Summary: Six beloved stories about adventure and science.. Stories include I'm Dirty, find out just how dirty a backhoe can get while doing its' job. Other stories include Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man, The Paper Boy, Stars! Stars! Stars!, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, and Johnny Appleseed. Also included are author interviews from Kate & Jim McMullan and celebrity narration from Steve Buscemi and Forest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Two families go on vacation to the Magic Kingdom in Disney World, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JAKJacobsen, Rowan
Summary: Truffles attract dreamers, schemers, and sensualists. People spend years training dogs to find them underground. They plant forests of oaks and wait a decade for truffles to appear. They pay $3,000 a pound to possess them. They turn into quivering puddles in their presence. Jacobsen takes us into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.8 JACJacobsen, Rowan.
Summary: Traces the significant 2007 and 2008 reductions in honeybee populations, identifying the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder to explain the link between bee pollination and industrial agriculture and predict dangerous reductions in food output.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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Summary: The Essential Oyster is the definitive book for oyster-lovers everywhere, featuring stunning portraits, tasting notes, and backstories of all the top oysters, as well as recipes from America's top oyster chefs and a guide to the best oyster bars. Spotlighting more than a hundred of North America's greatest oysters--the unique, the historically significant, the flat-out yummiest--The Essential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK JAKStephani, Julie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.593 STEJacobsen, Annie.
Summary: Presents a history of the most famous secret military installation in the world, assembled from interviews with the people who served there and formerly classified information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.417 JACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.417 JACJacobsen, Annie.
Summary: Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 JACJacobsen, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 JACJacobsen, Rowan.
Contents: Summer apples -- Dessert apples -- Bakers and saucers -- Keepers -- Cider fruit -- Oddballs -- Recipes -- Glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 634.11 JACBourgeois, Stéphanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.59 BourgeoisJacobsen, Annie
Summary: For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army--and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: An early champion of modernism, Jacobsen published a body of work that earned him international recognition and established him as one of Europe's great poets. This bilingual collection spans Jacobsen's fifty-year career and includes, for the first time in English, his final poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.82 JACJacobsen, Annie
Summary: Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: Surprise... your target. Kill... your enemy. Vanish... without a trace. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "A captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations, and palates worldwide. The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, muddy dogs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUDHillard, Stephane
Summary: "Many kids babysit their siblings, neighbors' children, or family friends' children. However, some people take babysitting to another level and turn it into a massively profitable job. In this book, readers will learn the vital elements of running their own business, including scheduling, safety, and marketing. They'll also learn how these basics can give them the tools they need to expand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Job HillardGrappelli, Stephane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MAYHillard, Stephane
Summary: "Planning a car wash is a great way to make money and help people keep their car looking nice and shiny. While a car wash may seem like a simple business venture, it's more complex than readers may realize. In this volume, readers will learn the importance of scheduling, budgeting, gathering enough workers, and charging a fair yet competitive price. Readers will also learn to think about all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "One person's trash is another person's treasure. Sometimes people want to get rid of things from their home but don't want those things to be thrown away or wasted. However, they also don't want the work of planning and executing a yard sale. In this volume, readers will learn how to plan a yard sale, not only for their own unwanted possessions but for their neighbors' and friends'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020