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by
Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku
(5)
Summary: Whether you want to hike in Maui's bamboo park, watch for whales, or walk on a black sand beach, the local Fodor's travel experts in Maui are here to help! This guidebook is packed with maps,...
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Call #: 919.692 LYO
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Terry H. Kovel
(2)
Summary: Presents a guide to the most recent prices and photographs for antiques and collectibles, and includes tips on care and identification, cross-references, and record-setting prices.
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Call #: 745.1 KOV
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Martin Edwards
(114)
Summary: This book is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of crime fiction, old and new, from around the world. In what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus, Martin Edwards has...
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Call #: 809 EDW
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: Designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy locals, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too, every map is dotted with user-friendly NFT icons that plot the nearest essential...
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Call #: 917.7311 NOT
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Rick Steves
(24)
Summary: A series of self-guided tours around the city of Rome including the Vatican Museum and St. Peter's Basilica, and the ancient ruins.
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Call #: 914.5632 STE
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Rick Steves
(29)
Summary: Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Spain. Savor authentic paella, run with the bulls in Pamplona, or relax on Barcelona's beaches: experience it all with Rick!
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Call #: 914.6 STE
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
David Quammen
(628)
Summary: This is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David...
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Call #: 614.592 QUA
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Siddhartha Mukherjee
(1,973)
Summary: The discovery of cells -- and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem -- announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture,...
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Call #: 579 MUK
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Alexandra Horowitz
(363)
Summary: Few of us meet our dogs at day one. The dog who will, eventually, become an integral part of our family, our constant companion and best friend, is born without us into a family of her own. A puppy's...
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Call #: 636.7 HOR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Robert Samuels
(965)
Summary: The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store...
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Call #: 305.896 SAM
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Phil Rosenthal
(273)
Summary: Phil Rosenthal, host of the beloved Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, really loves food and learning about global cultures, and he makes sure to bring that passion to every episode of the show....
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Call #: 641.5 ROS
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Walt Bogdanich
(1,375)
Summary: McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and...
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Call #: 338.7 BOG
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Sean M Carroll
(286)
Summary: Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like...
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Call #: 530.11 CAR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Patricia L Bryan
(30)
Summary: On a moonlit night in 1889, the Iowa farmer John Elkins, and his young wife, Hattie, are brutally attacked and murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, is...
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Call #: 364.1523 BRY
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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(8)
Summary: This is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the...
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Call #: 614.592 AFT
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Angela Tedesco
(8)
Summary: On a twenty-acre farm in Iowa in 1995, Angela Tedesco planted the seeds of Turtle Farm, introducing community supported agriculture to Iowa. In this book, Tedesco recounts this adventure in all its...
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Call #: 630 TED
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Matthew W. Waters
(27)
Summary: Cyrus the Great was a transformational figure: an exceptional leader, general, and visionary. He was also the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, which dominated the world stage from the...
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Call #: 935 WAT
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Margaret A Burnham
(179)
Summary: A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from renowned legal scholar Margaret A. Burnham. If the law cannot protect...
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Call #: 342.73 BUR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Louise Perry
(678)
Summary: Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and...
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BOOK
Call #: 306.7 PER
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Dahlia Lithwick
(816)
Summary: After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of...
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Call #: 345.73 LIT
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
J. Bradford DeLong
(538)
Summary: Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological...
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Call #: 330 DEL
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
William Bunch
(423)
Summary: Bunch presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America. He traces the modern history of college in the United States, from the landmark GI Bill and the culture...
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Call #: 378 BUN
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Andrew Doughty , photographer
(1,343)
Summary: This expanded seventh edition is a candid, humorous guide to everything there is to see and do on the island. Explore with Andrew Doughty, best-selling author and longtime Hawai'i resident, as he...
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Call #: 919.693 DOU
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Katherine Blunt
(364)
Summary: Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In this book, Wall Street Journal reporter and...
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Call #: 333.79 BLU
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Mike MacEacheran contributor
(226)
Summary: Epic and idyllic, Norway is a country of contrasts. Whether you want to hike around the Home of the Giants in Jotunheimen, hit the slopes at Hafjell or hunker down in a cozy caf̌ in Oslo, this...
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Call #: 914.81 MAC
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patrick Radden Keefe
(7,292)
Summary: Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging...
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Call #: 364.163 KEE
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Ian Rowe
(35)
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Call #: 155.4 ROW
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
James Kirchick
(578)
Summary: For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War,...
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Call #: 306.766 KIR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Mark Leibovich
(2,756)
Summary: In the early months of Trump's candidacy, the Republican Party's most important figures were united in their scorn and contempt. Then, awkwardly, Trump won. Leibovich tracks what the politicos did to...
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Call #: 324.2734 LEI
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
T. J English
(266)
Summary: This book tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America's most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and...
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Call #: 781.65 ENG
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Nona Willis Aronowitz
(522)
Summary: At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona's life, and in America, was in extreme disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were suffering...
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Call #: 306.7 ARO
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jonathan Lemire
(654)
Summary: Donald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in Ohio. He said that perhaps he wouldn't accept the election results in his race against Hillary Clinton, that the election was "rigged."...
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Call #: 324.973 LEM
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Dana Milbank
(677)
Summary: In 1994 Republican congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America" and put bi-partisanship on notice. A quarter century later, a bloodthirsty mob incited...
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Call #: 324.2734 MIL
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Rinker Buck
(947)
Summary: A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden...
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Call #: 977 BUC
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Beth Macy
(752)
Summary: Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending court battles against opioid makers,...
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Call #: 362.29 MAC
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Daniel Stashower
(1,233)
Summary: 1930s. In the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland was terrorized by over a dozen bodies found scattered around the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of...
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Call #: 364.1523 STA
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Charles Spicer
(48)
Summary: This book tells the astounding story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents wined, dined, and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty,...
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Call #: 940.54 SPI
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Andy Kroll
(170)
Summary: In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on a quiet Washington, DC, street. But who killed Seth Rich? When he was buried in his hometown, his rabbi...
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Call #: 364.1523 KRO
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Casey Parks
(622)
Summary: When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks'...
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Call #: 306.766 PAR
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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by
Frances Mayes
(560)
Summary: While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Call #: 945.5 MAY
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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