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Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.73 JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.73 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220 JACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220 JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 220 JacJacobs, A. J.
Summary: A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including "My Outsourced Life" and "The Truth About Nakedness."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Brittanica from A-Z.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 031 JACJacobs, A. J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.1 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 929.1 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the "Encyclopedia Britannica" from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc JacobsJ Crane A Jacobs J>Brewster
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Miller 1953