Glassberg, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.789 GLABehrens, Ken.
Summary: Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a mystery. The keys to the mystery—the subtle traits that unlock the identity of flying waterbirds, be it wingbeat cadence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 BEHWhite, Mel
Summary: A guide for beginning and intermediate birders describes the best birding spots in the eastern U.S. and includes species lists, descriptions of birds and their behavior, and tips on the best times to visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 WHIHospodar, George
Summary: "This trip resulted in their first book, Reflection on America's Great Loop, a personal, light-hearted, real-life account of the couple's travels while circumnavigating the waters of the United States and Canada. Their newest book, The Great Loop Experience--from Concept to Completion, is a comprehensive guide written to help others plan, prepare, and successfully execute their own Great Loop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 NORZimmerman, Karla
Summary: Highlights the eastern U.S.'s top travel experiences, providing a monthly calendar of popular events, road trip and scenic drive ideas, and information on sights, dining, accommodations, shopping, and entertainment in each area profiled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USACalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CALPerrier, Dianne.
Contents: The Great Warriors Trace -- New York : wars for an empire -- Pennsylvania : the nation's arsenal -- Maryland : grand anticipation -- West Virginia : fearful reality -- The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia : seeing the elephant -- Southwestern Virginia : themarch of the elephant ends -- Tennessee : when cloudshadows pass -- Annihilating space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 PERShaffer, Lynda
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 SHAFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEHerold, Benjamin
Summary: "Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: "The compulsively readable, definitive account of the greatest era of the most influential league in college basketball history, infused with the raucous spirit and roaring voices of the league's legendary coaches and players. There has never been, nor will there ever be, another league quite like the Big East. Five Big East schools have won national college basketball titles, and five coaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 O'NESnyder, Lynsi
Summary: "When Lynsi Snyder's grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining first-hand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SNYCook, Langdon
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food : salmon. For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild--thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV, perhaps. For others, it's the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep red fillet at the market. For others still, it's the jolt of adrenaline on a successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 COOOffley, Edward.
Summary: "On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars OffleyDutt, Yashica
Summary: "Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear "Dalit looking." Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2004
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Summary: "When Spanish gold is found on the North Carolina coast, your mind begins to race. Through your studies, you know that the infamous pirate Blackbeard was active in that area in the 1700s. Could this be the first clue to finding his long-lost treasure? It's up to YOU to find out! With dozens of choices and clues to follow, which path will YOU choose to dig up the riches left behind by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TROSwift, Earl
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 New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SWIBurgess, Douglas R.
Summary: "From previously undiscovered archives in England, the Carolinas, Rhode Island, Jamaica, and elsewhere, Douglas Burgess has synthesized a fascinating retelling of the "Golden Age of Piracy", from 1660 to 1725. Pirates needed patrons, the fragile American colonies needed maritime wealth and coastal protection, and everyone except the English crown benefited from untaxed and unregulated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 BURWhite, Tracy (Tracy A.)
Summary: "This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 362.7 WHIKleinknecht, William
Summary: "In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and health care, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023