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Countdown to space First book Sports trivia Traditions around the world Where is Who was-- ?Kelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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We have 3 in the district. Place a hold to request one.Summary: "Whether you want to explore the High Line, see a Broadway show, or grab a slice of pizza in Brooklyn, the local Fodor's travel experts in New York City are here to help! Fodor's New York City 2024 guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USACohen, Bevin.
Summary: "Just a few generations ago we were a nation of seed savers because it was essential to our survival. Many of us have lost touch with this ancient practice, but the knowledge is still inside each and every one of us just waiting to be unlocked. As the demand for locally grown food increases, the demand for local seed is not far behind. After all, food is only as local as the seed that grows it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small House 2018
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Summary: Test your knowledge about the history of the hardcourt, from the days of peach baskets and set shots to the high-flying dunkers of today. The title features informative sidebars, a trivia quiz, a glossary, and further resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J796.323 ERVCarmon, Irin
Summary: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG CARAxelrod-Contrada, Joan
Summary: Explores several of the traditions surrounding Halloween and All Souls' Day around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.2 CONKerby, Mona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1994
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DOUGLASS KERBYBella, Timothy
Summary: The definitive biography of Charles Barkley exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career, and his enduring legacy in American pop culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARKLEY BELBeam, Cris.
Summary: An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.73 BEABrynjolfsson, Erik.
Summary: A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 BRYLarson, Erik.
Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 LARLarson, Erik.
Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. - goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 LarLarson, Erik
Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP CHURCHILL LARKelley, True.
Summary: "This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ADAMSLarson, Erik
Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LARLarson, Erik
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHURCHILL LAREakin, Hugh
Summary: "The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO EAKTurnbull, Bryn
Summary: As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. As war approaches, Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURGuendelsberger, Erin
Summary: "Follow Inky the octopus as he escapes from the National Aquarium of New Zealand to the ocean! Based on a true story, Inky the Octopus chronicles the adventure that the real-life Inky might have taken on his escape to freedom in the open ocean!"--Publisher's website. Includes factual information about octopuses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GUE (BASKET)Kelley, True
Summary: "Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious site to honor the dead? Or a sacred place of healing? Or perhaps an astrological calendar? These are much harder questions to answer. However, in an engaging and easy-to-read account, True Kelley puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHE BASKETKelley, True
Summary: "It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard to come by....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint pf Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHELarson, Erik
Summary: On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.4 LARLarson, Erik.
Summary: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943.086 LARYannuzzi, Della A.
Summary: Traces the life of the first African-American woman to go into space, from her childhood in Chicago through her astronaut training and first spaceflight to life after working with NASA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998