Römer, Monika
Summary: What would the holiday season be without tins upon tins of delicious Christmas cookies? Baking during the holidays fills your home with an irresistible fragrance that moves from the oven and through every room, welcoming friends and family inside and filling you with Christmas spirit. Christmas Cookies makes it easier than ever to embrace the cheeriness of yuletide baking during the busy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ROMRaymundo, Peter
Summary: "As an inch-long sea bunny makes its way slowly across the ocean floor, readers discover that there is a lot more to this sea slug species than meets the eye-which comes in handy when a predator swoops in!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAYDavies, Monika
Summary: "A rattlesnake's rattle is built up over time as it sheds its skin and it shakes its rattle using tiny muscles on the sides of its tail. This is fascinating-unless you hear the deadly rattle yourself! The rattle is a warning that a venomous snake is nearby. Readers learn all about rattles and much more about rattlesnake bodies in this book. Additionally, the achievable main content includes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.96 DAVWegler, Monika.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.9322 WEGGuzmán, Mónica
Summary: "When you think you have the answers, you need to be asking a lot more questions-and embracing fearless curiosity. In this timely, personal guide, journalist Mónica Guzmán shows why curiosity is our best policy and how you can put it to work for you immediately, sharing practical tips from the trenches of the social, political, and cultural divides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GUZMaristain, Mónica
Summary: How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to his beginnings as a poet, and to the stardom that came with the publication of the novels The Savage Detectives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOLANO, ROBERTO MARBeisner, Monika.
Summary: One hundred one riddles include old favorites and new puzzles. Full-page, color illustrations provide clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.6 BEIDavies, Monika
Summary: "With wind speeds that can reach more than 150 miles (241 km) per hour, full-blown hurricanes can uproot giant trees, cause major power outages, and inundate areas with immense amounts of rain. This engaging text, enhanced with captivating photos, will educate readers on the science behind how hurricanes form and why they can be so dangerous. Readers will also gain life-saving knowledge on ways...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 DAVSanchez, Reymundo
Summary: Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was left to fend for himself before the age of 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2007
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Mojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJKelly, Donika
Summary: "The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KELMinicz, Elizabeth.
Summary: Literacy level workbook and teachers edition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2004
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Esterl, Arnica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Kelpies 2010
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Summary: Here's the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve best graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from the Big Bang to Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600 to the Renaissance, The cartoon history of the world presents facts about world history in a humorous, cartoon-style format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONMinicz, Elizabeth.
Summary: English -- No Problem! is focused on developing critical thinking and cultural awareness and on building language and life skills. Designed for adult and young adult English language learners with themes and issues meaningful to adults in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 MINWebb, Jonice
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world-and so did the labels that were used to talk about them. The tía loca who is shunned for defying gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Cynthia Manick's latest is a playlist of everyday life, introverted thoughts, familial bonds, and social commentary. In piercing language, she traces the circle of life for a narrator who dares to exist between youthful remembrances and adulthood realities. Each poem in No Sweet Without Brine is a reminder that a hint of sorrow makes the celebration and recognition of the glory of Blackness in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MANGonick, Larry.
Summary: Here's the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve best graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from the Big Bang to Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600 to the Renaissance, The cartoon history of the world presents facts about world history in a humorous, cartoon-style format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1990
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONMagica Quartet
Summary: When a new girl joins her class, Madoka Kaname feels she recognizes the mysterious, dark-haired transfer student from one of her dreams...a dream where she is approached by a cat-like creature who offers Madoka an opportunity to change destiny. Madoka had always thought magic was the stuff of fantasy...until she sees the transfer student fighting with the very cat-being from her dream! And just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1994
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 VARReymond, Lizelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974