Mastromonaco, Alyssa
Summary: Presents a collection of personal reflections, essays, and interviews on topics of relevance to today's young women, from politics and careers to social media and relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASTROMONACO, ALYSSA MASCalkhoven, Laurie
Summary: True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM CalkhovenCalkhoven, Laurie
Summary: Details the life of the writer, composer, actor, and rapper starring in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CALMasterton, Laurey.
Summary: Highlighting a different honey variety each month (orange blossom, tupelo, acacia, avocado, raspberry, tulip poplar, sourwood, blueberry, sage, eucalyptus, cranberry, and chestnut), beekeeper and chef Laurey Masterton offers dishes made from simple, fresh ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.68 MASTheule, Larissa
Summary: "From a lowly mixture of stone, sand, water, and cement have sprung sidewalks, streets, and skyscrapers, . . . lighthouses and . . . palaces, long bridges and massive dams. In ancient building practices, in modern engineering, and in the architecture of the future, humble concrete plays a mighty role in the creation of the human-made world. With facts and . . . running narrative in the form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J620.1 THEZimberoff, Larissa
Summary: "Ultra-processed and secretly produced foods are cheered by consumers and investors because they are plant-based--often vegan--and help address societal issues. An investigative reporter pokes holes in the mania behind today's changing food landscape and clearly shows the trade-offs of replacing real food with technology-driven approximations."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 ZIMAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLMacFarquhar, Larissa
Summary: "What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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Summary: Emotional development experts Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed. and Lauren Stauble M.S. are at the forefront of a movement to foster little ones' emotional intelligence. Their revolutionary Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 577.7 BALLaurent, Monique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.92 LAUPhelps, Carissa.
Summary: In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHELPS, CARISSA PHERinehart, Lorissa
Summary: "From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the second world war. She marched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPELLE, DICKEY RINDubois, Laurent
Summary: Even before the 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, and has often been blamed for its own wretchedness. But as historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, its difficulties are rooted in its founding revolution, the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers; and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 DUBPham, Larissa
Summary: Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay PhamBaumgart, Barret
Summary: "Barret Baumgart's literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California's historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base, NAWS China Lake, near Death Valley, California. His mother, the survivor of a recent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Of Iowa Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 BAUBrown, Laaren
Summary: Go wild with incredible untamed animals! Meet awesome wild animals up close. See stunning photographs of animals in their natural habitats and learn how animals survive and thrive all around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc., Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J590 BRODaudet, Alphonse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1933
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.8 DAUDET, ALPHONSE DAULauner, Dale
Summary: Bill and Stan, two carefree pals, are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Their defense lawyer is Bill's cousin--a street-wise former auto mechanic, who has just passed the bar exam after his sixth try and never been in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie My 1992Laureys, Steven
Summary: Steven explores the effect of meditation on the brain, using hard science to explain the benefits of a practice that was once thought of as purely spiritual. The result is a highly accessible, scientifically questioning guide to meditation, designed to open the practice to a broader audience. A mix of fascinating science, inspiring anecdote and practical exercises, this accessible book offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Tree 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.12 LAUStorm, Marysa
Summary: "Discover the Kansas City Chiefs' powerhouse players and biggest moments through exciting text and dynamic infographics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.3 FAVLauria, Jo.
Summary: This book is a companion to the Craft in America PBS television series and to the traveling museum exhibition of the same name. This book will show that craft has never been just about pretty things. It has always been about our things, our inheritance, our personal collections. It is about functionality, about identity, about conceptual thinking, about fun and experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 LauriaBarret, Christine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HP Books 1991