Sveinsson, Thorgeir Freyr
Summary: The volcanic island of Iceland has erupted on to the world travel scene in recent years. With striking scenes of steaming turquoise geysers set among rugged snowy peaks, miles of black sand beaches, and the majesty of the northern lights, one can only wonder what took so long. But what of the people who call this remote North Atlantic island home? Behind a stoic veneer lies a proud,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2021
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Summary: On November 14, 1963, something exceptional happened in Iceland--and that's saying a lot. In a country where the average summer temperature is 50°F and the sun only appears for a few hours a day during the winter, an event has to be pretty unusual to stand out. The birth of the island of Surtsey, the newest earth on Earth, was just that. On that November day, a volcano fifteen miles offshore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 BURMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCAHelmuth, Diana
Summary: "Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired of God being dead. So, she decides to try on the fastest growing, self-directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 days of observation, trial, error, wit, and back spasms. Witches today are often presented as confident and finished,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HELMUTH, DIANA HELMiller, Arthur
Summary: Casts a dreadful light on the Salem Witch Trials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1976
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Summary: In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post{u2013}World War II era up through the present. Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 FELMiller, Arthur
Summary: As a wave of anti-communist investigations swept across American society during the 1950s, Miller exposed the horror of such witch-hunts by retelling the story of the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 1994
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 812.52 MILMiller, Arthur
Summary: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Summary: Discusses the role of food in Icelandic culture and common ingredients found in the country's cuisine, and includes recipes for traditional desserts, main courses, and appetizers
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2011
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Summary: "In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the scene, but no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LOWAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The Salem witch trials marked one of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In 1692, two young children were accused of being bewitched and were arrested. More than 150 arrests occurred over the next two months, and a special court was created to try the cases. A total of 20 people were found guilty of being witches, and all of them were hanged. Inside this compelling volume, readers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LIGStarkey, Marion Lena.
Summary: This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 STACunningham, Scott
Summary: Cunningham explains how anyone can become a Wiccan, living magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with Nature. The book comes complete with exercises and practical experiments, so that actual experience augments the text in genuine teaching of the basic Craft principles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 1989
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Summary: "A daring and magnificent account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies. Many people may have heard the old sailing superstition that having women onboard a ship was bad luck. Thus, the sea remains in popular knowledge a male realm. When we think of examples of daring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THURIDUR EINARSDOTTIR WILSummary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC INLÆvar Þór Benediktsson
Summary: "This is a story about my grandfather: how he got stranded on a volcanic island, was almost turned into barbecue and found the most important moment in the world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AEVLoh-Hagan, Virginia
Summary: "Would you have survived the Salem witch trials? Make decisions and tally your score to find out. Written at a lower reading level with considerate text, these high maturity books are sure to grab struggling readers as they engage and play along. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LOHMacLysaght, Edward.
Summary: Ireland was one of the earliest countries to evolve a system of hereditary surnames. More than 4,000 Gaelic, Norman and Anglo-Irish surnames are listed in this book, giving a wealth of information on the background and location of Irish families. Edward MacLysaght was a leading authority on Irish names and family history. He served as Chief Herald and Genealogical Officer of the Irish Office of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Irish Academic Press 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.341 MACErickson, Vernon D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3775 BIRSummary: Best-selling author, culinary adventurer and self-proclaimed hedonist, Anthony Bourdain has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones. In this series, his journey introduces viewers to people and places far beyond the realm of food as he travels the world sampling local foods and culture. Paris: Take an unusual tour of the city of light and love as Tony ventures from a hardcore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV ANTSummary: Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHABaker, Emerson W.
Summary: "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015