How's the Weather?

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780194400909

Collation

18p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers 1

Call Number

NOR

Meet Molly

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780194400879

Collation

-

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers level One

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NOR

The Blind Watchmaker

From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paley's argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Da…

Cogan's Trade

Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the “best” from “the Balzac of the Boston underworld.” Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston’s precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction h…

The Selfish Gene

In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. This anniversary edition retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters in the second edition, and a new Introduction by Dawkins.

Art

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194646345

Collation

32p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Read and Discover level 1

Call Number

700 NOR

The Monkey King Amazing Adventures : A Journey To The West in Search of Enlig…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780804842723

Collation

226p; bw; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 WUC T

The Epic Of Gilgamesh

A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resol…

A Year Down Yonder

The year is 1937, and the Great Depression has hit the Dowdel family hard. 15-year-old Mary Alice is sent downstate to live with Grandma Dowdel while her ma and pa eke out a meager living in Chicago. Mary Alice is less than thrilled with the arrangement. Grandma's hickville farming community couldn't be more different from Chicago if it tried, and the grandmother Mary Alice remembers from child…

Stories to Solve

Each of these delightful folktales is a short puzzle to be solved through cleverness, common sense, or careful observation of details in the text. Turn the last page of each story to find the answer!