Raden, Aja
Summary: An account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history shares insights into the role of precious gemstones in triggering cultural movements, political dynasties, and wars, while exploring how jewels reflect darker aspects of human nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.59 RADRaden, Aja
Summary: "Decoding how we behave, Aja Raden's The Truth About Lies illuminates situations where we are better off lying-to ourselves and at times to others-and why it can be a healthy psychological mechanism. Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177 RADAli, Nadia
Summary: "Animals are busy! Sea dragon fathers care for babies. Eagle parents build giant nests. Sea lions stand guard for one another. In every animal community, animals have jobs to do, just like people! Accessible and fun K-3 level information reveals the animal world to young readers and researchers in this Pebble Explore title from the Animal Societies series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.5 ALIAgha, Shahid Ali
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 AGHCalhoun, Ada
Summary: Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate moments from her own married life with frank insight from experts, clergy, and friends, she upends expectations of total marital bliss to present a realistic-but ultimately optimistic-portrait of what marriage is really like.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8 CALRash, Andy
Summary: "After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it. They drive to the perfect campsite, not wanting to miss the couple of minutes when the sun will be completely hidden by the moon. When the moment happens, being together makes it even more special. Based on a trip that author-illustrator Andy Rash took with his son to see the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RASAgha, Shahid Ali
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 AGHCalhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALHOUN, ADA CALLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMDevlukia-Shetty, Radhi
Summary: "A clinical dietician with a holistic approach to wellbeing presents 125 plant-based recipes to balance health with taste and meal satisfaction including French Toast Casserole, One Pot Lemony Spaghetti, Creamy Red Lentil Daal and Chocolate Mud Pie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Böhmerová, Ada.
Summary: Geared toward daily living, Slovak for You is intended to fill an urgent need for a reliable, up-to-date Slovak language textbook suitable for use at the university level in either an intensive or regular course. Slovak for You is also designed to enable the student to understand and speak the language of Slovakia - a modern country in the Heart of Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perfekt 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.8 BOHCalhoun, Ada
Summary: Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which the first twenty years are the hardest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.8 CALLimón, Ada
Summary: "The poems in Lucky wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open, honest, and grounded, the poems in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autumn House Press 2021
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Summary: This book follows a fun and relatable character from meal to meal throughout their day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Powerkids Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This dramatic documentary, with full scale battles, elaborate sets, and a large cast, tells the fascinating story of three world powers - England, France and an alliance of Native American nations - whose struggles planted the seeds for the American Revolution. A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARCalhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.244 CALCalhoun, Ada.
Summary: St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 CALFerrer, Ada
Summary: "In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raúl Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 FERLimón, Ada
Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMChouhan, Anu
Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHOSummary: Rick McKay filmed over one hundred of Broadway and Hollywood's greatest stars. In their own words they tell how they came to New York and created this legendary century in American theatre, thereby preserving the memories of historic Broadway performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dada Films/RCA Victor/BMG 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROLimón, Ada
Summary: ""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMPetrova, Ada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Cohen Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITRadke, Crystal
Summary: Did you know cursive writing can improve thinking and written expression skills in kids? Perfect for beginners, this guide is comprised of practice sheets and positive messages intended to encourage and inspire kids as it takes them from single letters all the way through complete words and sentences. Features: cursive for beginners with stroke order for uppercase and lowercase letters, as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockbridge Press 2021