Suri, Jeremi
Summary: "In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SURSiri, Ken
Summary: The latest research shows that more than 1 in 50 boys in the US now has autism, and the number keeps rising. Parents of these boys become full-time researchers, always looking for the latest information on doctors, education, and treatments. Following countless hours of study, Ken Siri is sharing what he has learned. In 101 Tips for the Parents of Boys with Autism you will learn about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85882 SIRSlezkine, Yuri
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SLESolden, Sari
Summary: Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide will show you how to cultivate your individual strengths, honor your neurodiversity, and learn to communicate with confidence and clarity. A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD is the first guided workbook for women with ADHD designed to break the cycle of negative self-talk and shame-based narratives that stem from the common and limiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 SOLEszterhas, Suzi
Summary: "Pangolins are one of the most poached animals in the world. Yet scientists know very little about them. Discover how pangolin rescuers and researchers such as Thai Nguyen are working to protect these mysterious creatures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.3 ESZShepphird, Sari Fine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8526 SHEHustvedt, Siri
Summary: A radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy reflects the author's explorations into the workings of human perception and how they are reflected by gender bias, the mind-body challenge, and neurological disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HUSHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. Then the seizures happened again and again. This book tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 HUSBrown, Curt
Contents: Storm within the storm -- The Mataafa -- The scow, the Umbria, and the Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 BROFuria, Philip
Summary: Traces the history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42164 FUROurs, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.4 OURRahula, Walpola Sri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.38 RAHCurl, Jami
Summary: This game-changing candy cookbook from the owner of Quin, a popular Portland-based candy company, offers more than 200 achievable recipes using real, natural ingredients for everything from flavor-packed fruit lollipops to light-as-air marshmallows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.85 CURMura, David
Summary: "From the country's founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present. Mura shows how deeply we need to change our racial narratives to dissolve the myth of Whiteness and fully acknowledge the experiences of Black Americans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURBurr, Chandler
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURMirpuri, Gouri
Summary: "Although at times religious and ethnic tensions have risen to the surface, Indonesians live in relative harmony and have developed a distinct Indonesian identity since becoming an independent republic in 1949. With its multi-party democracy and free elections, modern Indonesia is a much more politically mature and tolerant place than it was during the Suharto era, when authoritarian one-party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.8 MIRGury, Al.
Summary: "This guide explores one of the great traditions of Western painting: alla prima, or direct, painting. Bold brushwork and a painterly surface are the hallmarks of this renowned technique, and one of the great masters of alla prima was Arthur DeCosta, the legendary Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts teacher." "In Alla Prima, author Al Gury reveals the step-by-step lessons he learned in his years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751 Gury 2008Kurki, Kim
Summary: A visual introduction to more than one hundred different bird species profiles the physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats of each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub 2014
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Summary: Suggests safe, natural ways to overcome insomnia without drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1996
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Summary: A literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "A guide to herbal and holistic medicine for brain health and neurologic disorders. Provides detailed herbal, antioxidant, and nutritional strategies for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, stroke, migraine, and seizures. Supported by scientific studies and years of successful clinical practice. Discusses potential side effects, counter-indications, and the proper dosages to reduce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healing Arts Press 2016
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Summary: A portrait of the legendary country music star is told through lyrical free verse that conveys information about his impoverished childhood and the extraordinary talent that enabled his career and rise to success on the world stage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CASNeri, Greg
Summary: Long before they became one of the most beloved and successful duos of all time, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were just two kids growing up in Queens, New York -- best friends who met in a sixth-grade production of Alice in Wonderland and bonded over girls, baseball, and rock'n'roll
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: A former ocean biologist describes how she rediscovered her passion for marine science while investigating the enigmatic jellyfish and what the species' unique physiologies can teach about engineering and environmental stability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017