Crothers, Tim.
Summary: The astonishing true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the slums of Kampala, Uganda, who, inspired by an unlikely mentor, a war refugee turned missionary, becomes an international chess champion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, inc. 2016
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Summary: "Ocean Planet is the stunning new book from natural-history illustrator Ben Rothery-- and offers a rich exploration of the creatures from the coastal and offshore waters of the world--from penguins, seagulls, polar bears and seahorses, to plankton, sharks"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021
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Summary: Tapper exposes the origins of one of the Afghan War's deadliest battles for U.S. forces and details the stories of soldiers heroic and doomed, shadowed by the recklessness of their commanders in Washington, D.C. and a war built on constantly shifting sands.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. Tammet goes back in time to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; he looks at the music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 TAMCappel, Constance
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fleet Pub. Corp. 1966
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Summary: When the author notices the girls in her class were not participating as much as the boys, she discusses it with her Girl Scout Troop and comes up with a creative way to encourage classroom participation in girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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Summary: "With grace, poetry, clarity, and expert knowledge, artist Etienne Appert brings us a book about the very origins of the art of illustration--what it means and why it exists. 'Why do you draw?' A simple question by a young boy moves the author to travel with him down the River of Ink, which flows from the present day back to the very first illustration drawn by a human. Along the way, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.09 APPJones, Happeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howell Book House 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.76 JONAdney, Tappan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 AdnTammet, Daniel
Summary: A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1994
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Summary: An autistic savant with genius-level mathematical talents describes how he was shunned by his classmates in spite of his super-human capacity for math and language and offers insight into how he experiences the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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Summary: The mathematical savant uses personal stories and everyday examples to describe the way numbers and equations form the basis of our lives, from snowflakes to Anne Boleyn's extra finger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Tepper, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1988
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Brothers Grimm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unicorn Publishing House 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 398.2 GRIBrothers, Joyce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.88 BROStatler Brothers
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1971
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Summary: "You Can Have A Better Period is a straight-talking resource to help women understand their menstrual cycles and finally get answers to questions such as: "why am I so moody right before my period?," "are periods supposed to be so painful?," "why is my period so heavy?," "is it normal to get headaches right before my period?" Le'Nise Brothers takes us through each phase of our cycle, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 BROClancy Brothers
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Summary: Max is a cat. He attacks. From socks to strings to many a fish, attacking, for Max, is most delish. But how many of these things can he actually catch? Well, let's just say it's no even match.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: Why do we pretend that the world's religious traditions are different paths to the same God? Scholar Stephen Prothero argues that it is time to replace naive hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. He maintains that each religion attempts to solve a different human problem, and examines each of these traditions on its own terms to create an indispensable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010