Seward, Pat
Summary: "The country of Morocco is a unique part of Africa with beautiful architecture, ancient history, and an exotic flair. This book describes Morocco's rich history, examines how the country has evolved, and explores what its people and customs are like today."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 964 SEWSummary: "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: In this meticulously researched exploration of the science and history of germs, an award-winning comedy writer blends a ton of solid information with humor, cool fun facts and disgusting details to make learning fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.3 KAYKay, Edward
Summary: This book about the science of smells takes a funky subject and makes it fascinating --- and hilarious! It starts with the basics, from the reason why things stink to how our sense of smell works (hint: it has to do with the six million scent receptors way up inside our noses). Then come some specifics such as how and why smells are closely linked to memories, descriptions of some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 KAYSummary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUFSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "In the Wonder House, each room is filled with poems and objects to inspire... The rooms in this house are a road map for finding wonder--twelve rooms in all, housing twenty-nine poems and wondrous images."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 DOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DOTContents: The Moroccan hinge / Pierre Schneider -- Matisse's Moroccan sketchbooks and drawings : self-discovery through various motifs / Jack Cowart -- Matisse in Morocco : an interpretive guide / John Elderfield -- The Russian collectors and Henri Matisse / Albert Kostenevich -- Chronology / Laura Coyle -- Appendix 1 : Letters relating to the Morosov and Shchukin Commissions / Beatrice Kernan, Laura...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.91 COWTroke, Adam.
Summary: With 452 full-color pages, this hardback Rulebook is packed with rich background and contains all the rules for fighting pulse-pounding tabletop battles. The Rulebook includes exciting features such as dynamic close-combat, flyers, psychic devastation and interactive scenery. It also features a comprehensive hobby section to set you on the path to choosing, collecting and building your own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Games Workshop 2012
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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.
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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 WARMiddleton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Manchester University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 JONSummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACArmas, Kat
Summary: "Combining personal storytelling with biblical reflection, a Cuban American writer tells the story of unnamed and overlooked theologians-mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters-whose survival, resistance, and persistence teach us the true power of faith and love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 ARMChow, Kat
Summary: After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHOW, KAT CHOHolmes, Kat
Summary: "Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.4 HOLTimpf, Kat
Summary: In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong. We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should feel like we're all in this together. When someone says "you can't joke about that," what they really mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TIMBogard, Paul
Summary: Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.566 BOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ BogardHazard, Rowland
Summary: "Back pain afflicts more than 3 in 4 adults and costs Americans over $100 billion every year. While most people recover quickly, the disabilities suffered by people who don't generate the vast majority of the costs and heartache. Talking Back offers people disabled by chronic back pain personal strategies for recovering active lives and wellness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.5 HAZKato, Kazue
Summary: Exorcist Rin Okumura continues to try to control his demonic powers as distrust swirls around the heads of the various Myodha temple families, and he receives a letter that reveals information about his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLUUsitalo, Kath
Summary: To the Anishinaabe-Ojibwa people it was a gathering place, a sacred burial ground, and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Throughout the 1600s French voyageurs, explorers, missionaries, and fur traders arrived at Mackinac Island. Its strategic location in the straits between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas made it a military outpost the British and Americans found worth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press, LLC 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 MICHIGAN MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.3 USIWood, Tat.
Summary: Written by Lawrence Miles (Faction Paradox) and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, About Time focuses on the continuity of Doctor Who (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Norwegian Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 DOCWard, 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 WARAlward, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nat'L Ctr For Appropriate 1981