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Citizenship Discrimination against people with disabilities Law and legislation Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Personal narratives Jewish women in the Holocaust Online social networks Online social networks in business Social change Social media United States West (U.S.) Social life and customs Pictorial worksMatalon Lagnado, Lucette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5405 LAGLagnado, Lucette.
Summary: Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LAGLuchette, Claire
Summary: "Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUCCarville, James.
Summary: "For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair : Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin take a look at how they--and America--have changed in the last two decades. If nothing else, this new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARVILLE, JAMES & MATALIN, MARY CARMartin, Linette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MartinLuckett, Oliver
Summary: "From visionary tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett and MIT Media Lab's Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media how it works, how it's changing human life, and how we can master it for good and for profit. In barely a decade, social media has positioned itself at the center of twenty-first century life. The combined power of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 LUCMattson, Kristen
Summary: "For years, much of the available curricula for teaching digital citizenship focused on "don'ts." Don't share addresses or phone numbers. Don't give out passwords. Don't bully other students. But the conversation then shifted and had many asking, "Why aren't we teaching kids the power of social media?" Next, digital citizenship curriculum moved toward teaching students how to positively brand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Society for Technology in Education 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 MATMattson, Ted.
Summary: Calling themselves the Iditarod Air Force, volunteer pilots fly through some of the nation's worst weather to transport food, supplies, people, and dogs along the 1,100 mile trail. The author tells twenty-five years' worth of tales about the exploits of these pilots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Epicenter Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.8 MATLaVette, Bettye
Contents: I do not want what I haven't got -- Joy -- Down to zero -- High road -- On the surface -- Just say so -- Little sparrow -- How am I different -- Only time will tell me -- Sleep to dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anti, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LaVetMattlin, Ben
Summary: "An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.3 MATLaVette, Bettye
Contents: I still want to be your baby (Take me like I am) -- Choices -- Jealousy -- You don't know me at all -- Somebody pick up my pieces -- They call it love -- The last time -- Talking old soldiers -- Before the money came (The battle of Bettye LaVette) -- I guess we shouldn't talk about that now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anti 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LAVLaVette, Bettye
Contents: Everything is broken -- I'm not the one -- Dirty old town -- The more I search (the more I die) -- I'm tired -- Crazy -- Yesterday is here -- Thankful n' thoughtful -- Fair enough -- Time will do the talking -- Everybody knows this is nowhere -- Dirty old town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anti 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LAVEmerson, Avalon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC EMELycett, Andrew.
Summary: In this authoritative, fresh, and compelling account of the extraordinary life and enduring work of Dylan Thomas, author of 'Under Milk Wood, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Adventures in the Skin Trade, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog', and numerous poems and stories, Andrew Lycett peels back the layers of story that have accumulated around this extraordinarily talented writer, one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, DYLAN LYCMallon, Thomas
Summary: A retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALMaslon, Laurence.
Summary: Presents a history of the Broadway musical theater, including summaries of the shows, photographs of the stars, posters, sheet music, production stills, and essays by theater luminaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.14 KANBatalion, Judith.
Summary: "One of the most important untold stories of World War II. The light of days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BATDoucette, Gene
Summary: The whateverpocalypse. That's what Toure, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn't alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn't explain where everyone went. It doesn't explain how the city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUKarikó, Katalin
Summary: "A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARIKO, KATALIN KARLuchetti, Cathy
Summary: Biographies of women who pioneered the American West that includes their personal letters and over 150 historic photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Books 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.4 LUCLuckett, Richard
Summary: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.23 LuckeLycett, Andrew.
Summary: Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007, as Lycett shows in this full-length biography of Ian Fleming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLEMING, IAN FLEMallon, Thomas
Summary: Reimagines the turbulent second term and political relationships of a mercurial President George W. Bush from the perspectives of two West Texans with disparate ideological views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALMaslon, Laurence.
Summary: Together again for the first time, here comes the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two covers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2013