Zimmerman, Karla
Summary: Highlights the eastern U.S.'s top travel experiences, providing a monthly calendar of popular events, road trip and scenic drive ideas, and information on sights, dining, accommodations, shopping, and entertainment in each area profiled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USABehrens, Ken.
Summary: Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a mystery. The keys to the mystery—the subtle traits that unlock the identity of flying waterbirds, be it wingbeat cadence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCASummary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEAHospodar, George
Summary: "This trip resulted in their first book, Reflection on America's Great Loop, a personal, light-hearted, real-life account of the couple's travels while circumnavigating the waters of the United States and Canada. Their newest book, The Great Loop Experience--from Concept to Completion, is a comprehensive guide written to help others plan, prepare, and successfully execute their own Great Loop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 NORKutub, Naz
Summary: Sy, a seventeen-year-old gay Muslim boy, travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC KUTBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUGalbraith, Peter (Peter W.)
Summary: Following his New York Times bestseller The End of Iraq, Peter W. Galbraith describes the storm the next president will inherit in the Middle East as a result of President George W. Bush's failed Iraq policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GALFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Indian immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 FORGerolymatos, André.
Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSShankar, Ravi
Summary: "The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center -- a level 4, high-security urban jail in Connecticut -- he met men who shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHANKAR, RAVI SHALurie, John
Summary: "'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LURIE, JOHN LURSimon, Steven
Summary: "A longtime American foreign policy insider's biting and definitive reckoning with the high cost of this country's ambitious meddling in the Middle East-and its bitter end The culmination of almost 40 years of expertise and insider policy access, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon's tour de force, offering a comprehensive yet analytical tour of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Simon begins with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73056 SIMIndyk, Martin
Summary: "A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arabneighbors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 INDDeb, Sopan
Summary: Deb's experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign, and subsequently as a stand-up comedian, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his father and bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEB, SOPAN DEBPuri, Sunita
Summary: "A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PURI, SUNITA PURSummary: With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, examine the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from the past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUMYaqub, Salim.
Contents: Part 1: Lecture l. A meeting of two worlds -- Lecture 2. Wilson & the breakup of the Ottoman Empire -- Lecture 3. The interwar period -- Lecture 4. U.S. & the Middle East during World War II -- Lecture 5. Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East -- Lecture 6. Truman & the creation of Israel -- Lecture 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East -- Lecture 8. The Suez crisis & Arab...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 YAQGhosh, Madhushree
Summary: "Khabaar is a food memoir/narrative braiding global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration and indenture focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners asking the simple question of what it means to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. This question is braided into the author's own immigration journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GHOHarrison, Jim
Summary: In this collection of new and previously published essays, Jim Harrison muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life and death on the US/Mexico border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARTaylor, Goldie
Summary: An acclaimed journalist and human rights activist shares the harrowing yet deeply hopeful story of her troubled childhood in East St. Louis--a memoir of family, faith and the power of books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAYLOR, GOLDIE TAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TAYLOR TAYForster, Matt
Summary: "Written to steer campers away from concrete slabs and convoys of RVs, Best Tent Camping: Michigan points tent campers to the most scenic and serene campsites in the state. This guide has a campground to suit nearly every camper's taste. You'll find essential information about each campground (including season, facilities, rates, directions, GPS coordinates, and Web sites), as well as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menasha Ridge Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 FORHamza, Nina
Summary: "A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021