Humphrey, Natalie
Summary: "Longer than a football field and with enough space to house 5,000 soldiers at one time, aircraft carriers are amazing mega machines! Complete with a long runway where jets can take off and land, aircraft carriers can store 70 jets on board at one time. Young readers will love learning about this floating city at sea and discovering what makes this ship a true mega machine. With informative,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.825 HUMGoodreau, Olivia
Summary: "So many young people are faced with life-changing hardships--from illness and disease to loss and calamity. What Olivia Goodreau discovers through her journey with chronic Lyme , and what she has been sharing with the world, is that inside of every predicament is also a possibility. This is the story of how Olivia turned the physical challenges and emotional hardships she had faced since she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaudium Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Jumbo jets are huge planes designed to carry massive cargo or hundreds of people. The largest passenger plane in the world can even carry over 800 people onboard at one time! Some jumbo jets are so big, airports had to be redesigned to fit them. Young readers will love learning about this massive mega machine through this approachable, informative text. Full color photographs help readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.133 HUMSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Blake, Kevin
Summary: Learn all about ticks and the deadly diseases they carry in this engrossing new narrative nonfiction book for young readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2019
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Summary: Learn how Melvil Dewey's love of organization and words drove him to develop and implement his Dewey Decimal system, leaving a significant and lasting impact in libraries across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC O'NEGleim, Irvin N.
Summary: The Gleim Private Pilot Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep book is designed to simplify and facilitate your flight training. Thorough discussions based on the FAA Airman Certification Standards, and full-color detailed illustrations teach each flight maneuver, area of operation, and other subject area tasks prior to your flight lesson. Thus, you will be thoroughly prepared to spend more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gleim Publications 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1325 GLESummary: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARMGleim, Irvin N.
Summary: With the Pilot Handbook, Gleim has compiled a thorough collection of airplane-specific pilot information from a variety of FAA publications. Updated to reflect the latest regulations and operating practices, this 11th edition contains material of interest to pilots of all experience levels. An excellent resource for learning new material or refreshing your aviation knowledge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gleim Publications, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1325 GLEHamilton, Sue L.
Summary: The special designs and challenges of fire and rescue aircraft, along with the unique skills of their pilots, are emphasized in full-color, dramatic photos. Readers fight fires in fixed-wing planes and specially designed helicopters carrying thousands of gallons of water or chemicals. They ride along on rescues that take on altitude, wind, snow, rain, fog, and more to bring injured people to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & D Xtreme 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.1333 HAMHayes, Michael D.
Summary: "The Private Oral Exam Guide is designed to help prepare student pilots for the oral exam portion of their checkride with FAA examiners. Using a question-and-answer format, this indispensable tool lists the questions most likely to be asked by examiners and provides succinct, ready responses. Instructors rate the oral exam guide series as excellent resources for students in both planning for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1325 HAYPrice, Alfred.
Summary: "Combines two books first published in 1974 and 1985 ... under the titles: Spitfire at war and Spitfire at war 2."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Promotional Reprint Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.43 PRICoyle, Finn
Summary: "Finn Coyle brings his favorite things about the police department to life in this simplistic photo-based book. Readers will discover some of the vehicles police officers use to do their jobs, including a police car, helicopter, boat, motorcycle, bicycle, and so much more!"--Baker & Taylor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flowerpot Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD COYBodie, Warren M.
Summary: Warren Bodie's book is a marvel of completeness, including photos of all series and one-offs, and favorably presents what was arguably the best all-around fighter of World War Two. All the subjective criticisms of the famous Lockheed twin-boom plane are clearly discussed in their proper historical context, with ample support from the main historical actors. The book also demonstrates that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Widewing Publications 1991
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Summary: The founder of Scott's Cheap Flights explains why we're searching for airfare all wrong, shares the strategies that have saved his two million newsletter subscribers a collective $500 million on airfare, and presents a bold new approach for how to see the world while never overpaying for flights again. When Scott Keyes booked flights to Italy for $130 roundtrip and Japan for $169 roundtrip, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5318 ORELevy, Janice.
Summary: Simple text and color illustrations present the historical background and contemporary celebration of the Cinco de Mayo holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 LEV SPANISHNegendank, Megan
Summary: "In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, a sex therapist offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to help readers nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a more secure relationship with a partner who has experienced past sexual trauma. In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner's past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISHughes, Susan
Summary: "Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in baskets, and in loving arms. Up! depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling lovingly carries a baby. With various family configurations and settings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUGSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumFlynn, Brendan
Summary: Learn about Miguel Cabrera's early life, career, biggest sports moments, and what makes him a champion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB CABRERA FLYWilder, Eliot.
Summary: What resonated about Endtroducing... when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not only a master sampler and turntablist supreme, he is also a serious archeologist with a world-thirsty passion (what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2005