Bizzarri, Amy
Summary: The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that offered nearly 3 million unemployed, unmarried men the job of restoring and conserving America's public lands, forests and parks. The program also threw in three square meals a day served in the camp mess hall. Bizzarri's book features the recipes that sustained not only the CCC during the Great Depression but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Palate, a division of The History Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 BIZCodjoe, Ama
Summary: "Ama Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 CODSimms, Ami
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mallery Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SIMAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYAly, Götz
Summary: "A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0049 ALYBrown, Aly
Summary: Alvin Submersible, a deep-sea vessel that can sink miles below the surface, takes readers on a tour of the ocean floor where they will explore underwater volcanoes, discover lost hydrogen bombs, hear about storied shipwrecks and meet hundreds of new species living far beneath the waves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J623.82 BROSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TUSKEGEEWalsh, Amy (Amy Simpson)
Summary: Helps you learn how to create colour-splashed quilts with a modern edge. In this title, each design includes fabric requirements and detailed cutting instructions for multiple quilt sizes, and expert hints and tips to make sure you make the best quilt possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C & T Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 WALButcher, Amy
Summary: "In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, AMY BUTHammer, Amy
Summary: "People have probably told you (usually over and over) that having a baby can be hard. Pregnancy can be uncomfortable, birth almost unbearably painful, breastfeeding challenging and nights long and sleepless. And while some of these were sometimes true and there were many dirty diapers and hours of cluster feeding early on, I found that knowing some of the why behind the sensations in my body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 HAMMcDonald, Amy
Summary: "Developed by literacy experts in partnership with educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to trains through simple, predictable text and related photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021
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Summary: "The emergence of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have awakened society and encouraged women to find their voice and claim their power. Contending with a host of difficult issues-- from sexual assault on college campuses, to equal pay and pay gaps, to mastering different negotiation styles-- demands psychological toughness. Morin turns her focus to feminism, and gives women the techniques to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Offers advice on the challenges involved in learning to play a musical instrument, including tips from teenage musicians and professional musicians about practicing, performing, and buying equipment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.143 NATRamos, Amy
Summary: Eat healthier, lose weight, trim your waistline--it sounds so simple. And yet, the CDC reports that more than one third of Americans face significant weight loss challenges--with nearly 1 in 20 suffering from type 2 diabetes--and have yet to find a solution that works. When on the ketogenic diet, you're simply using your body's own natural response to certain foods in order to burn unwanted fat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 RAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 RAMStein, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.7 STEStewart, Amy.
Summary: In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes-creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 632.7 STEWebb, Amy
Summary: "A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 WEBWenzel, Amy
Summary: From the cover. The most dreaded misfortune for couples who want children is infertility, miscarriage, or the loss of a baby shortly after birth. Individuals who experience such reproductive losses are unmoored both by sorrow and by the lack of established rituals for expressing their grief. Clinical psychologist Amy Wenzel has helped countless couples who have endured reproductive trauma. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amer Psychological Assn 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.39 WENAndrews, Amy
Summary: "If Ramanujan could crack the number 1 open and find infinity, what secrets would he discover inside other numbers?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAMArgetsinger, Amy
Summary: An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.6 ARGBarickman, Amy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Martingale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.48 BARChua, Amy.
Summary: Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 CHUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents ChuaEhrlich, Amy
Summary: Nineteen of the best-known fairy tales, including "Rapunzel," "Beauty and the Beast," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1985
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 EHRCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 RanGoldman, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2002