Summary: "In distant realms far beyond the familiar solar system, an epic drama is playing out, with a cast list featuring rogue planets, colliding galaxies, and black holes more massive than a billion suns, and each character has its own extraordinary story to tell."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV UNIPaddock, Bonner.
Summary: In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements--redefining our ideas of normal and proving that life is never truly limited for any of us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADDOCK, BONNER PADPinnock, Don
Summary: Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservation. African savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent species. The Last Elephants , an homage to these animals and a clarion call for their preservation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.67 PINMaddock, Ruth.
Summary: "Hooked on Crochet is the first learn-to-crochet book to feature fashion-led projects that will capture the imagination of anyone who wants to learn from scratch, as well as inspiring those who can already crochet with a new design collection. Initially trained in fashion, author Ruth Maddock has a design-led focus and excels at designing items that are on-trend and wearable or useful in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.434 MADPinnock, Dale
Contents: Ingredients -- Recipes -- Conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 PINHaddock, Doris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 917.304 HADEaton, Jil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonEaton, Jil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breckling Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonSwaan, Wim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane 1984
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 726.6 SWAPincock, Stephen.
Summary: A four-thousand-year history of cryptography ranges from the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the present, explaining encryption's development and evolution, looking at famous codes, and offering clues for code-breaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elwin Street 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 652.809 PINHim, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIMilton, Jem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 FLYLim, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 LIMLim, Michael
Summary: The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent and penicillin. Today, in the face of urgent ecological, societal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.5 LIMJia, Zhangke
Summary: Looks at the history of Shanghai through the personal stories of eighteen people from all walks of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ILee, Jid
Summary: Presents a personal account of the author's life inspired by Korean mythology and set against a backdrop of the nation's turbulent history, tracing five generations of her family while sharing her views on such topics as Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, and Cold War-era pogroms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 LEEPaddock, Lisa Olson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.26 PADKern, Sim
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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Summary: A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 TOLHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: In 1979, Wim Wenders traveled to New York City to make a film with legendary director Nicholas Ray. As Ray lays dying of cancer, he reflects on his life and career. The resulting film tells a moving story both about friendship and a life in cinema.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIGRim, Sujean
Summary: A bird named Bob meets some new friends and learns that you cannot know if you like new things unless you try them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: A child wearing bunny ears learns of all the ways they are loved by the world. They wander through a welcoming world of sun, grass, and flowers, dancing to bird chirps, spying new friends in the clouds, and waving to waves. After hello-ing stars and giving a hello-there to the moon, the explorer finally returns to someone who loves them as deeply as all the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024