Lassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASThrall, Nathan
Summary: "Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 THRBoughton, Simon
Summary: "At the time of its completion in 1936, Hoover Dam was the biggest dam in the world and the largest feat of architecture and engineering in the country--a statement of national ambition and technical achievement. It turned the wild Colorado River into a tame and securely managed water source, transforming millions of acres of desert into farmland while also providing water and power to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 627.82 BOUPenney, Darby.
Summary: Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 PENBishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: "One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits the death of Zionist leader Avraham Stern-- head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang-- at the hand of a British policeman during WW II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BISAdaf, 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 ADAHobkirk, Lori.
Summary: "Starting a successful business is not an easy task. It was even more difficult for a Black woman to accomplish this in the 1900s. Yet, this is what Madam C.J. Walker did"--Page 5.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WALRingstad, Arnold
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Hoover Dam. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMDe Semlyen, Nick
Summary: "Wild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes 21 years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other, their illustrious careers, triumphs and prat falls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous '80s, delving behind the scenes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 DESRasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl)
Summary: "David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 192 RASAmidon, Ervan L. (Ervan Lloyd)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anundsen Pub. Co. 2007
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PABST AmidonRobillard, Evie
Summary: "Poems, paintings and Paris all come to life in this enchanting picture book biography of Gertrude Stein. This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROBKelley, True.
Summary: "This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ADAMSO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOBrookhiser, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 BROBrookhiser, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROAguon, Julian
Summary: "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 AGUDecker, William A.
Contents: Construction of the asylum (Building 50) -- The colony system (cottages) -- Mental health statutes -- Governance -- Administrative support services -- Additions and improvements to the asylum -- Farming operations -- Non-patient buildings -- Employee living quarters -- Closing of the hospital : divesiture, demolition, preservation, and restoration -- Causes of mental illness(es) -- Treatment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010
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Ball, Erica
Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MILHiltzik, Michael A.
Summary: The definitive account of the epic construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the the twentieth century's most consequential public works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 627.82 HILHale, Nathan
Summary: ""Remember the Alamo!" That rallying cry has been a part of Texas lore for generations. But who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the famous slogan, and how did they end up barricaded in a fort against a Mexican army? Who survived, who died, and how? This sixth book in the bestselling Hazardous Tales series tracks the Lone Star State's bloody fight for independence from the Mexican...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: An imaginary journey to Saturn provides facts about the planet's rings, moon, composition, years, days, and storms, and suggests some of the questions scientists would want to answer if it really were possible to travel there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2012
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Summary: "Learn about Saturn's vast and beautiful network of rings, and see how it is similar to or different from other planets. Updated scientific discoveries accompany this lively text for beginning readers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2021