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Summary: "A comprehensive and easy guide to bringing wild food indoors and new life to your cooking. Many home cooks want to experiment with wild foods and explore new flavors, but don't know where to start--The Forager's Pantry was written for you. This comprehensive and accessible book by Ellen Zachos takes readers through spices and herbs, flowers, fruit, greens, nuts and seeds, tubes and roots, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8092 DOUGrashin, Merrily
Summary: The perfect mix of punny humor, feminist verve, and practical instruction, Women's Libation! is a cocktail guide for the lady who likes to shake things up (and not just her martinis). In it, Brooklyn-based illustrator and long-time bartender Merrily Grashin toasts the feminist heroes who've come before us and the social movements that have helped shape us, honoring each with a delicious,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 GRAMorrill, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morrill 2013Douglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 DouMerrill, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 MERMerrell, Billy
Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 MerrillMerriam, Eve
Contents: Eliza Southgate (1783-1809): schoolgirl.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): founder of the women's suffrage movement.--Maria Mitchell (1818-1889): astronomer.--Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (1836-1887): wife of a Confederate officer.--Arvazine Angeline Cooper (1845-1929): pioneer across the plains.--Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): minister and doctor.--Susie King Taylor (1848-1912): born a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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Summary: ""In the last six years, Colorado has seen a population boom reminiscent of the state's first few years of settlement. But rather than staking mining claims or establishing homesteads, these new pioneers are on the frontier of an emerging science: marijuana as treatment for various debilitating conditions. This book contains personal accounts from doctors, researchers, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toplight 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 FERSchindler, Meriel
Summary: "An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family's fate in Innsbruck and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SCHGrindle, Merilee Serrill
Summary: "The gripping story of the trailblazing Zelia Nuttall, whose decoding of Aztec cosmology, rigorous fieldwork, and passion for collecting helped shape our understanding of Mexico's pre-Columbian past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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Summary: Lessons in being an effective leader in any field or activity, based on the leadership principles used by Sir Ernest Shackleton from 1914-1916 to preserve himself and the lives of his crew as they were stranded on an Arctic ice flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4012 MORFoster, Leila Merrell.
Contents: Where is Antarctica? -- Ice sheeet -- South Pole -- Weather -- Mountains -- Ice -- Glaciers -- Oceans and seas -- Animals -- Plants -- Explorers -- All the countries -- Science -- Fast facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2001
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Contents: Where is South America? -- Weather -- Mountains and deserts -- Rivers -- Lakes -- Animals -- Plants -- Languages -- Cities -- In the country -- Famous places -- Fast facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 950 FOSFoster, Leila Merrell.
Summary: Follows the life and political career of Great Britain's first female prime minister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1990
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Summary: Compelling narrative nonfiction text introduces the crew members of the Titanic, including details about their occupations, efforts to rescue passengers, and the dangers they faced at sea. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, historical photos, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source notes, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2016
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Summary: Shares the life of the abolitionist, including his life as a slave, how he learned to read even though it was illegal for him to do so, and his work speaking out against slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Jump at the Sun 2015
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Summary: This story imagines what it was like when Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass got together for a cup of tea and discussed their struggle for civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DOUGLASS, RUTH ROOTerrell, Brandon.
Summary: Compelling narrative nonfiction text introduces the first-class passengers on the Titanic, including details about their experiences aboard the historic ship, tragic losses, and dramatic stories of survival. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, historical photos, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill 2003