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Bryce, Robert

Summary: "If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing exponentially, it remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and to do so reliably. Storage is even harder. This paradox has shaped...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.793 BRY

Olds, Elizabeth Fagg.

Contents: Annie Smith Peck.--Delia J. Akeley.--Marguerite Harrison.--Louise Arner Boyd.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.922 OLD

Bryce, Robert

Summary: "In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.064 BRY

Zijl, Annejet van der

Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJ

Breece, Hannah

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 BRE

Crume, Rick.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CRU

Cruze, Rachel

Summary: "Do you want to improve your money-and your life-for good? Then you need to understand why you handle money the way you do! The basics of personal finance, like budgeting and saving, may be black and white, but there are deeper reasons you make the choices you do with money. That's why, in Know Yourself, Know Your Money, #1 New York Times bestselling author and money expert Rachel Cruze goes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ramsey Press 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 CRU

Brose, Christian

Summary: "When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, wethink about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the single system but "the battle network"--the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BRO

Truhe, Marv

Summary: "The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines. Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections, personal or institutional, of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TRU

Pritchard, D. Brine (David Brine)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.34 PRI

Olukotun, Deji Bryce

Summary: "A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it - in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria. With Europe, Asia, and the U.S. knocked off-line, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLU

Druse, Ken.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.951 DRU

Pryce, Will

Summary: Wood has unique qualities, yet is undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly drawn to it to satisfy social and environmental needs. Will Pryce, the most admired architectural photographer in Britain, has traveled the world seeking both famous and obscure buildings in wood. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.0448 PRY

Bracy, Kate.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.95 BRA

Bruder, Jessica

Summary: "From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.3 BRU

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRU

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.3 BRU

Crute, Josh

Summary: Sometimes in London it drizzles. Sometimes it mizzles. Other times it pelts and showers and spits. And Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. How can he go about his day as a proper London gentleman when his shoes are soggy, his coat is always collecting puddles, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Fed up with damp and dreary London, Jonas sails far away, to places where the sun always shines. But what...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAN

Pryce, Jessica

Summary: "Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2024

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Hoffman, Bryce G.

Summary: An account of the near-collapse of Ford in 2008 outlines the efforts of CEO Alan Mulally to save the company, describing Ford's subsequent transformation into the world's most profitable automobile business.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 HOF

Heaton, Colin D.

Summary: "Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War Heaton

Brunt, Douglas

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 609.2 BRU

Bruns, Roger.

Summary: Collects speeches, memos, and other documents written for the possibility of failure in wars and foreign relations throughout American history, left unsaid and unpublished due to turn of events and sudden changes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BRU

Brown, Brene

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: In Braving the Wilderness, author Brene Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.2 BRO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.2 BRO

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 BRO

Boyce, Charles.

Summary: Nearly 3,000 entries and over 50 illustrations provide information on all facets of Shakespeare's life and works.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 BOY

Munari, Bruno

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Publisher / Publication Date: M. Corraini 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 Munari

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