Alvarez, Lorena
Summary: After entering an empty turtle shell she found on a school trip, Sandy meets Hicotea, who has filled the shell with paintings, sculpture, and books, but when Sandy encounters Livion, a dark force, she learns a lesson about the power of art and imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2019
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Summary: "Church is more than just a building-it's a gathering of God's people to celebrate who he is and all that he has done. It's also where we learn about God's vision for justice and unity! Told in a delightful rhyme, this colorfully illustrated children's book also includes tools to help parents engage in conversation about the content"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: InterVarsity Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCary, Lorene
Summary: Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARY CARCary, Lorene.
Summary: In 1855, a Southern slave abandons her child to obtain freedom. She is Ginnie of Virginia who escapes while with her master in Philadelphia. The novel portrays her hiding from slave catchers, agonizing over the son she left behind and reinventing herself as Mercer Grey to become a famous abolitionist. By the author of Black Ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARLorenz, Albert
Summary: In this history, each century is examined through the perspective of a city that helped define the age. Maps drawn from a bird's eye's point of view introduce each chapter, then follows a dramatic historical event which represents the spirit of the age under examination. Forming a two-page border around this main illustration is a selective international chronicle of the century's key...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 307.7 LORLorenz, Taylor
Summary: "For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 LORDe' Medici Stucchi, Lorenza
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Publishers 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5945 DEMCorera, Gordon
Summary: The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 CORHertz, Noreena
Summary: "An economist takes on the most urgent social issue of our time, exploring the evolution of the global loneliness crisis, the sweeping impact of social isolation during the coronavirus, and the opportunities a post-Covid world presents to reverse these trends-by finding new ways to reconnect with each other, our communities, and even our democracy. Even before the global pandemic brought terms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 HERLoreau, Dominique
Summary: Simplify your home, empty your wardrobe, abandon compulsive purchases, eat more frugally but better, take care of your body and mind. From the art of feeling well in your home to the art of feeling well in your body, this compelling and elegant book will transform your life and take you on an empowering journey to happiness. You will feel energized, more confident and free. You will discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Griffin 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648 LORBaldwin, Alec
Summary: Follows the story of John DeLorean through the creation of his company and car to his downfall through drug trafficking and friendship with an FBI informant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRAMcKennitt, Loreena
Contents: CD. All souls night -- Bonny Portmore -- Between the shadows -- Lady of Shalott -- Greensleeves -- Tango to Evora -- Courtyard lullaby -- Old ways -- Cymbeline.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quinlan Road Ltd. 2004
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Summary: "Part of the nonfiction Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book examines our relationships with watersheds and what we need to do to protect them for future generations."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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Summary: Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GROBERG, FLORENT GROHertz, Noreena.
Summary: Offers advice for becoming a competent, empowered decision-maker, citing recent research to suggest ways of making sound choices in spite of emotions and habits that tend to hinder judgment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.83 HERJeffries, Corina
Summary: "Dinosaurs are fascinating subjects for a young artist. This book explores huge herbivores like Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus. Readers will also discover vicious carnivores like Tyrannosaurus rex and Deinonychus. Each spread allows readers to deeply connect with the dinosaur through fun facts. Then, it presents accessible step-by-step instructions for how to draw that dinosaur. Incredible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: J 743.6 JEFLoring, Gloria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.462 LORReid, Joy-Ann Lomena
Summary: Joy-Ann Reid, the host of MSNBC's AM Joy, assesses the Trump presidency in this urgent and deeply reported analysis of our national crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co., an imprint of HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 REIEiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISEicher, Lovina
Summary: Bestselling cookbook author and food columnist Lovina Eicher brings together the best of Amish cooking in The Essential Amish Cookbook: Everyday Recipes from Farm and Pantry. Join Eicher as she shares traditional Amish recipes along with her own kitchen tips and secrets. Growing up, Eicher learned to cook and bake at an early age alongside her mother, longtime columnist and Amish cookbook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herald Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 EICChalmers, Irena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 CHAGoren, Viola.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.8652 GORForkner, Lorene Edwards.
Summary: Turn ordinary, galvanized fencing into a beautiful, sculptural plant support; stack a tower of delicious herbs in pots to pack more flavour into every square metre; and create more growing space with an unexpectedly elegant scrap metal planting ledge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 FORCorera, Gordon
Summary: "The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the United States and the West over the past 15 years, culminating in their interference in the 2016 presidential election"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020