Aliu, Akim
Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALIWickens, Kim
Summary: "The dramatic true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous, Civil War-era South, despite going nearly blind, and became the most successful sire in American racing history. The early days of American horse-racing were grueling. Four-mile heats-races four miles long, run two or three times in succession!-were the norm, rewarding horses who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Sports WickensBlir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE BlirYaqub, Salim.
Contents: Part 1: Lecture l. A meeting of two worlds -- Lecture 2. Wilson & the breakup of the Ottoman Empire -- Lecture 3. The interwar period -- Lecture 4. U.S. & the Middle East during World War II -- Lecture 5. Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East -- Lecture 6. Truman & the creation of Israel -- Lecture 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East -- Lecture 8. The Suez crisis & Arab...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 YAQGoodbody, Slim.
Summary: Provides basic information on dogs and explains how their senses work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 GOOKeith, Slim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEITH, SLIM KEIIceberg Slim
Summary: This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cash Money Content 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ICEBERG SLIM ICESlim, Pamela.
Summary: Inspired by reader submissions to her blog Escape from Cubicle Nation, Slim provides everything one needs to consider before making the decision to become self-employed, from the nuts and bolts of starting a business to a full discussion of the emotional issues involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1 SLIStim, Richard.
Contents: Will you really retire? -- Start your planning (and dreaming) now -- Invest in your health -- Strengthen family ties -- Appreciate friends, old and new -- Develop lifelong interests and activities now -- Figure out your number -- Convert debt into retirement savings -- Where will the money come from? -- Growing and protecting retirement assets -- Working after retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2008
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Pickert, Kate
Summary: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 PICGoodbody, Slim.
Summary: Provides basic information on cats and explains how their senses work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008
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Summary: Provides basic information on pet rabbits and explains how their senses work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.9322 GOOSickels, Amy.
Contents: Wild about Harry -- "Quiet, freckly, short-sighted" -- Harry appears -- Half a suitcase of stories -- Bidding war -- A phenomenon in publishing -- Breaking records -- Creating Harry's world -- Harry's place in children's literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROWPickels, Dwayne E.
Summary: Examines the history of Scotland's clans by establishing their origins, probing the highpoints of their heyday, considering alignments among them, and identifying their mottoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.15 PICStim, Richard
Contents: The provisional patent application -- Deciding whether to file a provisional application : the seven hurdles -- Finding previous inventions -- Drafting the provisional patent application : Part 1: Drawing your invention -- Drafting the provisional patent application : Part 2: Describing your invention -- Filing and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legal StimStim, Richard
Summary: Whether you are in the world of business or creative arts, understanding the laws that govern your work is critical to success. But given the often convoluted terminology that surrounds patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, this isn't easy. This book explains what legal rights apply to your work, the scope of copyright protection, includes an overview of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.04 STIStim, Richard
Summary: "Get everything you need to protect and profit from your invention with this all-in-one guide. You'll learn how to show your invention to potential investors, all while protecting your rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.04 STIDickins, Rosie.
Summary: Retells the Chinese folktale in which a painter, famed for his paintings of wildlife, paints four dragons on the Emperor's temple wall, but refuses to fill in their eyes for fear they will come to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Pub. 2006
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Summary: A man with Asperger's syndrome describes what it's like to live with the syndrome and advocates for other people with the condition to help find their "Kansas," or place where they feel comfortable and at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 LIKRieckens, Scott
Summary: Is paying for your family's lifestyle burning you out? Rieckens provides a detailed profile of an alternative lifestyle known as FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early). Participants strive to retire in their 30s or 40s by living frugally, saving creatively, and investing efficiently-- instead of obsessing with maximizing wealth. Discover how others have acquired the one thing that money...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 RIEPicken, Mary Brooks
Summary: Defines more than 10,000 words related to clothing and fashion, providing over 950 illustrations and covering not only pieces of attire but also stitches, weaves, fabrics, and accessories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Lab” in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,” a Black-led organizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERLim, Louisa
Summary: "An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022