Summary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILEamer, Claire
Summary: Introduces six of the most common critters that live in and on the human body, describing how they impact health and what research is being done on how to use microbes to make people healthier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579 EAMHamer, Marc
Summary: "For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights From the acclaimed author of How to Catch a Mole, this meditative memoir explores the wisdom of plants, the joys of manual labor, and the natural cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden's life and our own. Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMER, MARC HAMHamer, Marc
Summary: "From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of the garden. In this restorative little book, best enjoyed in a single sitting under a tree, an adventurous young boy who traveled the world in his mind meets the old man he becomes, and together they build a new garden from a neglected plot behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2023
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Summary: "Ripley's Believe It or Not meets National Geographic in this book about some of the grossest yet most fascinating ways animals have adapted to survive. Survival of the Grossest explores how some of the most effective -- and often truly foul -- survival adaptations in the animal world involve poop, mucus, spit, foul smells and sprays, nasty eating habits, disembodied body parts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.4 EAMClymer, Floyd
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1949
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 631.37 CLYClymer, Floyd
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Ford Model TClymer, Floyd
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1950
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 ClymerAylmer, Janet.
Summary: When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude, despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was Mr. Darcy thinking? The story of Elizabeth Bennet's blossoming romance with "haughty, reserved, and fastidious" Fitzwilliam Darcy has enchanted readers for nearly two centuries. Yet, Mr. Darcy has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AYLElder, Janet.
Summary: Traces the inspirational story of a breast-cancer survivor whose new puppy ran away from its caregiver while the family was on vacation, a loss for which the author's family was assisted by numerous helpers from the police chief to local school children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.728 ELDBord, Janet
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granada 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.364 BORWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMER WEABord, Janet
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blandford 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.94 BORCamus, Albert
Summary: Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of his Notebooks began as simple instruments of his work; this final volume, recorded over the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848.91403 CAMComer, James P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 COMSummary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMMardini, Yusra
Summary: Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARDINI, YUSRA MARSummary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINBowman, James Cloyd
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1942
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8298 JONDuffy, Chris (EDT)
Summary: A collection of graphic novel adaptations of popular fables includes the tales of the hare and the tortoise, the boy who cried wolf, the town mouse and the country mouse, and the grasshopper and the ants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FABWong-Kalu, Hinaleimoana
Summary: Four individuals of dual male and female spirit bring their healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, where they are beloved for their gentle ways and miraculous cures and where they imbue four giant boulders with their powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONKelly, James F. (James Floyd)
Summary: Presents a history and description of computer programming, or coding, noting such figures as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, and provides a parent guide, tips, and a quiz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017