Gomes, Peter J.
Summary: The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today from the preacher to Harvard University, a man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America. "The theme of this book," writes Peter Gomes in his introduction, "is the risk and the joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh. It is around this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 GOMGomes, Peter J.
Summary: Addresses key issues in the modern church and explores the dangers of focusing excessively on the Bible, in a spiritual resource that seeks to illuminate what the author believes to be Jesus's original transformative and revolutionary message of hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 226.06 GOMMcKenna, James J. (James Joseph)
Summary: "Throughout history and across cultures, sleeping with your baby has been the norm, yet today the practice is fraught with questions, fear, and guilt. Parents are left exhausted, and those who cherish the closeness of cosleeping find themselves doubting their parental instincts. In Safe Infant Sleep, a globally recognized cosleeping authority breaks down the complicated political and social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Platypus Media, LLC 2020
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Summary: Describes the relationship between siblings and the things they share, including parents, problems, and personal space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 2010
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Life CristHarford, James J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 HARCrist, James J.
Summary: "Friendships make us happier and healthier. Friends improve our self-esteem and help us live longer--it's true! Whether kids find socializing as natural as smiling or as hard as learning a foreign language, this book can help them improve their social skills so they can better enjoy the benefits of friendship. Practical advice covers everything from breaking the ice to developing friendships to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2014
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Summary: In 1905, eight men from the California Academy of Sciences set sail from San Francisco for a scientific collection expedition in the Galapagos Islands, and by the time they were finished in 1906, they had completed one of the most important expeditions in the history of both evolutionary and conservation science. These scientists collected over 78,000 specimens during their time on the islands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1980
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Summary: Discusses the behavior, health, intellectual development, and personal relationships of seven-year-old children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.124 AMEWorden, J. William (James William)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 WORMalgieri, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8653 MALMalgieri, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 MALBrowne, E. J. (E. Janet)
Summary: Darwin's foremost biographer, historian Janet Browne, delivers an accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 BROBrennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James)
Summary: "A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRECooper, William J. (William James)
Summary: Presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 COOGiddings, J. Louis (James Louis)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 GIDMacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard)
Summary: "An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MACCooper, William J. (William James)
Summary: "West Point graduate, secretary of war under President Pierce, U.S. senator from Mississippi - how was it that this statesman and patriot came to be president of the Confederacy, leading the struggle to destroy the United States? This is the question at the center of William Cooper's biography of Jefferson Davis. Basing his account on the massive archival record left by Davis and his family and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVDaughton, J. P. (James Patrick)
Summary: "The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.096 DAUPreston, Christopher J. (Christopher James)
Summary: "Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlife populations have reached numbers unimaginable in a century. Red deer in Europe, bison in North America, humpback whales in the Atlantic. They have all seen their populations explode. They are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.97 PRELang, Robert J. (Robert James)
Summary: Instructions for twenty models: treehopper, spotted ladybug, orb weaver, tarantula, tick, ant, butterfly, scarab beetle, cicada, grasshopper, black pine sawyer, dragonfly, hercules beetle, long-necked seed bug, pill bug, praying mantis, stag beetle, paper wasp, samurai helmet beetle, and scorpion; all folded from a single square of paper with no cuts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.982 LANSimon, Rita J. (Rita James)
Contents: Introduction, by R. J. Simon.--Radicalism in the thirties: the Trotskyist view, by M. Shachtman.--The Huey Long movement, by G. L. K. Smith.--Writers in the thirties, by G. Hicks.--The thirties in America as a Socialist recalls them, by N. Thomas.--My experience in the labor and radical struggles of the thirties, by A. J. Muste.--The student movement of the thirties: a political history, by H....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1967
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Summary: Picture-book biography presents the life of James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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Summary: "Introduces the reader to tigers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018