Summary: An innovative and accessible guide to theories in technology and nature. Learning about science can be daunting, but this book makes it easier by giving you all the big ideas simply explained. Simple explanations and stylish infographics open up the world of science to even the complete novice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coronet 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE BRANolan, Hayley.
Summary: Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented display of passion. Quite the tragic love story, right? Wrong. In this expose, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn's life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNE BOLEYN, QUEEN NOLLagoze, Miles
Summary: "For readers of Jarhead and Phil Klay, a Marine Combat Cameraman offers a character-rich, unfiltered look at military life in Afghanistan, from a Millennial perspective of soldiers raised with modern media and graphic video games"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAGOZE, MILES LAGSidebottom, Harry
Summary: "What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all. On 8 June AD218 a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 SIDGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAIRockliff, Mara
Summary: "In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J324.6 ROCSummary: Tells the life story of Earl Young, realtor, developer, and builder in Charlevoix, Michigan, who from the 1920's to the 1970's created the remarkable legacy of unusual homes and buildings, utilizing native stones and boulders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlevoix Historical Society 2009