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Summary: "The 30 step-by-step, plant- and nature-based projects found in ¡Verdura! - Living a Garden Life are designed to lead you to better health and wellness through the practice of gardening"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cool Springs Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 635 CURMorlock, Rachael
Summary: "Many meat products people enjoy are made in factories. These manufactured meats are sometimes even called "mystery meat" because people aren't sure what's in them! Readers solve the mystery behind mystery meat through this fact-filled look at the making of hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and many other popular foods. As they explore the science-focused main text and sidebars, they are also given...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.36 MORHurd, Will
Summary: "From former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd, a bold political playbook for America rooted in the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. It's getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 HURAhmed, Akbar S.
Summary: Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 AHMGreenberg, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 GRESegal, Nancy L.
Summary: Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins--when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 SEGSummary: The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 TRAMoore, Russell
Summary: "Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism. American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 277.308 MOOBillington, James H.
Summary: Interpretive history of Russian thought and culture designed to provide new information and interpretation and not merely to codify an already established consesus. The period under discussion is the last six hundred years, during which time Russia has emerged as a distinctive civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 BILMintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 MINBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROParlett, Jack
Summary: A definitive history of New York's Fire Island examines how it has been a vital space in the history of queer America and a key influence on art, literature, culture, and politics. Poet and scholar Jack Parlett's account of Fire Island chronicles its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century. Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 PARYang, Jisheng
Summary: "The only complete history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, 'The World Turned Upside Down' makes a crucial contribution to understanding the Cultural Revolution and its lasting influence today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 YANGregory, Josh
Summary: Because they are willing to eat anything from carrion to garbage, vultures are often called "nature's cleanup crew." Readers will find out what features allow these amazing birds to eat food that would make most other animals sick. They will also discover how vultures mate and raise their babies, which kinds of vultures live in different parts of the world, and why certain types of vultures are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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Summary: "A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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Summary: "This book provides a cultural, political, and social survey through the most American of pastimes that continues to thrive today. With narrative, accessible criticism, research, and popular cultural touchstones we can all recognize, I'd like to introducereaders to the black presence that holds up daily life as they know it. It is a crucial account of the people, stories, and culture that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 JACRinner, Ben
Summary: "The Self-Sufficient Backyard is a detailed resource for new backyard farmers. No matter where you live, what size your yard is, or how much gardening experience you have, this book will guide you through the steps of creating your own mini-farm. The pages within will show you where and how to start, lead you through the most common challenges, and teach you how to create the perfect homestead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan), exploring the history of the vegan movement and its present-day tensions, grapples with the most fundamental questions of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat?, which results in an eye-opening portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates--and our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
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Summary: "During the Golden age of comic books, from the middle 1930s to the late 1940s, readers could choose from hundreds of titles colorfully displayed on America's newsstands - from Action Comics to Zip Comics." "Selecting from thousands of cover illustrations of the period, comics authority Ron Goulart has assembled more than 400 of the most entertaining and provocative for this book." "You'll see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOUAhuja, Masuma
Summary: "Journalist Masuma Ahuja introduces us to 31 teenage girls from 29 countries. Through diary entries and photographs, they share their own stories of growing up and show what ordinary girlhood is like all over the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 AHULeVine, Robert Alan
Summary: "In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Le VineSmall, Meredith F.
Summary: "This is not a parenting advisor but instead a revealing perspective on how and why we raise children as we do." --Booklist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SMABrookwood, Marilyn
Summary: "The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at theOrphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.231 BRODitum, Sarah
Summary: A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2024