Wicker, Alden
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Alden Wicker breaks open a story hiding in plain sight: the unregulated toxic chemicals that are likely in your wardrobe right now, how they're harming you, and what you can do about it. In To Dye For, Wicker reveals how clothing manufacturers have successfully swept consumers' concerns under the rug for more than 150 years, and why synthetic fashion and dyes made from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMIBennett, William J. (William John)
Summary: A comprehensive history of America from Christopher Columbus and the Age of Discovery to the beginning of World War I in 1914, covering major topics including the European conquest, Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Jeffersonian era, slavery and emancipation, and the age of reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Current 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BENFowler, John
Summary: A zoologist's portrait of Dr. Dian Fossey's remarkable mountain gorilla camp documents the story of the controversial unraveling of the Rwandan facility after Fossey's murder and the author's contributions to tracking mountain gorillas through hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOWLER, JOHN FOWBennett, William J. (William John)
Summary: Profiles the key events and figures that shaped United States history during the twentieth century, focusing on the World Wars, the rise of world Communism, the struggle for freedom at home and abroad, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BENSounds Of The City Experience.
Contents: A disc of soul and funk from the Bronx of the early 1970s. Contents: Getting Down -- Through No Fault of our Own -- It's so Wonderful Baby/Gina -- Come on and Stay with Me -- Stuff n Thing -- Keep on Keepin' On -- Babylon -- Reality -- Judgment Day -- My People -- Baby It's The End -- Jam Session -- Look at Billy Go For Her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzman Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SOUTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOLLong, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
Contents: Blazing the trails of tomorrow -- A grass-roots boyhood -- University days -- Detroit-to-New York pioneer tour -- Revolt at Oldsmobile -- Launching his first company -- Out of debt and on their way -- Chalmers-Detroit, and beginnings of Hudson -- Forecasting future trends -- On their own at last -- A millionaire at thirty -- Wednesday in Georgia -- Hudson's growing pains -- With Pershing on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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Summary: "The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 KAYKaag, John J.
Summary: "John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 KAAGrevemberg, Noami J.
Summary: "In 2016, Noami Grevemberg knew she had to make a big change. Dissatisfied with her office job and her "stationary home," she decided to quit her job, sell her belongings, and set out in her 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon to pursue a life of simplicity and travel with her husband and German Shepherd by her side. In her years living full-time on the road, Noami has become an expert in all things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.7 GRELewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWLionberger, John.
Contents: God in a hummingbird: The wilderness is a place of transformation -- It's in our DNA: The wilderness is an ancient, universal experience -- Presence in the present: The wilderness brings us into the present moment, into God's presence -- Scraping the hull: The wilderness returns us to our essence -- God in a box: The wilderness takes us beyond our expectations into God's surprises -- God on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SkyLight Paths Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit LionbergerBurke, John
Summary: John Burke compares gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven. The author shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors--including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people--point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2015