Glassberg, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.789 GLABehrens, Ken.
Summary: Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a mystery. The keys to the mystery—the subtle traits that unlock the identity of flying waterbirds, be it wingbeat cadence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 BEHWhite, Mel
Summary: A guide for beginning and intermediate birders describes the best birding spots in the eastern U.S. and includes species lists, descriptions of birds and their behavior, and tips on the best times to visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 WHISummary: The experts at Florida Sportsman bring you the most colorful, indepth book on snapper and grouper ever written. Learn how to catch more and bigger grouper and snapper than ever before. The best baits and rigs, new hotspots, and tips from the pros!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Florida Sportsman 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 SPOEastman, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.13 EASMark, Nikki
Summary: In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark's perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They're still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MARHospodar, George
Summary: "This trip resulted in their first book, Reflection on America's Great Loop, a personal, light-hearted, real-life account of the couple's travels while circumnavigating the waters of the United States and Canada. Their newest book, The Great Loop Experience--from Concept to Completion, is a comprehensive guide written to help others plan, prepare, and successfully execute their own Great Loop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 NORZimmerman, Karla
Summary: Highlights the eastern U.S.'s top travel experiences, providing a monthly calendar of popular events, road trip and scenic drive ideas, and information on sights, dining, accommodations, shopping, and entertainment in each area profiled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USAHays, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.6 HAYManning, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3 MANCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CALJenkins, Peter
Summary: Photographic record of the author's two-year trip around the Gulf Coast, from the Florida Keys to the Texas/Mexico border, with stories about some of the people he met and places he visited along the way. Companion piece to the author's book, Along the edge of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 JENPerrier, Dianne.
Contents: The Great Warriors Trace -- New York : wars for an empire -- Pennsylvania : the nation's arsenal -- Maryland : grand anticipation -- West Virginia : fearful reality -- The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia : seeing the elephant -- Southwestern Virginia : themarch of the elephant ends -- Tennessee : when cloudshadows pass -- Annihilating space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 PERGenovese, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 GENShaffer, Lynda
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 SHASibley, David
Summary: "Covering North American species east of the Rocky Mountains, [offering] a wealth of improvements and updates"--Front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.0723 SibFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEHerold, Benjamin
Summary: "Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: "If you're fascinated by animal tracks or the practice of tracking, then learning to identify scat is a helpful aid. If you're curious about which critters are crossing your path or are in your backyard, then Scat Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use book, you can identify mammal scat of eastern North America, from the states that border the Mississippi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nature Study Guild Publishers, an imprint of AdventureKEEN 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.15 MILO'Neil, Dana Pennett
Summary: "The compulsively readable, definitive account of the greatest era of the most influential league in college basketball history, infused with the raucous spirit and roaring voices of the league's legendary coaches and players. There has never been, nor will there ever be, another league quite like the Big East. Five Big East schools have won national college basketball titles, and five coaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 O'NESnyder, Lynsi
Summary: "When Lynsi Snyder's grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining first-hand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SNYCook, Langdon
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food : salmon. For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild--thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV, perhaps. For others, it's the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep red fillet at the market. For others still, it's the jolt of adrenaline on a successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 COOOffley, Edward.
Summary: "On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars OffleyDutt, Yashica
Summary: "Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear "Dalit looking." Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2024