Dayman, Lucy
Summary: Lonely Planet's Experience Japan is your guide to unforgettable experiences and local surprises. Discover Hokkaido's ski slopes and snow festivals, explore Himeji-jo, and sample Japanese delicacies in Kyoto - all guided by local experts with fresh perspectives. Uncover Japan's best experiences and get away from the everyday!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.2 LONRaffan, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.08 RAFMeadow, Tey
Summary: "In the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child, ethnographer Tey Meadow introduces readers to a generation of parents who actively facilitate gender nonconformity in their children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at cure, but today such families call their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 MEATec, Nechama.
Summary: Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia, led by Tuvia Bielski, that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.83 TECRaffin, Michele
Summary: Pandemonium, the home and bird sanctuary that Raffin shares with some of the world’s most remarkable birds, is a conservation organization dedicated to saving and breeding birds at the edge of extinction, with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild. In The Birds of Pandemonium, she lets us into her world--and theirs. Birds fall in love, mourn, rejoice, and sacrifice; they have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 RAFTey, Josephine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEYAlfero, Teo
Summary: The wolf has enthralled humankind for millennia, as a creature to be both feared and admired. Legends, behavioral science, and biological research all suggest that human beings picked up many of their key evolutionary traits -- such as cooperative hunting and raising of their young, and their high degree of emotional intelligence and deep bonding -- from wolves. Teo and his team at Wolf Heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 599.773 ALFBruschi, Tedy.
Summary: "You might be coming to this book as a fan of Tedy's football skills and, don't get me wrong, gaining the insights of one of the best defenders in Patriots history is worth the price of admission, but that's just part of the story. There are a lot of reasons to look up to him, and I promise you will finish this book with an admiration for him on a much deeper level."--Tom Brady (from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 BruscTec, Nechama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 TECZed, Matteo
Summary: "An illustrated history, exploration, and celebration of the Italian liqueur everyone loves. This gorgeous guide teaches you everything you need to know about amaro, the delightfully complex and bittersweet Italian liqueur. Traditionally a digestif, it'salso a popular ingredient in modern cocktails. The first part of the book is dedicated to the drink's creation and extraction processes, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 663 ZEDHoffman, Tod.
Contents: Dark days in Africa -- Osama's war -- The East Africa cell -- Fatwa -- The deployment -- Mohamed Saddiq Odeh -- The retaliation -- Khalfan Khamis Mohamed -- The defectors -- Wadih el Hage -- The day in court -- Life and death -- Salim -- Supermax -- Harun -- The myth of hindsight -- Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani -- Anwar al-Awlaki -- The death of Osama bin Laden -- Africa -- Appendix. The twenty-two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 HOFOlson, Tod
Summary: This fast-paced, three-part narrative takes readers on three expeditions over 15 years to K2, one of the deadliest mountains on Earth. Roped together, these teams of men face perilously high altitudes and battering storms in hopes of reaching the summit. As each expedition sets out, they carve new paths along icy slopes and unforgiving rock, creating camps on ledges so narrow they fear turning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.522 OLSSafran, Joshua.
Summary: Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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Summary: Opening Tiffin unlocks for readers the diverse flavors of India. More than 500 recipes are organized by region and further by course, including vegetarian dishes, hearty meat-filled dinners, seafood, 10-minute appetizers, impossibly easy homemade breads, desserts, and drinks. Ingredients vary from coconut to tamarind to curry to masala and everything in between. Chef Floyd Cardoz writes in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2018
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Summary: The true story of a car-jacking in New Orleans chronicles the death of a white housewife at the hands of a young black man and the subsequent trials, which gradually reveal a story of passion and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HORLaffin, Ima
Summary: A collection of simple knock-knock jokes on a wide variety of topics, accompanied by humorous, colorful illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2004
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Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.2275 RAFYaffa, Joshua
Summary: "From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 YAFDalian, Kent.
Summary: As Zoe struggles with her new role as leader of the Dark Daughters, she and her friends turn to their handbook for help and discover stories about five notable vampyres from history, including Hippolyte, Circe, and Cleopatra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CASDarman, Jonathan.
Summary: Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and how these two men changed American politics forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320 DARStobbart, Darran
Summary: Have you ever wondered... What was the biggest dinosaur? What's the fastest plane ever built? Where's the tallest waterfall in the world? Lift the flaps to climb the tallest mountain, explore the depths of the ocean, peer into the furthest reaches of our solar system, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Amato Publications 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006