Proulx, Annie
Summary: From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.41 PRORastorfer, Darl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 624.2 RASProulx, Annie.
Summary: "Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Summary: An anthology of short stories, all set in Wyoming, features characters who have a profound effect on the people around them, in such tales as "The Trickle Down Effect," "The Contest," and "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROLarsen, Darl
Summary: "A fascinating look at the history of film and television animation in the United States, from the animated comic strips of the early 1900s to the proliferation of animation companies and hit films of the present"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LAREarls, Felton
Summary: "Young people have the potential to educate and inspire their communities, if only adults will listen to them. Felton Earls and Mary Carlson have spent decades listening to children and encouraging them to use their voices for social change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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Summary: Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21st century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by the nation's largest estuary, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 639.56 SWISwift, Earl
Summary: "In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle-were the pinnacle of human exploration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 SWIEarl, Rae
Summary: Rae Earl offers her personalized advice on the A to Zs of mental health, social media, family and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613 EARMindell, Earl
Summary: "When most people have allergies, they know it. Symptoms come quickly and can range from mild reactions like sneezing and itching to severe, often debilitating effects like anaphylaxis. Millions of others, however, suffer from allergies and don't even know it. Allergies and intolerances are often the hidden culprits that lie at the heart of a number of health conditions. If you are an allergy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 MINSwift, Earl
Summary: Follows auto mechanic Tommy Arney as he painstakingly attempts to restores a classic 1957 Chevy to its former glory, all while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2222 SWIProust, Marcel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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Summary: Discusses how stress affects teenagers and the different ways it can be managed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 2008
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Summary: On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SWIMacken, JoAnn Early
Summary: A brief description of calves, bulls, and walking through deep snow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weekly Reader Early Learning Library 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.651 MACRice, Earle.
Summary: Discusses the events leading to the trial of Nazi war criminals after World War II and analyzes both the Allied prosecution and the German defense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.69 RICEEarly, Steve
Summary: The People vs. Big Oil--how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Discusses the people and events involved in Japan's decision to attack on Pearl Harbor, which forced the United States to enter World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.54 RICDabney, Joseph Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5974 DABHaynes, John Earl.
Contents: Early Cold War spy cases -- The precursors -- Elizabeth Bentley: the case of the blond spy queen -- The Alger Hiss--Whittaker Chambers case -- The atomic espionage cases -- Judith Coplon: the spy who got away with it -- The Soble-Soblen case: last of the early Cold War spy trials -- The decline of the ideological spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.131 HAYMacken, JoAnn Early
Summary: A brief description of cubs, dens, and hibernating through the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weekly Reader Early Learning 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.78 MACMacken, JoAnn Early.
Summary: This book describes where roadrunners live, what they eat, and how they adapt to an arid environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weekly Reader Early Learning Library 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.7 MACSproule-Jones, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: UBC Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9163 SPRHess, Earl J.
Contents: All we were told was to write a movie -- The reason we had such good musicals -- Out of thin air you make a moment dance -- Their feet do all the work -- Come on with the rain -- Everything but dancing -- Gotta dance! -- Best musical comedy I've seen -- You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams -- Legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2009