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Summary: Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 DANVan der Linden, Sander
Summary: "From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being--yet most attempts to combat it have proven insufficient. In Foolproof, one of the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 VANLandon, Fred
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1944
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Hart, Lyndon H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia State Library and Archives 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 Hart,1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3755 V
Snider, Brandon T.
Summary: "Since the 1980s, the Transformers toy line has been defining the lives of children with its mighty heroes. But the Robots in Disguise have morphed into much more than just a toy line! This biography for young readers tells the incredible story of the tiny toys that became blockbuster movie stars, comic book heroes, and more. Ride along with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron as you learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 688.7 SNICook, Langdon
Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food : salmon. For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild--thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV, perhaps. For others, it's the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep red fillet at the market. For others still, it's the jolt of adrenaline on a successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 COOComstock, Lyndon.
Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMBlake, Wendon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.45 BLALindop, Edmund.
Summary: Provides accounts of key events that occurred during the 1950s in the areas of science, technology, transportation, the economy, society, literature, art and architecture, fashion, stage and screen, music, sports and recreation, and war, and includes photographs and primary sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.921 LINJones, Landon Y.
Contents: A dark and bloody ground -- 1. America's first west: 1722-1772 -- 2. General George Rogers Clark: 1772-1789 -- 3. Lieutenant Billy Clark: 1789-1795 -- 4. Soldier and citizen: 1795-1803 -- 5. "Ocian in view! O! the joy!":1803-1806 -- 6. This wild country: 1806-1809 -- 7. Life without Lewis: 1809-1813 -- 8. Territorial governor: 1813-1820 -- 9. "The red-headed chief": 1820-1829 -- 10. Resistance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 CLAMeadow, Tey
Summary: "In the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child, ethnographer Tey Meadow introduces readers to a generation of parents who actively facilitate gender nonconformity in their children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at cure, but today such families call their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 MEAPlaydon, Zoë
Summary: This life story of an aristocratic trans man whose secret 1968 legal case, which forced him to defend his male status, had a profound impact on trans rights for decades is a singular contribution to trans history and the ongoing struggle for trans rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORBES, EWAN SIR PLATec, Nechama.
Summary: Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia, led by Tuvia Bielski, that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.83 TECBlake, Wendon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.422 BlaLindop, Edmund.
Summary: Presents the social, political, economic, and technological changes in the United States during the nineteen sixties, including the civil rights movement, the popularization of rock music, and the expedition to the Moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.923 LINMannon, Melissa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Archivesinfo.com] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.3 MANTec, Nechama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford 1985
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Summary: "An illustrated history, exploration, and celebration of the Italian liqueur everyone loves. This gorgeous guide teaches you everything you need to know about amaro, the delightfully complex and bittersweet Italian liqueur. Traditionally a digestif, it'salso a popular ingredient in modern cocktails. The first part of the book is dedicated to the drink's creation and extraction processes, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 663 ZEDBlanton, DeAnne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BLALainson, Suzanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1985
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Contents: Introduction : some splainin' about Lucy TV. Television in the home and the home on television : Fifties TV and Lucy TV -- Origins of I love Lucy : authorship and production contexts -- Narrative and comedic conventions and innovations of the situation comedy : the basics of Lucy TV -- Trickster Lucy : popularity, comedy, gender, and culture -- A spotlight on 1953 : Lucy TV in its cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 LANLandra, Maie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth & Spring Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.432 LANLangone, John
Contents: The heavens -- The human body -- Matter and energy -- Life itself -- Earth and moon -- Mind and behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006
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Contents: Medical marijuana everywhere -- Hippies start growing marijuana -- Growing takes off -- Breeders change everything -- Cannabis moves indoors -- The politics of marijuana -- Medical dispensaries reshape the business -- Cannabis as medicine -- The cannabis gold rush is on -- A day in the dispensary -- The future of cannabis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012