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Things in nature merely grow
Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781250437976
- Collation
- 172 p. ; 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 920 YIY t
The cost of living
What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in the world not arranged to her advantage?
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781635573534
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- 134 p. ; 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 920 LEV t
Shakespeare
Find out about Shakespeare’s childhood in the English countryside and how it inspired his works. Discover Shakespeare’s lasting influence on everything from films and festivals to musicals and cartoons. See inside the original Globe Theatre and learn how a play was set up and performed.
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- -
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- 9780241523032
- Collation
- 48 p. ; ill. ; 28 cm
- Series Title
- Eyewitness
- Call Number
- 920 DOR s
Prehistoric people
Who were our earliest ancestors and how did they live? Step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page... Learn to hunt mammoth and reindeer, make clothes from animal skins and paint on cave walls.
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- -
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- 9781851034529
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- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
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- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 930 JEU p
Atlas of the earth
See how wins, water and ice sculpt valleys and mountains. Witness a new island being born as a volcano erupts. Find out how landscapes are formed over millions of years
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034062
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 910 JEU a
Egyptian tombs
Light up the past as you enter an Egyptian tomb. What do the strange hieroglyphics mean? Who is inside the sarcophagus? How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034291
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 932 DEL e
Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780812987492
- Collation
- 380 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 921 NEW a
A short history of the world in 50 failures
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789297089
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- 288 p. ; ill. ; 18 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 909 GAZ a
Spice: the 16th century contest that shaped the modern world
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competi…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780300281125
- Collation
- 304 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 909 CRO s
Black hawk down: a story of modern war
Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780802144737
- Collation
- 382 p. ; 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 967 BOW b
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