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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963 Action and adventure television programs African Americans Civil rights Alabama Birmingham History Cognition disorders Jones, Doug (G. Douglas) 1954- Perceptual disorders Quantum gravity Science fiction television programs Trials (Murder) Alabama Birmingham United StatesNott, David (David M.)
Summary: For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTT, DAVID NOTNissley, Tom
Summary: Presents a literary companion and guide that describes the mistakes, epiphanies, and successes of a variety of writers, from Proust and Conrad to Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, each day of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9339 NISJones, Doug (G. Douglas)
Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 JONHayasaki, Erika.
Summary: A journalist details how Norma Bowe, the professor of a popular class on the stages of dying, death, and bereavement at Kean University in New Jersey, shows her students how to truly heal and live their lives through contemplating the end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 HAYSummary: "As the epic second season begins the fight to save humanity rages on even as civil war looms within the fleet between the followers of President Roslin and Commander Adama."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATWoginrich, Jenna.
Summary: Jenna Woginrich's inspiring journey from city cubicle to rural homestead has captivated readers of her blog and previous books. Now, in One-Woman Farm, Woginrich shares the joys, sorrows, trials, epiphanies, and blessings she discovers during a year spent farming on her own land, finding deep fulfillment in the practical tasks and timeless rituals of the agricultural life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.9747 WOGBurns, Lawrence D.
Summary: "We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the time we spend in cars can be put to more productive use. We will prevent more than 90 percent of car crashes, provide freedom of mobility to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.3 BUROxenberg, Catherine
Summary: Oxenberg lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her. In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. They both thought this program might help her achieve her dream of starting her own company. But as her daughter became brainwashed by the organization's charismatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OXENBERG, CATHERINE OXESmolin, Lee
Summary: In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 530.143 SMOSummary: Now is the fateful year 2261, Commander John Sheridan has already declared the station free, breaking the ties between it and the Earth Alliance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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Summary: Traces the creation of a Pennsylvania residential subdivision from its planning stage to the residence of its first owners, in an account that offers insight into the long process of development and how it is related to sprawl and ex-urban growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 RYBWiman, Christian
Summary: "Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklae take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth : the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustratehow the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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Summary: Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos. Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her. Hilarious, irreverent, and heartfelt, All Over the Place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERUITER, GERALDINE DERTravisano, Thomas J.
Summary: "Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life withher talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BISHOP, ELIZABETH TRAWillis, Raquel
Summary: "A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIS, RAQUEL WILCarson, Rachel
Summary: This deluxe Library of America volume presents one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author, Rachel Carson. A huge bestseller when published in September 1962, Silent Spring led not only to many of the laws and government agencies that protect our air, land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 CARRayner, Jay
Summary: "You're about to die. What would your final meal be?" An awful lot of people seem to want Jay Rayner dead, if the regularity with which he hears that question is anything to go by. Rather than dwell too much on that fact, Jay embarks on a journey through his life in food, in pursuit of the meal to end all meals. His quest takes him from oysters on the Essex coast to sourdough in San Francisco,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guardian Faber 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 RAYSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012