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Summary: Provides practical advice for RV travel in the United States, including detailed maps and information on trip-planning, itineraries, and attractions and campgrounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILBolden, Tonya
Summary: "A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHICline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Written by award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome, here is her story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHIBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022
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Summary: A new cross-genre collection that engages historical and personal explorations of gender and self. Aligned with queer theories of temporality, fragments of memoir rub against the language of psychiatric and medical regimes at the site of a body that does not conform to a gender binary. Some Animal draws out dream-like and supernatural resonances between the literature of pathology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightboat Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SHISlader, Erik
Summary: Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 910.9 Slader 2019Slader, Erik
Summary: Describes the lives of the two American brothers who designed, built, and flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft to fly successfully, detailing the many ishaps and misadventures that preceded it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 387.7 Slader 2018Kobliner, Shirly
Summary: "Engage with everyday expressions in a completely different (and fun!) way, with this entertaining and interactive book of common phrases that can turn a humdrum gathering into a raucous game night. We use expressions all the time. When you feel sick, you're "under the weather." When you feel great, you're "on top of the world." You may be fine with "half a loaf," or you may insist on "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word KoblinerSlader, Erik
Summary: Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 692.4 Slader 2018McCoy, Shirlee
Summary: "Returning to their hometown isn't something the Bradshaw brothers ever thought they'd do. But a family tragedy has reunited them in Benevolence, Washington--where second chances, reignited dreams, and real love are never far away. Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCShipley, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell Pub. 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386.224 SHIShipley, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.224 SHISlater, Dashka
Summary: "When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.829 SLASlater, Dashka
Summary: "After a long winter spent indoors, adorable French snail Escargot ventures out into the world, searching for signs of spring, and meets a fluffy white bunny along the way, in this delightful tale of unlikely friendship"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus Giroux 2024
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Summary: A psychologist and writer describes how her love of animals helped shape her life, recounting her experiences at a horseback riding camp as a child and the marital difficulties caused by her decision to neuter the family dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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Summary: "In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the builder of board games, Milton Bradley. Follow the story from Bradley's childhood, his early entrepreneurial work creating and selling stationery, his drafting education at Harvard, his first business creating and selling lithographs, and how these experiences came together when he formed the Milton Bradley Company and created the Game...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRAShipley, Neil
Summary: Sweden is a strikingly beautiful country with a reverence for the natural environment. Its extremes in geography, climate, and history have given rise to a population that values honesty, self-sufficiency, and harmony. Swedes are a rights-driven, modern, and tech-savvy people who also retain a deep respect for their own cultural legacy. A good background knowledge of the beliefs and values that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.85 SWEShipley, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell Pub. 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386.224 SHISummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILCalkhoven, Laurie
Summary: "A ready-to-read level 3 biography of Shirley Chisholm, who, in 1972 became the first African-American woman to enter the Democratic presidential race in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CALSlater, Lauren
Summary: Blue Dreams charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Author Lauren Slater chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her analysis of each treatment, Slater asks how the drug was born, how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 SLASlater, Dan
Summary: The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What’s it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? In the border town of Laredo, Texas, Gabriel and his friend Bart abandon promising futures for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 SLASlater, Lee
Summary: Looks at the Kristiansen family, who created LEGO.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books,an imprintof Abdo Publishing 2022