Lawton, Georgina
Summary: Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perenial 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAWTON, GEORGINA LAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAWTON LAWSummary: "America's battle against childhood obesity is an issue too big for many to fully comprehend. With one in three children overweight, the epidemic is sweeping our nation at an unforgiving rate. But in spite of these odds, Bite size showcases the stories of four inspiring kids from diverse backgrounds who are fighting for their health one day at a time. Proving that it's not just about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BITKleege, Georgina
Summary: A first-hand exploration of blindness, looking at how the blind have been presented in film and literature, attempting to capture in words the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight, and including information from the author about the ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped hiding her blindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.41 KLEGeorgia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1Georgia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3758 SOMHowell, Georgina
Summary: She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, GERTRUDE HOWReid, Georgina
Summary: From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.022 REILawhon, Ariel
Summary: "Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, February 17, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "With party themes like 'Unicorns Trending,' 'Boho Beach,' 'Modern Pumpkin' and 'Party Bling,' the suggestions in this guide are guaranteed to take your parties to the next level. Each chapter offers a party blueprint with tips from event designer Kevin Miller, a full menu and recipes. Use the plan in its entirety or take what inspires you"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publishing Company 2022
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Summary: In The Teapot Dome Scandal, acclaimed author Laton McCartney tells the amazing, complex, and at times ribald story of how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his so-called "oil cabinet" made it possible for the oilmen to secure vast oil reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.914 MCCAndrews, Georgina.
Summary: A collection of one hundred science experiments designed to provide hands-on experience with scientific investigation, as well as the science behind the experiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC 2006
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Summary: In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLedlie, Georgina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kangaroo Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 LEDPazcoguin, Georgina
Summary: "Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet-the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the orchestra circle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAZCOGUIN, GEORGINA PAZLaxton, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5081 LAXKong, Georgiana
Summary: The cookbook shows you how to make regional and healthy stir-fry dishes, steamed dishes, braised dishes, cold dishes, fried rice, congee, dumplings, noodles, mantou, and baozi .....If you are looking for Chinese vegetarian recipes, it would also surprise you!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independently published 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5951 KONHawton, Michael
Summary: Childhood anxiety is much more prevalent these days, and parents and carers need to be able to help their kids to prevent dangerous escalation. With 18 years of expert, qualified experience, the author shows how to help children and tweens build up the necessary brain architecture and perspective, and create the emotional reserves and balance needed throughout life. Parent-led strategies for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Exisle Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 HAWGiorgini, Frank
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.6 GIOLawton, Rebecca
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 550 LAWMcCartney, Laton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 978 MCCHemans, Lawton T. (Lawton Thomas)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1906
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 HEMHemans, Lawton T. (Lawton Thomas)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hammond Pub. Co. 1907
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 HEMRossetti, Christina Georgina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 ROSLupi, Giorgia
Summary: "In their year-long visual correspondence project, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian woman living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American woman living in London, capture the inherent poetry of that subjective selectivity. Each week, they jointly selected one aspect of daily life - from sleep to spending habits to mirror use - and depicted their respective experience of it in a hand-drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016