Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACSummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINBakker, Nienke
Summary: The mental state of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) has been a perennial source of discussion and conjecture since his death by suicide. Was he mentally ill or a genius? What was the precise nature of Van Gogh's illness? Did it influence his work? This intriguing publication examines how Van Gogh's mental condition revealed itself in 1888 and how he struggled with it throughout his life. Van...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercatorfonds 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT BAKOrgel, Doris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ORGContents: Frog prince -- Faithful John -- Six Swans -- Singing, soaring lark -- God's food -- Raven -- King of the golden mountain -- Golden bird -- Knoist and his three sons -- Golden goose -- Donkey cabbages -- Juniper tree -- Jorinda and Joringel -- Three little men in the wood -- Maid of Brakel -- Brother and Sister -- Goose-girl -- Cinderella -- Water of life -- Table the Ass and the Stick --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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Summary: Presents the lives and accomplishments of eight women artists from around the world. Every story comes with an engaging activity that will nurture a child's own varied skills and inspire them to pursue a treasured goal or aspiration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 AMSLOBOS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOBLevi, Primo.
Summary: "While awaiting return home in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi, along with his friend, the doctor Leonardo De Benedetti, was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz for the Russian authorities. Published the following year, it was then forgotten and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Here, it is published for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVHuq, Priya
Summary: "Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HUQLevi, Primo.
Summary: In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVGrimm, Jacob
Summary: A collection of fourteen fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, including "The Donkey," "The Mongoose," "Iron John," and "Jorinda and Joringel."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GRISilvers, Erica
Summary: Juliette is a great cat and an excellent friend. One day, her owner decides to follow Juliette and see what life is like for a cat. Juliette spies lots of other animals, like mice and birds. She enjoys a long nap in the sun by a brook. Eventually, the child falls asleep and wakes up to find Juliette gone! The child goes home, while Juliette is left to enjoy adventures on her own. Juliette does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 RAMABasil, Priya
Summary: "A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177 BASLevi, Primo.
Summary: First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVChen, Loris
Summary: This new edition of Painless Chemistry provides students with a lighthearted, step-by-step approach to understanding chemistry concepts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 540 CHEDi Prima, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DIPLevi, Primo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy of the U.S.A. 1986
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Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 DUNSummary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHLowis, Kristina.
Summary: Presents fifty paintings by major artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work and a timeline for the artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2009
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Summary: You may think you need a big yard to compost. Think again. Compost City teaches you how to easily choose and care for a compost system that fits perfectly into your (tiny) space, (busy) schedule, and (multifaceted) lifestyle. Whether you live in a cramped apartment or a sprawling town house, or you dream of composting in a shared space with a group of friends or colleagues, Compost City...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books 2015