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(Greek mythological character) Heracles Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Cooking Edible landscaping Fathers and daughters Comic books, strips, etc Gardening Illegitimate children Comic books, strips, etc Plants, Edible Plot-your-own stories Presidents United States BiographyAbriel, Anita
Summary: "It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Abriel 2019Granström, Brita
Summary: Packed with all kinds of exciting outdoor activities for children and the whole family, to encourage awareness of the natural world, to develop self-sufficiency skills â?? and to show how much fun it is to explore nature. The activities include: tracking skills; wildlife spotting; foraging for wild food and cooking outdoors; how to light a fire safely (with adult supervision); stargazing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2015
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Summary: The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROEM, DANICA ROESummary: Explores the life of Brion Gysin, inventor of a hypnotic light device called the Dreammachine, which was intended to induce hallucinations and transform consciousness. Nik Sheehan interviews some of the '60s counter-culture's most eccentric icons including Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithful and Marcus boon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind. 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLIManning, Mick
Summary: "An exciting, action-packed introduction to prehistory, from first life on Earth to the beginning of recorded history." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Otter-Barry Books, Little Orchard 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930 MANManning, Mick.
Summary: A book of dinosaur activities that includes making a dinosaur park or moblie and movable dioramas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 745.5 MANBaier, Bret
Summary: January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EISENHOWERBaier, Bret
Summary: On May 31, 1988, Reagan addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, with a remarkable -- yet now largely forgotten -- speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 BAISummary: If you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Sound and fury is the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture, and their bonds with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUBaier, Bret
Summary: November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BAIBaier, Bret
Summary: George Washington rescued the nation three times: first by leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, second by presiding over the Constitutional Convention that set the blueprint for the United States and ushering the Constitution through a fractious ratification process, and third by leading the nation as its first president. After the War of Independence, the states...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 BAIBaier, Bret
Summary: "From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. BAIBried, Erin.
Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for more than one hundred basic domestic life skills from building a fire and hemming pants to rolling a pie crust and planting a vegetable garden, in a guide that includes tips for saving money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 BRIUnita, Yumi
Summary: Returning to his family's estate for his grandfather's funeral, thirty-something bachelor Daikichi is floored to discover that the old man had an illegitimate child with a much younger lover! Needless to say, the rest of the family is shocked and embarrassed by this turn of events, and not one of them wants anything to do with the little girl, who refuses to say a word. In a fit of angry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNBrimm,Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tidal Creek Press 2004
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Summary: "Introduces readers to the basic features of a recipe, such as ingredient lists and the importance of following directions in order. Readers will learn how to measure liquids and solids and follow steps chronologically"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J005.118 CWUnita, Yumi.
Summary: "Like a plot out of a soap opera, bachelor Daikichi Kawachi's boringly normal life got a touch of the abnormal when he learned that his late granddad left behind a love child. And further rattling the unexpected skeleton in the closet? The ungainly, unglamorous Daikichi's impulsive decision to take in little Rin! But as the impromptu dad and his charge learn to adapt to both one another and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNOelschlager, Vanita.
Summary: Presents several humorously illustrated food-related idioms, along with explanations of what they mean and examples of how they are used.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanita Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.313 OELArthur, Brie
Summary: "Once upon a time, veggie gardens lived in the backyard, isolated from the rest of the landscape. that's so yesterday! Welcome to a whole new world of food gardening--right up front, sharing space with your ornamental plants for year-round, knockout beauty and function...in a way that even homeowners associations (HOAs) would approve."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Lynns Press 2017
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Summary: Mistakenly believing himself to be an emu, a newly-hatched platypus sets out on a long journey, using various forms of transportation and aided by new friends, to reach Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: "Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Hercules and his 12 labors in You Choose format"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FAJUnita, Yumi
Summary: "Rin and Daikichi have weathered many storms together, but Rin's realization that she see Daikicki--the man who has raised her as a father--in a romantic light, may cast their little family adrift for good. Now, Rin must make a choice, one that will forever change the life she has come to know...."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNUnita, Yumi
Summary: Ten years have flown by since Daikichi first met Rin at his grandfather's funeral. Rin has blossomed into a smart, capable teen-ager, but the trails and tribulations of high school and adolescence await.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNUnita, Yumi
Summary: Returning to his family's estate for his grandfather's funeral, thirty-something bachelor Daikichi is floored to discover that the old man had an illegitimate child with a much younger lover! Needless to say, the rest of the family is shocked and embarrassed by this turn of events, and not one of them wants anything to do with the little girl, who refuses to say a word. In a fit of angry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2011