Kershenbaum, Arik
Summary: "From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 KERGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRAAndrews, Arin.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ANDPrather, Aric
Summary: "From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 PRAWeinzweig, Ari
Summary: In “Going into Business with Emma Goldman,” Ari brings together two seemingly incompatible approaches—the century-old, revolutionary, anarchist beliefs of Emma Goldman and the idea of implementing them in the business world with which she was, for most of her life, at odds. As Ari imagines it, the pamphlet is “an adventure in intellectual time travel—an uplifting, anarchist fable for the modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zingerman's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 WEITurner, Myra Faye
Summary: "In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools had to allow Black students to attend previously all-white schools. On September 4, 1957, nine Black students were set to attend Little Rock Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. But when they arrived, an angry mob of white people spat at them and hurled racist insults. They were also prevented from entering the school by the National Guard....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 379.2 TURArbic, Bernard.
Summary: In 1855, the first State Lock opened to tame the roaring rapids at Sault Ste. Marie. It was a key that would unlock the mineral riches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In honor of the 150th anniversary of that engineering feat, Bernie Arbic (author of two previous books about the region) has teamed up with Nancy Steinhaus to tell the colorful story of the Soo Canal and its impact on the world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Priscilla Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 ARBAral, 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 ARAArch, Liz
Summary: Offers an integrated approach to healing from trauma. Helps you to take control of your own healing and reclaim wholeness with movement, mindfulness, and nutrition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med AremWhite, Arisa
Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MASArce, Julissa
Summary: "Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce interweaves her own story with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of ouruniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. "You sound like a white girl." These were the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ARCArem, 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 AREShavit, Ari
Summary: "Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, My Promised Land is a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and profound historical dimensions. As Ar Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: why did Israel come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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Contents: A community in Michigan -- Andrew P. Kehoe -- Dawn of a decade -- New man in town -- The Bath Consolidated School -- A growing storm -- Electricity -- A school, a farm -- The valley of the shadow of death -- Requiems -- In the matter of the inquest as to the cause of death of Emery E. Huyck, deceased -- Summer -- Tulips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 2009
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.40 Bernstein 2009Kriechbaumer, Armin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.755 KRIRalston, Aron.
Summary: A mountaineer who survived a near-fatal accident by amputating his arm when it became trapped behind a boulder in Utah describes how he endured five days of hypothermia, dehydration, and hallucinations before managing his own rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival RalstonVolz, Alia
Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOLZ, ALIA VOLMooney, Chris (Chris C.)
Summary: Journalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. They go on to propose a broad array of initiatives that could lead to a greater integration of science into the national discourse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.73 MOOBrynjolfsson, Erik.
Summary: A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BRYLarson, Erik
Summary: "On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 LARLarson, Erik.
Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LARLarson, Erik.
Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. - goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime LarsonPrince, Erik
Summary: The founder of Blackwater, the world's most controversial military contractor, describes how the company took on high-risk security jobs around the world, completing nearly 100,000 missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have opponents tarnish their reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013