Laclos, Choderlos de
Summary: "Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACMcCullers, Carson.
Summary: Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullerswas equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writingin shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MCCZachos, Ellen.
Summary: Provides more than forty projects for novice gardeners, including an introduction to potting flowers, drawing in hummingbirds, and picking out cat-friendly plants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.01 LAWZachos, Ellen
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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Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: Details how to forage, harvest, and prepare a number of edible plants typically found in suburban or urban neighborhoods, and includes information on regional locations, avoiding pesticides, and harvesting etiquette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.303 ZACLachs, Mark.
Summary: A manual for boomers and their parents to take control of their health in a broken health-care system. Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "ageist" medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 LACLawlor, Laurie.
Summary: Profiles six women scientists who persevered in the face of prejudice, including ichthyologist Eugenie Clark and mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 1997
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Summary: Introduces common living things that continue to make a living during the winter and suggests activities for discovering what each creature looks like, where it lives, and how it survives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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Summary: John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W.C. Fields, and Woody Allen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1982
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.5 PAUEde, Georgia
Summary: "We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis: -More than one in six American adults now take psychiatric medication. -The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is expected to triple by 2050. -Depression is now the number one cause of disability in the world. -The COVID-19 pandemic has quadrupled reports of anxiety and depression. Although medications may ease suffering for some, in Change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balance 2024
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Summary: "In How to Human, author and social media personality Carlos Whitaker leads us on a three-part journey, to "be," "see," and "free," that we can pursue in order to all live together as the best versions of ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2023
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Summary: The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that the response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020