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bibliography Biographies. biography festschrift Fiction. Hebrew poetry. Juvenile works. novel Poetry. Poésie.Thibault, Simon
Summary: "What is Acadian food? It is humble, homey, and comforting. It is made with love and devotion from a larder that is small but mighty, and holds history within itself. And it is made to be eaten. In Pantry and Palate, journalist Simon Thibault explores his Acadian roots by scouring old family recipes, ladies' auxiliary cookbooks, and folk wisdom for 50 of the best-loved recipes of Acadians past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 THIAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDEPeres, Shimon
Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PERSeton, Susannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SETAmmon, Harry
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JAMES AmmDuffy, Eamon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUFSimonds, Nina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6383 SIMAral, 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 ARAMiura, Shion
Summary: A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIUShea, Ammon
Summary: "The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 SHESobon, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Garden Way Pub. 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 694.2 SOBBigon, Mario.
Summary: Here is an entirely different kind of knot book! For the first time, here are step-by-step instructions that take full advantage of color photography to teach the art of tying knots. Unlike illustrations in other books, these pictures show every step looking over the shoulder of the tier -- the way you see the knot as you make it. And when two or more ropes are involved, they are color coded so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8 BIGSimic, Charles
Summary: A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy, photography to Simic's childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, each work demonstrates the qualities that make Simic's poetry so brilliant yet accessible. Whether he is revealing the influence of literature on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.4 SIMSibony, Olivier
Summary: The author, a strategy professor and management consultant, shares forty methods for improving an organization's decision-making process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.403 SIBSisson, Mark
Summary: Presents a program for improving health that consists of a natural foods diet, a fitness plan that balances low- and high-intensity exercises, and lifestyle changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Primal Nutrition 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SISMaimon, Alan
Summary: An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist gives us a profound understanding the Central Appalachia region from his years of careful reporting that paints a portrait of a people staring down some of the most destructive forces at work in America today
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.097 MAISisman, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOSWELL, JAMES SISSlomon, Evelyne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.824 SLOSimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: Presents an overview of acrostic poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHISimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: Discover fascinating facts, figures, and pictures while learning about the most interesting and extreme jobs that use math. Find out what kind of training it takes to be a stunt coordinator, how much money a cryptologist makes, and exactly what in the world a fluid mechanics engineer does!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Jobs SimonsSimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: "In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SIMSimons, Gerald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018