Ross, John
Contents: Introduction: Welcome to El Monstruo -- Birth of a monstruo -- City of flowers & smoking hearts -- City of palaces & ghosts -- City of betrayed hopes -- City of order & progress -- City of the cannibal revolution -- City of artists & assassins -- City & country -- The city goes to war; city of miracles & hype -- Uruchurtu's city -- City of dread & redemption -- City of denial & shame -- City in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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Summary: "This definitive biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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Summary: Offers advice for adopting dogs of all ages and with a range of training needs, discussing how to choose a dog that is compatible with a home, how to introduce a dog to family members and other pets, and overcoming a history of abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 ROSSummary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2005
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Summary: "Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: XRX Books 2003
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Summary: "The 16th-century friar known as St. John is a preeminent Spanish literary figure as well as one of the world's great mystical poets. This new edition of his works of spiritual guidance modernizes the original text while retaining its rhetorical grandeur. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum." -- Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Pub. 2007
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Summary: The true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace, who showed a nation the way forward in its quest for speed, endurance and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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Summary: "When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Presents portraits of fourteen American women who played important roles in American history, including Emma Willard, Abigail Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: Meal for the Week: Anti Inflammatory Recipes and Diet Foods The Meal of the Week book covers two sections, a general dieting cookbook and the anti inflammatory diet. Each section contains diets that work in helping you to build a weekly meal planner with good healthy meal ideas. Many people suffer from inflammation issues and the foods called for in the ingredients of the anti inflammatory diet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cooking Genius 2014
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Summary: Possibly the biggest star that television has ever produced, Johnny Carson was seen by more people on more occasions than anyone else in American history. Over the course of his 30-year run on The Tonight Show, Carson interviewed 23,000 guests in 4,531 episodes. Watch as the life and career of one of the most beloved yet enigmatic icons in American entertainment history is explored.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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Summary: "The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories--an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, heroines, villains, artisans, and pioneers. Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete story of [ancient] Egypt--charting the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptians while putting their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932 FLEMilivojevic, JoAnn.
Summary: An introduction to the geography, history, people and culture of Puerto Rico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.95 MILSummary: This compelling visual journey through our galaxy combines more than 350 photographs, illustrations, and graphics to present the universe as you've never seen it before. Visual Galaxy is a deep dive into the past, present, and future of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. In this mind-expanding visual tour through the cosmos, spectacular photographs are converted into interpretive graphics,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: When the rabbi's cat wins the gift of speech by swallowing a parakeet, he uses it both to tell lies (that he didn't eat the parakeet, for example) and to tell his own story. But now that he's lied, the rabbi forbids him from talking to his daughter, Zlabya, and vows to educate him in the Torah. For his part, the cat wants to study Kabbalah and he wants a bar mitzvah. But the question of whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chancellor Press 1996