Fotheringham, Alasdair
Summary: The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 FOTMacleod, Alasdair.
Summary: A lavish visual survey of the world's greatest explorers, revealing who they were, where they went, and how their expeditions shaped the course of human history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK in association with the Smithsonian Institution 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 910.922 MACBright, Anna
Summary: "Magic is fading from Wales--choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BRIBonnett, Alastair
Summary: "The real-life answers to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett's tour of the planet's most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 BONGee, Alastair
Summary: Bay Area-based reporters for The Guardian Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano relate the story of the worst American wildfire in a century, weaving together a portrait of the remarkable California community of 27,000 souls, destroyed wholesale in a fire that left 86 dead, while offering a bigger-picture exploration of the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change. Alastair Gee is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 904 GEEReynolds, Alastair
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA SF REYDuncan, Alastair
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1980
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 748.5913 DUNSawday, Alastair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alastair Sawday Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.46 SAWBright, Michael.
Summary: Discusses past and present treatment of the endangered polar bear and examines current efforts to protect it in its natural habitat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gloucester Press 1989
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.74 BRIBinns, Brigit Legere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Source 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.812 BINBlight, David W.
Summary: Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 BLIBrichto, Sidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pilkington Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 BRIDuncan, Alastair
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 748.5 DUNHull, Alastair
Summary: Bold, distinctive patterns; brilliant colors; astonishingly diverse decoration; affordability - these are some of the characteristics that explain the popularity of the marvelous flatwoven textiles from the Near and Far East known in the West as kilims. In recent years, demand for them has reached unprecedented levels, fueled by a new recognition of the special qualities of handmade ethnic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.72 HULReynolds, Alastair
Summary: Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYBright, Michael
Summary: Explores the history of human origins, highlighting such early humans as Ardipithecus, Homo habilis, Neanderthals, and Homo erectus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: words & pictures 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 569.9 BRIBright, Michael.
Summary: Introduces the concept of extinction, discussing how extinction occurs, mass extinctions from the Earth's past and possible explanations, extinctions caused by humans, and current efforts to protect the endangered species of the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.84 BRIBright,Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIST Publishing 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.14 BrighDuncan, Alastair
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter 1982
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Summary: This book reveals what employers are actually looking for and how the hiring process really works. With examples of resumes that employers love (and those they loathe), you'll find out what works in the real world and put it into practice through amazing before-and-after resume examples, exercises, samples, and worksheets. Landing an amazing job has never been so painless!" -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIST Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.14Bright, Michael
Summary: Take a trip around the world to discover the busy animals active during the day, and the magical creatures that come out at night in twelve unique habitats in this extensive exploration of the natural world. This book's fun flip-book format gives readers two books in one. Beginning with the daytime, children can explore the biodiversity of a huge range of landscapes. Readers can then flip the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Words & Pictures, an imprint of Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577 BRIBright, Michael.
Summary: A virtual circumnavigation of the globe offers tourists, nature lovers, and armchair travelers profiles of the world's most beautiful natural sites from every continent, from Angel Falls in Venezuela to the Rhine Valley in Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An examination of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her children", and the political philosophies the play represents. Preparing for The Public Theater's 2006 production of Brecht's anti-war play, Meryl Streep allows a camera crew to document her rehearsal process and interest in the work. Moreover, the life and times of Brecht himself are followed, most notably the playwrites' escape from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1972