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Summary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by best-selling author Alexander Chee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Bauer, Erwin A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Winchester Press 1975

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Johnson, Eric A. (Eric Arthur)

Summary: What We Knew offers the most startling oral history ever done of life in the Third Reich. Combining the expertise of a German sociologist and an American historian, it draws on both gripping oral histories and a unique survey of 4,000 people-both German Jews and non-Jewish Germans, who lived under the Third Reich. It directly addresses some of the most fundamental questions we have about the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 JOH

Johnson, Eric A.

Summary: "Central argument is this: the Nazis did not rule by terror and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus at the dark heart of Nazi Germany, set in motion by the Nazi Party leadership in Berlin, employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusively on Jews and other specifically targeted enemies of the Nazi regime. It depended for its...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 JOH

Kimmel, Eric A.

Summary: Traces the life of the last emperor to rule the Aztec empire in Central America before it was conquered by the Spaniards.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MON

Bae, Kenneth

Summary: Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China to lead guided tours into the secretive nation. Six years later, after eighteen successful excursions in and out of the country, Ken is suddenly stopped at the border: he inadvertently brought his hard drive, that reveals the true nature of his visits, to customs. He is arrested, brought to Pyongyang for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Publishing Group 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAE, KENNETH BAE

Posner, Eric A.

Summary: "Cuts through the hyperbole and hysteria that often distorts assessments of our republic, particularly at this time." - Alan Taylor, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History What-and who-is a demagogue? How did America's Founders envision the presidency? What should a constitutional democracy look like-and how can it be fixed when it appears to be broken? Something is definitely wrong with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 POS

Ben-Joseph, Eran

Summary: As the number of passenger cars in the world increases daily, so too does Earth's supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint--but their design and function has not been rethought since the 1950s. Here, urban designer Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for parking's future--aesthetically pleasing, environmentally and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 BEN

Van Wyk, Ben-Erik.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Editions-Marshall Cavendish 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.632 VAN

Munroe, Erin A.

Summary: Explores dangers and problems that girls face today, including cutting, cyberbullying, substance abuse, learning disabilities, and social anxiety, with information on intervention and coping strategies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications, Inc. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.133 MUN

Sala, Enric

Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SAL

Summary: The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaepernick Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 ABO

Palacio, R. J.

Summary: "Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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Young, Eris

Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.762 YOU

Prather, Aric

Summary: "From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022

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Long, Eric F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. in association with Boston Mills Press 2006

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Hoyt, Erich

Summary: "Invites readers to dive into the dazzling nighttime ocean. Countless microscopic plankton -- larval creatures such as ornate ghost pipefish, left-handed hermit crabs and bony-eared assfish -- ascend to the upper waters to feed, returning to the depths before sunrise."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2022

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 578.77 HOY

Fromm, Erich

Summary: "To have or to be? is one of the seminal books of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revelation to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Erich Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 FRO

Hoyt, Erich.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.77 HOY

Tye, Larry

Summary: Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold warrior to a liberal champion of the working class, the poor, and minorities.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, ROBERT F. TYE

Hazan, Éric

Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZ

Boye, Alan

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.9 BOY

Tye, Larry

Summary: "The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever access to his personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently-unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCARTHY, JOE TYE

Summary: Presents stories, songs, recipes, and activities related to the celebration of Hanukkah.

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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 296.435 HAN

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