Egan, Dan
Summary: "The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, and they provide food, work, and weekend fun for tens of millions of Americans. Yet they are under threat as never before. In a work of narrative reporting in the vein of Rachel Carson and Elizabeth Kolbert, prize-winning reporter Dan Egan delivers an eye-opening portrait of our nation’s greatest natural resource as it faces ecological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 577.630977 EGAEdan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EdanSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Lepucki, Edan.
Summary: "The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: A sinister, sexy noir about art, motherhood, and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles, from the New York Times bestselling author of California High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she's going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she's ever going to finish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEPRegan, Dian Curtis.
Summary: Despite some misunderstandings and with the help of his trusty nurse, Dr. Sillybear manages to treat an assortment of animal patients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC REGSummary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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Summary: "Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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Summary: A family celebrates Hanukkah by lighting the Menorah, eating chocolate gelt and latkes, and opening gifts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LTLSI 0000
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Summary: Niko builds himself a spaceship to take his dog, Tag, and his robot copilot, Radar, to the Moon, but his plans go awry when his sister stows aboard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2015
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Summary: As Emma waits with excitement for her cousin Abby to arrive for a sleepover, a snowstorm brings so many visitors to her family's inn that she and her mother give up their own rooms, and still Abby has not appeared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REGDoan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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Summary: No one else in Dan's class believes him when he says that he has seen a unicorn, until his story captures their imaginations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SHESummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUDoan, Jenny
Summary: "Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny's corner shop -- with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back -- to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the U.S. and the headquarters of Jenny's world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB DOAN DOADoan, Lisa.
Summary: "Jack's parents have decided to guide safaris in Africa, much to Jack's chagrin and none of their previous schemes have worked"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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Summary: Jack Berenson's parents thought up another get-rich-quick scheme...in Kenya! Now an animal attack is about to send Jack up a tree?alone, with limited supplies. Can Jack outsmart the wild life and survive?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publishing Group 2014
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Summary: The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth's surface, holds half of the world's water, and hides the deepest place on the planet. It is a place where huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures live, and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean in a way never seen before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIGFossey, Dian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.8846 FOSThomas, Dian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dian Thomas Co. 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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