Snyder, Scott
Summary: "Batman's city is burning. In the months since Commissioner Jim Gordon fell from grace, criminal empires have risen. Martial law has been declared. Arkham Asylum has been emptied. Bruce Wayne has been bankrupted. And Gotham City has been torn apart. Batman and his allies have fought their way up the food chain and put down a slew of madmen and masterminds. Yet each hard-earned victory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATClose, F. E.
Summary: "Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Popular Science Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.434 LINBarone, Rebecca E. F.
Summary: "A nonfiction manuscript for young readers about a group of Allied spies and codebreakers that cracked the Nazis's infamous cypher, allowing them to read secret military messages and turn the tide of World War II. During WWII, as the Germans waged war, every Nazi plan, every attack, was sent over radio. But to the Allies listening in, the messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: On July 22, 2012, Bradley Wiggins made history as the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. Ten days later, at the London Olympic Games, he won the time trial to become his country’s most decorated Olympian. In an instant, “Wiggo”—now Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins—became a British hero. Two years previously, however, Wiggins had been staring into the abyss. His much-hyped attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VeloPress 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIGGINS, BRADLEY WIGHuggins, Kathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 HUGLuckey, Carl F.
Summary: The long-awaited 8th edition has been thoroughly updated. It includes photos of hundreds of new lures, fresh information on related categories like rods, reels, creels and ephemera, and a new section charting the strength of the hobby based on solid auction results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7912 LUCJorgensen, Larry E.
Summary: More than 6,000 shipwrecks have been recorded on the Great Lakes, but only one offers a true-life adventure like the 1926 rescue of the City of Bangor off the Keweenaw Peninsula in upper Michigan. A fierce November storm tossed the ship with a crew of 23 and 240 new Chrysler automobiles onto a Lake Superior reef. For the first time, Shipwrecked and Rescued: Cars and Crew tells the near-tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.L. Management, LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4995 JORMason, Malcolm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9946 MASNorsgaard, E. Jaediker (Ernestine Jaediker)
Summary: Follows two children as they raise butterflies from eggs, describing each step of the insect's life cycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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Summary: The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 MURRukeyser, Muriel
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 RUKSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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Summary: "You know Kenny Loggins for his megahit soundtrack themes and chart-topping collaborations. Now you can know him through the intimate stories behind his five-decade career as a legendary songwriter and pop icon. In a remarkable career, Kenny Loggins has rocked stages worldwide, released ten platinum albums, and landed hits all over the Billboard charts. His place in music history is marked by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1961
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: OFR 917.74 HUDCoggins, David
Summary: "A tribute and practical guide to the art, philosophy, and rituals of fly fishing, by an expert, lifelong angler. Each chapter focuses on a specific place, fish, and skill. Few individuals have the visual acuity required to catch the nearly invisible bonefish of the Bahamas flats, or the patience to land the elusive Atlantic salmon, "the fish of a thousand casts," in eastern Canada. Pursuing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.124 COGWiggins, Chris
Summary: "From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike 2007
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Summary: Explores the facts about sharks, including what these creatures are, how they feed and how much of a threat they pose to humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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Summary: "The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions that mark one year in his journey through the middle part of life when worldly demands increase even as fishing continues to beckon-and must be pursued.In David Coggins's previous book, The Optimist, he tackles the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024