Elkin, Lauren
Summary: The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ELKDakin, Karla.
Contents: Sources of inspiration -- Shapes and patterns -- Creating living spaces -- Wildlife friendly spaces -- Plant-driven environments -- The predesign phase -- Site analysis -- Program -- Master planning and conceptual design -- Design development and construction documents -- Contracts, construction, and maintenance -- The evolving frontier of landscape design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9671 DAKWebster, Rachel J.
Summary: "A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEBCohen, Benyamin
Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.14 ElkEllin, Abby
Summary: Abby Ellin was shocked to learn that her fiancé was leading a secret life. But as she soon discovered, the world is full of people who aren't what they seem. From Abby Ellin's first date with the Commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within six months he'd proposed, and they'd moved in together. But soon, his exotic stories of international espionage began to unravel. Finally, it all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 ELLBelkin, Lisa
Summary: The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur BelkinNetanyahu, Binyamin
Summary: "From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NETANYAHU NETElgin, Duane.
Contents: Cool lifestyle for a hot planet -- Pioneers of green living -- Living voluntarily -- Living simply -- The world at the tipping point -- Deep simplicity and the human journey -- Living in a green world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.9 ELGElkind, David
Summary: Charts the baby-boom generation's obsession with raising successful children and the adverse results experienced by youngsters asked to do too much too soon, and offers advice on avoiding this syndrome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 ELKElkind, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.418 ELKEakin, Hugh
Summary: "The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO EAKElkins, Caroline
Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKElkins, Elizabeth
Summary: Overturned cars. Destroyed houses. Snapped power lines. The powerful winds of a tornado can cause a devastating amount of damage in a short time. Get an up-close look at how tornadoes form and learn about some of history’s worst twisters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 ELKElgin, Suzette Haden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 ELGElkins, Stanley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ELKSalkin, Allen
Summary: Between 2000 and 2015, when Trump announced his candidacy, he was able to identify an unserved political constituency, hone a persuasive message that appealed to their needs, and deliver it effectively, despite intense media opposition. Salkin and Short provide a nonpartisan oral history which shows that Trump had carefully planned his bid for the presidency since he launched what many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SALElgin, Suzette Haden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 ELGBerkin, Carol.
Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BERGlain, Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 GLAMalkin, Michelle.
Summary: In her shocking new book, Malkin goes where the mainstream media refuse to tread. She digs deep into the records of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 MALMcCoy, Edain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.3 MCCSelgin, Peter.
Contents: Matters of substance -- Matters of structure -- Matters of symbol, myt & metaphor -- Matters of style -- Matters of soul -- Other matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010