Biddle, Wayne.
Summary: A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 BIDAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADABiddle, Wayne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.01 BIDRiddle, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 RIDBiddle, Daniel R.
Summary: Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTO, OCTAVIUS BIDAhmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMRadam, Brian
Summary: "If chosen correctly and properly maintained, a high-quality lawnmower should provide many years of trouble-free service. This extensively illustrated, step-by-step practical manual provides the reader with advice on how to choose the best mower for their needs, and how to carry out DIY maintenance to keep it in tip-top condition, saving on potentially expensive professional servicing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.4 RADTurley, Windle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 595.78 TurWalker, Vanessa Siddle
Summary: "In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled Southern school segregation and inequality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 WALHindle, Charlotte
Summary: "Are you looking for a more meaningful travel experience? Do you want to give back to the communities you visit, make a genuine connection with locals, meet like-minded travellers and build your skills? International volunteering opens up all these opportunities and this book has all the advice you need to get there. Much more than just a resource directory, Volunteer is packed with invaluable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.202 HINBittle, Jake
Summary: "The untold story of climate migration-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 BITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ BittleGoudsouzian, Aram.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSSELL, BILL GOUBiale, David
Summary: This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 BIAStrobell, Adah Parker.
Summary: A collection of games, crafts, songs, recipes, and social events that recreate colonial times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acropolis Books 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793 STRCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohArem, Arnold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.575 AREAsad, Muhammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.1227 ASADobkin, Adin
Summary: "On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 DOBCalhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALHOUN, ADA CALLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years since the Nixon administration. In the early 1960s, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren was at the height of its power, expanding civil rights for the poor and minorities and promoting equality in dramatic ways through rulings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 COHAral, Sinan
Summary: "Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ARAArem, Ridha
Summary: Includes material on thyroid imbalance, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, thyroid hormone as antidepressant, weight control, hormones and sexuality, fatigue, chronic fatigue, hypoglycemia, fibromyalgia, thyroid problems in women (premenstrual syndrome, menopause, infertility, miscarriage, postpartum depression), the T4/T3 protocol, thyroid eye disease, thyroid cancer, and other topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 ARECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 ARESteinsaltz, Adin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999