Summary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILKilpack, Josi S.
Summary: Young author Walter Scott is desperately in love with Mina, but after she rejects his marriage proposal, Walter travels to England, where he meets and courts a young Frenchwoman, Charlotte Carpenter and discovers there is a difference between a man's first love and his best love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2017
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Summary: "In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 LUTCohen, Joshua G.
Summary: The culmination of three decades of work by Michigan Natural Features Inventory ecologists, this essential guidebook to the natural communities of Michigan introduces the diverse terrain of a unique state. Small enough to carry in a backpack, this field guide provides a system for dividing the complex natural landscape of Michigan into easily understood and describable components called natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State Univiversity Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 COHBest-Boss, Angie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addicus Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.11 BOSMcGovern, George S. (George Stanley)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MCGVarious authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitGugliotta, Bobette.
Summary: Constructed in 1923, the American submarine S39 was practically an antique when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. With defective torpedoes, a semi-trained crew, and a primitive ventilation system (hence the nickname), she nevertheless sank two enemy vessels and eluded pursuit to fight again in the Solomons. This is the little-known story of how an unprepared navy fought with what it had until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 GUGTosa, Marco
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Barbie doll and discusses how the dolls are made, the different people and cultures dolls are based on, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7221 TOSMay, George S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windsor Publications 1987
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 MAYBeck, Koa
Summary: "Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in the United States with this powerful new feminist classic and rousing call for change. Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragettes to the rise of corporate feminism with clear-eyed scrutiny and meticulous detail. She also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 BECRoss, Rosa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1996
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Summary: "A radical inside examination of policing in modern America, from a Georgetown University law professor turned reserve police officer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of social injustice and did not think a woman should be forced to stand so that a man could sit down. Yet her simple act of courage set in motion a chain of events that changed forever the landscape of American race relations. Now, forty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 PARBrooks, Rosa
Summary: A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BROMatthews, Dona J. (Dona Joyce)
Summary: An essential guide for parents and educators, offering practical suggestions and strategies for raising smart, well-balanced, happily productive children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MAT1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 MAT
Cost, Jay
Summary: "How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history -- his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist papers and then helped to found the Republican party just a few years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADISON, JAMES COSIssa, Joanna
Summary: "Using simple text and step-by-step instructions alongside clear, labeled photographs, this book shows how to make a cool truck out of cardboard boxes and other household materials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 ISSKurma dasa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust 1995
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Summary: "What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle." -- page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KABBosah, Chukwuemeka
Summary: In this collection of art, artists' statements, and essays by and about 75 Nigerian women artists, Bosah reveals a rich diversity in the media, techniques, iconography, and ideas of established and emerging visual artists. Whether reputable installation sculptors, painters, digital photographers, textile designers, or performing artists in Nigeria and the global Nigerian diaspora, or emerging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ben Bosah Books 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.669 BOSCose, Ellis
Summary: "For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in-residence, servingas an "embedded journalist" with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose's groundbreaking Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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Summary: "Introduces the reader to women's rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021