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Summary: During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests is the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world. --from publisher description
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938.07 ARRMcElwee, Meg.
Summary: Resurrecting the art of applique--a technique in which pieces of fabric are sewn onto clothing, bags, quilts, and other creations--this enlightening resource provides today's generation of "sewists" with a technique that can be combined with embroidery, beadwork, buttons, ribbons, and more to imbue works with a creative and personal style. Ideal for those with some sewing experience looking to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.445 MCEMiller, Adrian
Summary: Award winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 MILTinniswood, Adrian
Summary: "It's long been accepted that the 1950s and 1960s were a period of steady decline for the British stately country home. In Noble Ambitions, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood shows that the postwar history of family seats and great houses is much morenuanced. Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 TINMcEwen, Scott.
Contents: The froggy origins of the Navy SEALs -- The tragedy that birthed SEAL Team 6 -- From pirates to professionals -- Drago's war -- Operation Red Wings -- Fallujah: the perfect op that led to prosecution -- Benghazi Libya: SEALs alone -- When SEALs answer the call -- The rescue that wasn't -- The teams: why the unique culture of the SEALs matters -- Appendix A: Benghazi timeline -- Appendix B:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.984 MINGillespie, Larrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Life Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.175 GILLynskey, Dorian.
Summary: A history of protest music embodied in 33 songs since the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 LYNGurian, Michael.
Summary: Offers a handbook for parents concerned with the development of moral and ethical values in boys from birth to the age of eighteen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 GURGurian, Michael.
Summary: Describes how family relationships, mentors, role models, and support from schools and the community are necessary to raise boys successfully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.132 GURMatejka, Adrian
Summary: A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last On His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century. On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world's first Black heavyweight champion--and most infamous athlete in the world because of his race--was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, JACK MATTinniswood, Adrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.20942 TINGurian, Michael.
Summary: Shows parents and teachers how to help our boys overcome current classroom obstacles and failures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.823 GURGurian, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 GURGurian, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.125 GURGurian, Michael.
Summary: Michael Gurian combines analysis of science with the study of spiritual texts to explore the divine side of childhood, and to put forth a practical design for the care of children's souls. Blending stories, common sense, and scientific observations that demonstrate what the soul is and how it works, this book urges its readers to become aware of children's divine inheritance, and learn how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.22 GURCarter, Arlan.
Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CARBejan, Adrian
Summary: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BEJPhillips, Adrian
Summary: A radically new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s, identifying the individuals responsible for a variety of miscalculations and moral surrender that made World War II inevitable. Appeasement failed in all its goals. The kindest thing that can be said of it is that postponed World War II by one year. Its real effect was to convince Hitler and Mussolini that Britain was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 PHIBloom, Adrian.
Summary: "Gardening with conifers reveals the unexpected magic that conifers can bring to every garden & the many roles they can play in creating structure & balance for year-round visual interest & color. The author describes 200 of his preferred conifers & offers expert advice on conifers & their origin, size & growth rate, site & soil preferences, planting, maintenance & propagation, pruning, pests &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9775 BLOBrooks, Adrian
Summary: Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 BRORoom, Adrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NTC Pub. Group 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 292.13 ROOTinniswood, Adrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 724.5 TINAtria, Travis
Summary: "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIGGS, ARTHUR BRIAldrin, Buzz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989