Nathan, Amy Sue
Summary: When her mother-in-law signs her up for etiquette lessons conducted by tutor Lillian Diamond, Ruth Appelbaum rebels against convention, inviting Lillian and the Diamond Girls to challenge what others expect from them, discover what they expect from themselves and do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction NathanNathan, Amy.
Summary: Offers advice on the challenges involved in learning to play a musical instrument, including tips from teenage musicians and professional musicians about practicing, performing, and buying equipment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.143 NATNathan, Amy.
Summary: Dancers from all kinds of backgrounds talk about their different paths to success as ballerinas, modern dancers, music video performers, and Broadway showstoppers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NATNathan, Amy
Summary: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Dry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 NATRooks, A.E.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Black Joke, a ship in the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and its quest to liberate as many enslaved people as possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 ROOSu, Amy Jen
Summary: "You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can't add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising your health, relationships, and integrity? No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you feel the flow. You're able to make a difference...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business SuStreep, Abe
Summary: "From journalist Abe Streep, the story of coming of age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a community March 11, 2017, was a night to remember: in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.85 STRCoe, Jonathan
Summary: In the summer of 1977, a young woman named Calista finds work on famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder's film set. The filming takes them to Munich, where Wilder grapples with his family history. This tender and intimate novel examines the nature of time and fame, of family, and of the treacherous lure of nostalgia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COELaufe, Abe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funk & Wagnalls 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.81 LAUPeña, Abe M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Grande Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.9 PENLangley, Sharon
Summary: "When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LANNabhan, Chadi
Summary: "A behind-the-scenes look inside the three trials involving a popular weed killer (Roundup), cancer, and the search for justice--written by a physician expert witness who saw it all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 NABLao, She
Summary: Stories by a Chinese writer. They range from A Man Who Doesn't Lie, which is a caricature of a habitual liar, to The Grand Opening, on a hospital which gives VD patients injections of tea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAONabhan, Gary Paul.
Summary: "How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding." This book draws upon the wisdom and technical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631 NABNabhan, Gary Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 NABSuen, Anastasia.
Summary: Describes how electricity is conducted and follows its route from a power plant to the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 621.319 SUECodjoe, Ama
Summary: "Ama Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 CODSimms, Ami
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mallery Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SIMNabhan, Gary Paul.
Summary: The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.632 NABSuh, Krista
Summary: From the creator of the Pussyhat Project comes a manifesto for every woman to create her own distinct and original path to joy, success, and impact. On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly found its place on the cover of TIME and the New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social SuhSze, Arthur
Summary: "From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2019
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Summary: Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and present-day status of the various native peoples that inhabited the eastern woodlands since before the coming of the Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.4 YULNabhan, Gary Paul.
Contents: Introduction -- Discerning the histories encoded in our bodies -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial Eve and Java Man feast on the same foods? -- Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- . The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines -- Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Dealing with migration headaches --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2004