Kho, Kian Lam.
Summary: Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees offers a unique introduction to Chinese home cooking, demystifying it by focusing on its basic cooking methods. In outlining the differences among various techniques—such as pan-frying, oil steeping, and yin-yang frying—and instructing which one is best for particular ingredients and end results, culinary expert Kian Lam Kho provides a practical, intuitive window...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.561 KHOLife
Summary: Describes the life and career of the Academy Award-winning actor best known for his dark glasses, wicked grin, and rascal persona, from his early days in B movies through his rise to success, critical acclaim, and mega-stardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Home Entertainment I 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLSON, JACK JACQu, Lei Lei
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4251 QULai, Lee
Summary: "Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2021
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LAILehn, Barbara.
Summary: Simple text and photographs depict children engaged in various activities that make up the scientific process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 502.3 LEHSummary: When Icelandic actor, stand-up comic and radio shock-jock Jón Gnarr decides to found the mock-serious Best Party and run for mayor of Reykjavik in order to ridicule the status quo who were in charge when his country went into economic free-fall, little did he know how the voting republic would react to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus World 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GNALad, Vasant
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Alt LadLax, Eric.
Summary: For more than three decades, Woody Allen has been talking regularly and candidly with Eric Lax, and has given him singular and unfettered access to his film sets, his editing room, and his thoughts and observations. In discussions that begin in 1971 and continue into 2007, Allen discusses every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own films and the work of directors he admires. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43092 LAXAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYHothem, Lar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.73 HOTLAO-TZU
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1976
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 LEMLahr, Marilyn
Summary: No one told us how to grow old - what was coming or how to navigate it well. Just as we are entering the Autumn of our lives our loved ones are entering Winter. Are we prepared to help them navigate their aging process? In Fall we find ourselves finally free from much of the obligations of Summer. Children are grown, and we are better established in life but it is also the season when we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xulon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 LAHLaw, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Donald I. Fine 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 LAWLei, Sida
Summary: I was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came and robbed me. First, they took my home, driving us out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took my family members. They tried to take me too. They tried to starve me, to wear me down with disease, to catch me stealing so that they could execute me. They tried to work me to death. But every time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sida Lei 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEI, SIDA LEILik, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press (Peter Lik Publishing) 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1979
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Summary: "A mother-daughter memoir exploring loss, love, and healing, told in two alternating voices, from the critically acclaimed novelist and her teenage daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CAOJha, Sonora
Summary: "This book is both an incredibly moving mother-son love story told in personal essays, and a parenting manual with concrete advice and actionable takeaways for feminists of all stripes hoping to dismantle toxic masculinity, one sweet boy at a time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 JHAHermann, Chef.
Summary: Recipes from Chef Hermann of Herman's European Cafe, Hotel and Deli in Cadillac, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cadillac Printing Company 1991
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Summary: Describes, illustrates, and lists the current market value of arrowheads, axes, knives, tools, pottery, and other Indian artifacts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 HOTIlʹf, Ilʹi͡a︡
Contents: The Road -- The Small Town -- Americans -- At the Birthplace of Mark Twain -- The Desert -- Indians -- California -- Hollywood -- Advertising -- Negroes -- New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cabinet Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ILFLohr, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005 LOHSchleining, Lon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Linden 2002