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Basket making Crime scenes United States History 20th century Criminal investigation United States History 20th century Fantasy Forensic sciences United States History 20th century Forensic scientists United States Biography Sisters Juvenile fiction Stories without words Ward, Lynd 1905-1985 Wood-engraving, AmericanSummary: Explores the period between the 16th and 19th centuries in Japan by examining the lives of shoguns, samurais, geishas, and the very few westerners allowed into Japan . Japan was then a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, and ruled by shoguns with absolute control. During this period, Japan transitioned from chaos and violence to a land of ritual refinement and peace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAPGoldfarb, Ben
Summary: Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.27 GOLSummary: Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BESGoldfarb, Bruce
Summary: "Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended death in the state is scrutinized. Touching on numerous scandals, including Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing in police custody of Freddie Gray, Goldfarb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDFARB, BRUCE GOLGoldfarb, Bruce
Summary: "Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes andmade it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 GOLGoldfarb, Bruce
Summary: Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 363.25 GOLWard, Lynd
Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARGoldmark, Sandra
Summary: A leader of the sustainability movement outlines a course of action to reduce our reliance on cheap disposable goods and instead choose quality items designed to last longer and committing to have them repaired when they break.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 GOLCote, Lyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COTHamilton, Lyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMSlater, Lyn
Summary: "A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Contains a selection of transcripts taken from the sound archives of Britain's Imperial War Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Interviews of Holocaust survivors, refugees, families of the murdered and of survivors, aid workers and troops who liberated the camps are included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SMIGardner, Lyn.
Summary: Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters--Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, the elder Aurora, and the baby Any--flee into the woods and begin a treacherous journey filled with many dangers as they try to find a way to defeat their pursuer and keep him from taking the pipe and control of the entire land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GARHamilton, Lyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMCote, Lyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTWard, Lynd
Summary: From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARSummary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ShBermudez, Cyn
Summary: Christmas is coming. Victor and Isaac want to spend the holidays together. But they're stuck in their new foster homes and their mom is stuck in jail. Victor and Isaac struggle to adjust to the unfamiliar customs of their foster families. They worry that their own traditions will be lost. Does accepting their present lives mean they've rejected their past?
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MERSchleining, Lon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Linden 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.08 SCHGardner, Lyn.
Summary: The Eden sisters are lured to the fair by Belladonna, a witch who wants Aurora's heart and Stormy's powerful musical pipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GARLyn Udall
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M.Witmark & Sons 0000
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMacDonald, Lyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.42 MACSiler, Lyn.
Summary: Using full-page photos, fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and helpful tips and suggestions, Lyn Siler carefully guides you through the process of making your own heirloom baskets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1988