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Animals Infancy Chinese language Writing COVID-19 (Disease) Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia Alexandra Correspondence Folklore Turkey Poetry, Modern Romanov (House of) Correspondence Russia History Nicholas II, 1894-1917 Sources Spies United States Biography Spoken word poetry, AmericanSummary: The first year of life is the toughest. Four cinematographers follow six iconic baby animals as they face the challenges of surviving their first year on Earth. For these animal babies, it is the story of what it takes to survive in the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANIHabsburg, Géza von.
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Hermitage Museum 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.2 HABSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMAline
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIAranya.
Summary: In this unique book, Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. Linking theory to practice, he places the ethics, principles, philosophies, tools and techniques directly into the context of the process itself. While written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 ARASummary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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Summary: Sequel to: The Spy Wore Red. The memoirs of Aline, Countess of Romanones who is called out of semiretirement by the CIA to uncover a highly placed NATO mole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 ALIChocano, Carina
Summary: "Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed-up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 CHOWhite, Arisa
Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MASArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARADiffley, Atina.
Summary: "A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the "ground level" of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys' Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 DIFHahnemann, Trina
Summary: "The Scandinavians excel at comfort--family, friends, a good atmosphere, long meals, relaxation, and an emphasis on the simple pleasures. They even have a word for this kind of coziness that comes with spending quality time in hearth and home when the days are short: "hygge". Trine Hahnemann is the doyenne of Scandinavian cooking, and loves nothing more than spending time in her kitchen cooking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quadrille 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5948 HAHArana, Marie
Summary: "A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 ARARatushinskaya, Irina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 RATRobbins, Trina
Summary: The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed their curls, and become flappers. Women got the vote in 1920, and suddenly they were equal to the boys-- at least in the voting booth. They smoked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphic Books 2020
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Summary: A revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever before, and with some startling new discoveries (such as a Native American woman cartoonist from the 1940s who was also a Corporal in the women's army, and the revelation that a cartoonist included in all of Robbins's previous histories was a man!). In the pages of Pretty in Ink you'll find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBAria, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 ARISams, Carl R. II
Summary: A magical snowfall brings many surprises and joys shared between a grandma and her grandchildren. The love of bird watching is being passed from one generation to another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carl R. Sams II Photography, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sams 2011Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SAMChan, Alina
Summary: "In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 CHAWrobleski, Adina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Wrobleski 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 WROExelby, Narina
Summary: Lonely Planet Botswana & Namibia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Spot jackals and black rhinos in Etosha National Park, explore the German colonial town of Luederitz; or marvel at mighty Victoria Falls; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Botswana & Namibia and begin your journey now!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9442 HOFAria, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 ARISingh, Rina
Summary: A collection of Turkish folktales featuring Nasrudin Hoja and lessons taken from his experiences with his family, at the market, and with animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2011