Summary: Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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Timerman, Jacobo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.92 ZIMJacobs
Summary: "Jacobs was a Civil War-era slave who was brutally murdered. In the present day, the author meets Jacobs's ghost and learns the story of his life as a slave, a runaway, and a vagrant in nineteenth-century America"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 DEWJacobi, Dana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 JACIacono, Sal
Summary: "Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge fund operators, and even professional wrestlers. From his early days growing up in Brooklyn and Long Island flipping baseball cards to now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IACONO, SAL IACJacoby, Karl
Summary: Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 JACJacoby, Susan
Summary: During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as a public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.7092 JACJacobi, Dana
Summary: A collection of recipes that center on fifteen leafy greens, ranging from arugula to watercress, which contain health-supporting nutrients and phytochemicals, includes recipes for dips, spreads, snacks, salads, main dishes, and drinks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 JACJacoby, Jenny
Summary: Text and illustrations presents a collection of facts about engineering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's Books 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 620 JACBallard, Jacoby
Summary: "Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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Summary: Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 JACQuart, Alissa
Summary: "Squeezed" weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutionsfor how we might change things. Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 QUACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 QUAJacoby, Richard
Summary: "What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body--in our feet, organs, and brain--why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body'snerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the damage.Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: "The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However time and again we have seen how this foundational myth, with its emphasis on individual determination, brittle self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment, does not help us....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 QUAQuiri, Patricia Ryon.
Summary: Explains why a constitution was needed; describes the convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Virginia and New Jersey plans, the Great Compromise, and the ratification process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 QUIQuiri, Patricia Ryon.
Summary: Discusses the circumstances preceding and following the writing of the Declaration of Independence and describes how it was written, approved, and announced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 QUIJacobs, Alan
Summary: As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--political, social, religious--Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 JACJacobs, Evan
Summary: Alden Nash is a video gamer. His skills have earned him elite gamer status and wealth. Currently, he ranks in the world's top 10. Then Alden's agent gets him an amazing deal to test a virtual reality game that's in secret development.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACJacobs, Michael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 JacobsJacobs, Steve
Contents: The quiet revolution -- Your return on revolution -- Drivers of sustainable high performance -- Putting behavioral leadership into practice: seven essential steps -- Game-changing plan deployment -- Coaching for elite performance -- Changing the way organizations change -- Winning on culture -- Developing behavioral leaders -- Building enterprise advantage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2013
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Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEWIS, C.S. JACJacobs, Alan
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Worlds of reading -- Sentences -- A commonplace book -- Robert Alter's fidelity -- A religion for atheists -- Bran flakes and harmless drudges -- On the recent publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works -- The poet's prose -- The brightest heaven of invention -- Opportunity costs -- The youngest brother's tale -- 2. Signs and wonders -- Reading the signs -- The secret...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9338 JACJacobs, Francine.
Summary: Follows the adventures of a manatee, or sea cow, from birth till after he leaves his mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Animal JacobsJacobs, Greg
Summary: Offers information on a variety of baseball topics, including the history of the sport, notable players, the Hall of Fame, statistics and records, and scorekeeping, and provides more than 25 puzzles and activities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2018