Biel, Timothy L.
Summary: Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 BIEPlanisek, Sandra L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Assoc. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.155 PLAFauber, L. S.
Summary: Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people used nothing more than their naked eye to fathom what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the 1500's—of different nationality, age, religion, and class—collaborate to discover that the Earth revolved around the Sun? With this radical discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.92 FAUWhyte, S. L.
Summary: Reilly, a teenager with extraordinary abilities, lives in an idyllic island town in the Pacific Northwest. After his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. Unforeseen events threaten his confidence, his peace, even his life, and he needs answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fireglass Publishing 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHYLittle, Elbert L. (Elbert Luther)
Summary: An identification guide to trees of western North America, with 855 color photographs, three identification keys, and detailed descriptive information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1980
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.16 LITRoll, David L.
Summary: "From Franklin Roosevelt's final days through Harry Truman's extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in U.S. history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic bosses and reluctantly picked Senator Truman as his vice president, a man he barely knew. Upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHYBiehl, Janet
Summary: "In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.91 BIESummary: The Shining, Carrie, It, Misery, Stand By Me; more than 60 of Stephen King's novels have been adapted into films. King on Screen pulls back the curtain and offers an intimate sit down with the filmmakers who brought King's stories to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINMarshall, S. L. A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 MARPiehl, Janet.
Summary: Answers questions about mosquitos such as where female mosquitos lay their eggs and why mosquitos bite people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.772 PIEPiehl, Janet.
Summary: Gives an overview of Formula One cars, including their design, parts, races, and drivers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.72 PIEGross, Philippe L.
Summary: This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such canonical photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange. Lucid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.1 GROPiehl, Janet.
Summary: Describes cars driven in Formula One races, including their history and development through the years, including information on the tracks, race rules and culture, and famous drivers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGEdwards, Richard L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NASW Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1522 EDWMencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MENSummary: From the Publisher: This comprehensive medical resource, The Merck Manual-Third Home Edition, extensively covers health care for newborns, the elderly, and everyone in between. The new Third Home Edition provides the same authoritative information doctors have relied on in The Merck Manual, for more than a century, in easy-to-understand, everyday language. Previous editions have sold more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merck Research Laboratories 2009
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 610 MERReina, Dennis S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.7 REISegal, Nancy L.
Summary: Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins--when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018