Fleming, Brandon P.
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation through literature and debate from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator -- all by the age of 27"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLEMING, BRANDON P. FLELasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Ever since Williamina Fleming was little she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her life's work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from even looking through telescopes. Yet Mina believed that the universe, with its billions of stars, was a riddle--and she wanted to help solve it. Mina ultimately helped to create a map of the universe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FLEWilson, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 BRONSON WILFleming, Meg
Summary: This adorable read-aloud story introduces baby animals who share what they are called and what they grow up into, and shows how some baby animals share their names with several other species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLEHayes, Rhonda Fleming
Summary: Stow your pesticides and learn how to foster a beautiful, healthy garden that attracts bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators. Hays explains the synergy between plants and pollinators. She helps you make the right choices for plant selection, nutrients, growing practices and so much more. You will improve your garden-- and the lives of whose who spend time in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638 HAYFleming, John (John M.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bristol Fashion Publications 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Tran Main FlemingSummary: The "geologic staircase" of the Southwest includes the Bryce Canyon, Zion, Glen Canyon, Monument Valley and Grand Canyon National Parks. A rugged, arid region, encompassing parts of Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau is home to these geographically close, but utterly unique, landmarks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.92 GRABranson, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Business 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRANSON, RICHARD BRASummary: Edgar Allan Poe: buried alive draws on the rich palette of Poe's evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author. Featuring Tony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare, the film explores the misrepresentations of Poe as an alcoholic madman. It reveals the way in which Poe tapped into what it means to be a human in the modern and sometimes frightening world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EDGBrandow, Michael
Summary: A provocative look at the “cult of pedigree” and an entertaining social history of purebred dogs So-called “purebreds” are the mainstay of the dog industry, and expert Michael Brandow argues that these aren’t markers of time-honored traditions but rather commercial inventions of the nineteenth century that were marketed as status symbols to a growing middle class. Combining social history and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BRABranson, Richard
Summary: In the two decades since Richard Branson wrote Losing My Virginity, his life and company have changed significantly. Now he brings his life story up to date, including all the successes and failures of ventures such as Virgin Galactic. He also shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world's ultimate entrepreneur, and his shift to focusing more and more on public service....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRANSON, RICHARD BRABurchard, Brendon.
Summary: In the hyper-connected, hyper-digitized world in which we are living, the time has come to revise Abraham Maslow's classic "hierarchy of needs"--a pyramid of human drives that places the basic needs of safety and sustenance at the bottom. Burchard, a world-renowned motivational speaker and bestselling author, makes a compelling case that it's time for an entirely new approach to understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 BURBranson, Jack.
Summary: Documents the painstaking efforts of some of the nation's most prolific cold case detectives, highlighting their most interesting--and baffling--cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 BRABranson, Richard.
Summary: " While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola and lost. Now Branson gives an inside look at his strikingly different swashbuckling style of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 BRASummary: Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the story of New York's evolution through revolution, a story of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 REVWilson, Robert E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The authors 1995
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 WilsoBranden, Nathaniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 BRABrendon, Piers.
Summary: After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0971 BREBurchard, Brendon
Summary: "THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1.Why do some individuals and teams succeedmore quicklythan others andsustainthat success over the long term? 2.Of those who pull it off, why are somemiserableand others consistentlyhappy on their journey? 3.What motivates people to reach for higher levels of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BURMarotta, Brendon
Summary: Examines both sides of the circumcision debate in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMEGraedon, Joe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.1 GRALeaming, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENGraedon, Joe.
Summary: Medical mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors--and new research suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 GRALeaming, Barbara.
Summary: Recreates Rita's life from medical records, government documents, trial transcripts, movie-lot memoranda, and the testimony of many eyewitnesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989