Soyinka, Wole.
Summary: In The Open Sore of a Continent, Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by General Abacha in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. He deftly explains the shifting dramatic personae of Nigerian history and politics to Westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 SOYSale, Kirkpatrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.015 SALWald, Elijah.
Summary: Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after his death as the most important artist in early blues and a founding father of rock 'n' roll? Elijah Wald provides the first thorough examination of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT WALRogue Wave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROGWald, Chelsea
Summary: Presents a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet-from creative uses for harvested "biosolids," to the bold engineers dedicated to bringing safe sanitation to the billions of people worldwide living without it
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 696 WALWald, Elijah.
Summary: How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television--to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 WALWilliams, Kale
Summary: "The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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Summary: The host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money provides a profound meditation on why communication can connect us instead of divide us and how we can all do it better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 153.6 SALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 SALYale, Kathleen
Summary: "Dig up an adventure! You can find all kinds of rocks wherever you look. Head outside with this hands-on field guide and have fun learning about them." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2023