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Shakespeare can be fun!McMaster, Shawn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House Juvenile 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 793.8 MCMSummary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STAMacMaster, Greg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 MAC1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 363.25 MAC
McCarter, Jeremy
Summary: "What does it mean to live for your ideals ... and to risk dying for them? This book tells the story of young American radicals who sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life--politically, socially, culturally--and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war sweep it away. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCKois, Dan
Summary: "What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be a family? Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family--Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters--could each be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 KOIChen, Loris
Summary: This new edition of Painless Chemistry provides students with a lighthearted, step-by-step approach to understanding chemistry concepts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 540 CHEAli, Nujood.
Summary: "I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no." Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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McMaster, H. R.
Summary: "Across multiple administrations since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy has been misconceived, inconsistent, and poorly implemented. As a result, America and the free world have fallen behind rivals in power and influence. Meanwhile threats to security, freedom, and prosperity, such as nuclear proliferation and jihadist terrorism have grown. In BATTLEGROUNDS, H.R. McMaster...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.033 MCMLowis, Kristina.
Summary: Presents fifty paintings by major artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work and a timeline for the artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Stahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaLora, Loris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD LORBuford, Kate.
Summary: The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THORPE, JIM BUFLoi, Maria
Summary: Structured around the twelve Pillar Foods of the Mediterranean diet,The Greek Diet offers easy-to-follow meal plans to jump-start your weight loss and improve your overall health, including one hundred authentic, mouthwatering Greek recipes using whole foods and unprocessed ingredients. The plans can be modified to fit any lifestyle, including gluten-free and dairy-free alternatives. Also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LOIBuford, Bill
Summary: "Bill Buford turns his inimitable attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, but convinced that he can master the art of French cooking - or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered - he begins what becomes afive-year odyssey by shadowing the esteemed French chef, Michel Richard, in Washington, D.C. But when Buford (quickly) realizes that a stage in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5092 BUFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BUFKicklighter, Clois E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Goodheart-Willcox 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 KICLille, Mari-Liis.
Summary: Enter the magical world of Lilleliis. With this book in one hand and your crochet hook in the other, you will be able to create these 15 wonderful amigurumi designs. Lilleliis' handmade toys have a wide array of details you will love: the cutest color combinations, the sweetest expressions and little fabric details, this book offers the opportunity to surprise your family and friends with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meteoor Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACSemenya, Caster
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Palau, Luis
Contents: On the Bible and God -- On the creation -- On religion and the spirit -- On religious beliefs in China -- On Chinese and western cultures and philosophy -- On religion and science -- On religion and social harmony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.21 PALBurdett, Lois
Summary: Describes Shakespeare's life through the eyes of children. Includes children's illustrations, children's writings, and a genealogy of Shakespeare's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Ehlert, Lois.
Summary: Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EHLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EHLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EHLEhlert, Lois.
Summary: A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 EHLLowry, Lois.
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LOWSummary: Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003