint that urban areas are "anti-green," New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that sustainability is achieved in areas like New York City, while open space, backyard compost heaps, locavorism and high-tech gadgetry like solar panels and triple-paned windows are formulas for wasteful sprawl and green-washed consumerism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 OWEOwen, Mark.
Summary: For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 OWENS, MARK OWEOwen, Mark.
Summary: Examines the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military, and describes previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.1047 OWECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 OWEN, MARK OWEOwen, David
Summary: The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551 OWEHornfischer, James D.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HorVuong, Ocean
Summary: "Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.2 SOBAlmond, David
Summary: A dark, powerful and moving short story from the internationally acclaimed author of Skellig. Joe Quinn tells everyone about the poltergeist in his house, but no one believes him. No one that is, except for Davey. He's felt the inexplicable presence in the rooms, he's seen random objects fly through the air. And there's something else ... a memory of his beloved sister, and a feeling deep down...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALMBlumenthal, Heston
Summary: Well, it's full of Heston's typically brilliant, delicious and inventive recipes, including green gazpacho, beetroot and pea salad, quinoa with vegetables, Moroccan pasties, hemp panna cotta, banana and parsley smoothie, tomato and coffee muffins, parsnip granola, rice ice cream, sherry vinegar posset, cricket ketchup and thyme and orange kombucha, not forgetting popcorn chicken with real...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BLUDawkins, Richard
Summary: The author of "The God delusion" addresses key scientific questions previously explained by rich mythologies, from the evolution of the first humans and the life cycle of stars to the principles of a rainbow and the origins of the universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011