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Summary: The biography of Jeanne Villepreux-Power whose curiosity about undersea life led her to pioneer the use of glass tanks for research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POWGriffith, Victoria.
Summary: Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011
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Summary: "The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 GRIGriffith, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chapters 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.8 GriffHughes, Evan
Summary: "The blistering inside story of a startup that made millions pushing opioids-until its cutthroat tactics were exposed and its executives put behind bars John Kapoor had amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he conceived of a new product. It was the 2000s, and opioids were big business. If Kapoor, an immigrant and the billionaire founder of Insys, could find a new way to administer the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: "Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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Summary: From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: LP 973.891 THOTurk, Evan
Summary: In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cobblemead Publications 1998
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Summary: "Star of Animal Planet's Evan Goes Wild and People magazine's "Pet Vet" Dr. Evan Antin takes readers beyond his viral Instagram posts right into the wild world with him. World Wild Vet is an up close and personal look at planet earth, in all its wild glory. But beyond the laugh-out-loud stories and dangerous encounters with some of our planet's most exotic creatures, it is a clarion call to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Presents a guide to the meanings and stories behind over 125 well known brand names, arranged by product type, and includes food, clothes, cars, household furnishings, and cell phones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.827 MORThomas, Evan
Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D THOThomas, Evan
Summary: "This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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Contents: Land and people -- Values and attitudes -- Festivals and traditions -- Making friends -- At home -- Time out -- Travel, health, and safety -- Business briefing -- Communicating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.37 CZEAmidon, Ervan L. (Ervan Lloyd)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anundsen Pub. Co. 2007
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Summary: "The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux--the creator of a powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of painkillers to American customers. It would not stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 RATThompson, Evan
Summary: A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 THOEisenberg, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 EISHadingham, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 936 HADMorris, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 422 MOROsnos, Evan
Summary: "Illuminates Biden's long and eventful career in the Senate, his eight years as Obama's vice president, his sojourn in the political wilderness after being passed over for Hillary Clinton in 2016, his decision to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency,and his choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Osnos ponders the difficulties Biden will face if elected and weighs how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Summary: A narrative investigation into the generic drug boom by an award-winning Fortune reporter draws on exclusive accounts and extensive confidential FDA documents to expose life-threatening practices of global fraud, data manipulation and unsafe medicine production. 150,000 first printing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019