Cate, Annette.
Summary: A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 CATCamí.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 731.463 CAMCate, Curtis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 CATDoty, Cate
Summary: "Growing up in the south, where tradition reigns supreme, Cate Doty thought about weddings . . . a lot. She catered for them, she attended many, she imagined her own. So, when she moved to New York City in pursuit of love--and to write for The New York Times--she finds her natural home in the wedding section, a first step to her own happily-ever-after, surely. Soon Cate is thrown into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOTY, CATE DOTYLineberry, Cate
Summary: Be Free or Die is a compelling narrative that illuminates Robert Smalls’ amazing journey from slave to Union hero and ultimately United States Congressman. It also gives fascinating insight and knowledge into the country's first efforts to help newly freed slaves while also illustrating the many struggles and achievements of African Americans during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMALLS, ROBERT LINLineberry, Cate.
Summary: Recounts how the passengers and crew of an American medical evacuation plane, including thirteen nurses and thirteen medics, survived after it crashed in Nazi-controlled Albania in November, 1943, until they could be rescued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5475 LINCatte, Elizabeth
Summary: Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's twentieth-century eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2021
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Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the New York Colony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 CATTyerman, Christopher
Summary: The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 TYEMetz, Cade
Summary: "New York Times Silicon Valley beat reporter Cade Metz has an insider's perspective on the greatest tech story of our time--a story that no one else has been in a position to tell"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: GOCO Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 OLSKiernan, Denise
Summary: "All across the world, among hundreds of cultures, over centuries, people have come together to give thanks. But in America, we didn't have an official Thanksgiving holiday until the 1800s. The holiday Americans know today exists because of a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale, a spirited letter-writing campaign, a sympathetic president, and a civil war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.2649 KIETimerman, Jacobo
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.92 ZIMEierman, Kim
Summary: "The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment-the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these beneficial animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2020
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Summary: From the author of Half Baked Harvest comes her second cookbook with 125 show-stopping recipes made simple: fewer ingredients, fool-proof meal-prepping, easy entertaining, and everything in between. Tieghan Gerard is known, both on her blog and in her debut cookbook, Half Baked Harvest Cookbook, for her stunningly beautiful meals and thoughtful recipes that taste even better than they look....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 GERKiernan, Denise
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission-one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2649 KIEKiernan, Denise.
Summary: Looks at the valuable contributions made by the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom KiernanBate, Jonathan.
Summary: Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BATGerard, Tieghan
Summary: The blogger behind "Half Baked Harvest," shares over one hundred and twenty-five recipes for dishes that include pan-fried feta with thyme and greek marinated olives, steak shwarma bowls, and gooey chocolate coconut caramel bars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GERDowns, Kieran
Summary: ""Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to archery. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 799.3 DOWKiernan, Ben
Summary: This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 KIEKiernan, Ben.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 KIEKiernan, Denise
Summary: Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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Summary: This book is a true-life adventure of a couple who did what most of us only dream of doing: they gave up the rat race of the big city for a new life in Tuscany. Candace and Ferenc Mate - she a painter, he a writer - arrive from New York in the late 1980s knowing almost no Italian, and with only four weeks to find a country house to live in. They finally conclude the deal on the hood of a...
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