Summary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GREPratt, Douglas R.
Summary: Tells how to get started in radio controlled model airplanes, discusses the Academy of Model Aeronautics, and shows how to assemble and operate an RC airplane kit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 PRAPlatt, Stephen R
Summary: Describes how nineteenth-century British efforts to open China to trade set in motion the fall of the Qing dynasty and started a war that allowed for the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authenticity and intention with this practical guide to living with less...your way"-- When Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet. After struggling with the austerity and whiteness of mainstream minimalism, she realized why minimalism often seems unattainable for so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.9 PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Cleopatra and how she became a shero and one of the most famous female rulers of all time" --www.abdobooks.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932.02 PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Sacagawea and how she became a shero for one of America's most famous expeditions. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO."--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: This title introduces readers to Harriet Tubman and how she became a shero to free as many slaves as possible through the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 973.71 PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAFletcher, R. A. (Richard A.)
Contents: Romance and reality -- The secret of the tower -- The curve of conversion -- The caliphate of Cr̤doba -- The party kings -- The Moroccan fundamentalists -- Convivencia -- Nasrid Granada -- An August pomegranate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 FLEAmmons, A. R.
Summary: "I reject the North because it is not / my native ground, and I reject the / South because it rejected me, and I / reject European clutterment because / we fought to put that ocean between / us. I identify with no sort or kind: / I am by myself."
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 AMMMontgomery, R. A
Summary: "Homer is your dog, and best friend. You two have a great time together. But Homer is not a dog who likes to sit at home with a bone in front of the television. One day, Homer vanishes. There are a trail of clues, but you'll have to decide where to look. And who will keep Homer out of trouble?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: RANDOM HOUSE 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALScotti, R. A.
Summary: It was the splendor--and the scandal--of the age, the defining event of the high Renaissance. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave--to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 726.5094 SCOScotti, R. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.3492 SCOScotti, R. A.
Summary: Part love story, part mystery, "Vanished Smile" reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed--the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" from the Paris Louvre on August 21, 1911.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 SCOVoronezhskiĭ, R. A. (Roman A.)
Summary: Romu Voronezhskogo predstavlyat, navernoe, ne nuzhno. Sam sebya on nazyvaet "kakoy-to hren iz Interneta" - i eto vpolne harakterizuet ego, kak cheloveka, no ne kak avtora, poetomu dlya togo, chtoby ponyat, kakoy zhe eto vse-taki (k sozhaleniyu, epitety "ostroumnyy", "kreativnyy" i "yumoristicheskiy" zaprescheny v dannom tekste, potomu chto imi vse operiruyut, kogda govoryat o Voronezhskom)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: "Gai͡atri" 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 VORDyer, R. A. (Richard A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.73 DYESalaman, R. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 684.082 SALSummary: "Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity ... For centuries, devoted pilgrims hoping to reach the fabled temple needed to undertake an arduous multi-day journey. Today, because of a new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANEnnos, A. R.
Summary: A scholarly and scientific examination of the unrecognized role of trees in the planet's ecosystem reveals wood's unexpected influence on human evolution, civilization, and the global economy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620.1 ENNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620.1 ENNFord, R. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.31 FORMontgomery, R. A.
Summary: "You are the littlest elf. When it's time to play sports and games, you are always picked last. But you have secret talents no one knows about. Are you brave enough to be the best?"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2009
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MONSalvatore, R. A.
Summary: Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do-Urden, and his companions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN SalvatoreSalvatore, R. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALGallerstein, Gary A.
Summary: Covers all aspects of pet bird ownership, including selection, nutrition, behavior, home physicals, emergency medical care, preventative medicine and much more. --Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avian Publications 2003