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Call #: 001.9 DIS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jim Marrs
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Summary: Marrs shifts through the historical, scientific and cultural record, showing how numerous ancient texts and tables tell of visitors from the stars colonizing the Earth. Were these visitors simple...
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Call #: 001.9 MAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Gavin Menzies
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Summary: Through an examination of exciting new documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, archaeological artifacts, and cutting-edge DNA evidence, Menzies...
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Call #: 001.94 MEN
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Summary: Explores mysterious places, both ancient and recent, that can provide a better understanding on how people think about the unknown.
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Call #: 001.94 MYS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: Opposing viewpoints on the question of alien abductions are presented in a variety of articles examining the evidence for such a phenomena.
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Call #: 001.942 ALI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Annie Jacobsen
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Summary: Presents a history of the most famous secret military installation in the world, assembled from interviews with the people who served there and formerly classified information.
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Call #: 001.942 JAC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: Explores both sides of the question of whether or not spaceships have visited Earth, looking at issues related to sightings, validity of evidence, government conspiracies, and media hype.
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Call #: 001.942 UFO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Tom Burnette
Summary: "Join investigators Tom Burnette and Rob Riggs on their amazing adventure into the wild where the mysterious creature known as Bigfoot dwells. Over the past twenty years, these two men have dedicated...
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Call #: 001.944 BUR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Linda S. Godfrey
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Summary: "From pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surrounding the most mysterious monsters in America--including Bigfoot,...
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Call #: 001.944 GOD
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Daniel Loxton
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Summary: Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.
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Call #: 001.944 LOX
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Nassim Taleb
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Summary: A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear...
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Call #: 003 TAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: With the advent and explosion of social media, internet access, and smart devices, it is imperative that we help digital users acquire skills and thought patterns to help them navigate the digital...
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Call #: 004 DIG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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George Dyson
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Summary: "Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us...
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Call #: 004 DYS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Walter Isaacson
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Summary: "Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard...
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Call #: 004 ISA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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David Pogue
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Summary: "Did you know that you can dry out your wet cell phone by putting its parts in separate bowls of uncooked rice? That you can scroll through a website using only your spacebar? That if you type your...
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Call #: 004 POG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Michael Miller
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Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for seniors on using the iPad, covering such topics as connecting to Wi-Fi and mobile carriers, using Siri, surfing the web, sending email, installing apps,...
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Call #: 004.165 MIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Brad Miser
(19)
Summary: Easy, clear, readable, and focused on what you want to do. Step-by-step instructions for the tasks you care about most. Large, full-color, close-up photos with callouts to iPhone photos that show you...
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Call #: 004.165 MIS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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David Pogue
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Summary: IOS 11 for the iPhone includes a host of exciting new features, including a revamped Control Center and all-new powers for some of your favorite apps -- Siri, AirPlay 2, Maps, Photos, and Maps. You...
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Call #: 004.165 POG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Christian Keur
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Summary: Presents a guide to the concepts and coding of iOS to create a variety of applications, covering such topics as debugger, core location, reference counting, blocks and categories in Objective-C, and push notifications.
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Call #: 004.167 KEU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Mark Lutz
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Summary: Describes the features of the Python programming language, covering such topics as types and operations, statements and syntax, functions, modules, classes and OOP, and exceptions and tools.
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Call #: 004.1675 LUT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Simon Monk
Summary: "The world of Raspberry Pi is evolving quickly, with many new interface boards and software libraries becoming available all the time. In this cookbook ... Simon Monk provides more than 200 practical...
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Call #: 004.1675 MON
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Matthew A. Telles
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Summary: Full of easy-to-follow lessons for understanding and coding with the user-friendly open-source programming language Python, this guide will have you creating your own scripts in no time.
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Call #: 004.1675 TEL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Nancy Jo Sales
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Summary: Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of...
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Call #: 004.67 SAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Gary D Chapman
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Summary: In this digital age, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with family. Though technology has its benefits, it also has its...
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Call #: 004.678 CHA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Janell Burley Hofmann
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Summary: "In iRules, Hofmann provides families with the tools they need to find a balance between technology and human interaction through a philosophy she calls Slow Tech Parenting. In the book, she educates...
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Call #: 004.678 HOF
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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