Higginbotham, Adam
Summary: Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.17 HIGHigginbotham, Anastasia
Summary: Explains that although many adults do not care to admit it, color does still matter in the United States; discusses racism and the fight against it; and argues that bias is a problem for whites, but that white people do not have to accept it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dottir Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8009 HIGNuchi, Adah
Summary: This girl-powered book about puberty is written in the voice of counselors in training at the fictional Camp Silver Moon. This fictionalized nonfiction diary-style guide follows nine 12-year-old girls at a summer camp is like having a best friend or older sister who shares everything there is to know about being comfortable in your chasing body so you can survive and thrive through puberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 612.6 NUCAnam, Tahmima
Summary: "Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Cyrus inspires Asha to write a new algorithm. Before she knows it, she's abandoned her PhD program, they've exchanged vows, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia. The platform creates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: LP FIC ANAAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALAAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLAwan, Jashar
Summary: "A pair of Christmas tree ornaments set out on the merry adventure of a lifetime in this imaginative picture book about the inner lives of holiday decorations. All is quiet in the forest as the Great Star rises in the distance, and two little musicians, Strum and Drum, wake up from a deep slumber and set out to make the most joyous music they can! But as Strum strums his guitar and Drum drums...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AWAAbram, Carolyn.
Summary: Ready to get active on Facebook but no clue where to start? This bestselling guide gets you started! So you've finally decided to join the "social network." Maybe you've got a Facebook account, but want help navigating the site. This handy guide tells you how to get started, set up your Profile, find friends, protect your privacy, and much more.Discover how Facebook helps you make new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012
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Awan, Jashar
Summary: A young child sets out to build the best snowman ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AWARadulović, Nemanja
Contents: Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 In G Minor, WoO 1 (3:12) -- Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me (3:18) -- Tchaikovsky: Danse russe (4:21) -- Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (2:56) -- Kalaj: Vatra suze (3:17) -- Paona kolo (2:43) -- Khachaturian: Nocturne (3:39) -- Shostakovich: Romance (4:17) -- Prokofiev: March (1:35) -- Williams: Schindler's List Theme (3:50) -- Nika Banja (2:21) -- Simjanovic:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DG 2016
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Akhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AKHSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STACarolla, Adam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Gidwitz, Adam.
Summary: "Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIDHaslett, Adam
Summary: When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASRex, Adam
Summary: Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs inpeace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REXRubin, Adam
Summary: Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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Summary: "Reader, be advised that the events in this book may tickle your funny bone: A boy and his robot nanny travel the globe in search of the world's tastiest treat. A girl and her sister compete in an ice cream eating contest--against an honest-to-goodness pig. A child prodigy invents a new way to create the freshest dessert ever. And we should probably mention the evil ice cream seller terrorizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUBWoog, Adam
Summary: Discusses children's book author Roald Dahl including his childhood, his time spent in the military, his marriages and children, his books and screenplays, and the film and stage versions of his books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DAHL WOOFerrer, Ada
Summary: "In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raúl Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.91 FERHaddam, Jane
Summary: In her 91 years, Ann-Victoria Hadley has often been the most hated person in Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. But now, it $1 (Bs worse than ever. After a new school board inserted $1! @ (Bintelligent design $1 (B into the curriculum, they were sued by a coalition including Hadley, the one member of the board who wouldn $1 (Bt go along with the rest. With the trial about to start and the town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC HadZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDGidwitz, Adam.
Summary: Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIDJohnson, Adam.
Summary: "Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "RIch with a sense of discovery...The year is young, but The Orphan Master's Son has an early lead on novel of 2012." - The Daily Beast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012