Saran, Suvir.

Summary: The author, born and raised in India and an acclaimed New York City restaurateur and chef, tells the story of moving to the country to raise goats, alpacas, ducks, geese, and chicken on 67 acres. Accompanied by more than 80 recipes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011

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Sarat, Austin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2001

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Kazlowski, Steven.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2008

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Saras, Avikshit

Summary: This book 3D Printing Made Simple takes you through this exciting innovation, a technology called 3D Printing. It is revolutionising the way we do a lot of things and not just the creation of physical objects. The huge growth rates are a direct result of its applications for prototyping and mass production in a number of industries, thanks to an ever-increasing list of 3D printable materials....

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Publisher / Publication Date: BPB Publications 2018

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Stockman, Farah

Summary: "Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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Marsh, Sarah

Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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boyd, danah (danah michele)

Summary: An absolutely essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014

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Marsh, Sarah Glenn

Summary: "The inspiring true story of Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across America in 1909."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

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Farah, Nuruddin

Summary: "A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011

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Maslowski, Peter, 1944-

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1993

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Pellowski, Michael Morgan.

Summary: Describes how to write a comic book script, complete with ideas on how to develop characters and plots, as well as how to use different approaches in drawing. This book also covers jobs that are involved in comic book production, which include writer, editor, penciller, letterer, and inker.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 1995

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Ahmedi, Farah.

Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005

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Farah, Douglas.

Summary: What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global...

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007

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McMahon, Serah-Marie

Summary: Looks at the harmful history of fashion, including profiles of garments, accessories, and fabrics that have injured or killed their wearers; accounts of modern factory accidents; and issues of workplace safety in the textile and garment industries.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Qwlkids Books 2019

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Khanna, Parag

Summary: "In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a continuous feature of human civilization has been mobility. History is replete with seismic global events-pandemics and plagues, wars and genocides. Each time, after a great catastrophe,our innate impulse toward physical security compels us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled-not now, not ever. The filled-with-crises...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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Samaha, Albert

Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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Maher, Sanam

Summary: "In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020

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Makdisi, Saree.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008

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Sallah, Michael.

Summary: The true story of the seven-month rampage of an elite army unit in Vietnam, an experiment gone terribly wrong, is told from the viewpoints of the soldiers who tried to resist the descent into hell, and those who did not, and includes accounts from Vietnamese who witnessed the Tiger Force's rampages. It is also the story of how these atrocities, covered up by the Army for decades, came to light...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006

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Sarma, Kamya

Summary: Dash and Dot are a pair of robots that you can program using a tablet or smartphone. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2018

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Straw, Julie

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Marsh, Sarah Jane

Summary: "John Hancock and Samuel Adams were an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hancock was young and dashing. Adams was old and stodgy. But working together, they rallied the people of Boston against the unfair policies of Great Britain and inspired American resistance. And to King George, they became a royal pain. When the British army began marching toward Lexington and Concord, sending Hancock and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney · Hyperion 2020

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Baram, Marcus

Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014

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Mir, Saira

Summary: Introduces nineteen Muslim women from all around the world who have found their callings in a vast range of fields, from social justice to competitive sports to the entertainment industry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019

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