Attia, Peter
Summary: "Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2023
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Summary: "A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 960 AtinukePallotta, Jerry
Summary: Contains facts about Tasmanian devils and wolverines, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2013
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Summary: Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 973.04 SorellYoo, Paula
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 305.8 YooStewart, Melissa
Summary: "It is time for T. rex and his dinosaur cousins to step aside and let other mega-predators like the terror bird and the giant ripper lizard take the spotlight! Travel back to prehistoric times and meet some of the most impressive creatures to ever roam the Earth. You'll be amazed at the size and the fierceness of these lesser-known predators, many of them ancient ancestors of animals that we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 567.91 StewartHopgood, Tim
Summary: "Discover the great outdoors with this beautifully illustrated treasury that celebrates the wonder of nature in four glorious seasons. From vibrant springtime flowers to sweet fruits on summer trees, the falling of autumn leaves and snowdrops in winter, this book of four seasons is the perfect introduction to the big outdoors. Discover why birds fly south in winter, find animal footprints in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio 2022
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Summary: "Pia rushes over to the Indigenous community center after school. It's where she goes every day to play outside with friends and work on her homework. But today--March 18, 2021--is special: Auntie Autumn gathers all the children around their television to witness Secretary Deb Haaland in her ribbon skirt at the White House as she becomes the first Native American to serve as a cabinet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 HaalandPincus, Meeg
Summary: "Monarch butterflies swooped through and people wondered, "Where do they go?" In 1976 the world learned: after migrating, the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Mexico. This was a mystery that could only be solved when people worked as a team"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Full of fascinating facts on space exploration, our solar system, and beyond, this comprehensive book from astronomer Dean Regas takes you on a mind-blowing tour of our universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 629.4 RegasRomero, Libby.
Summary: The Highlights Book of How is the essential book of curiosity and wonder, integrating STEM content, experiments, and activities. This companion to the Highlights Book of Things to Do provides dozens of ways for kids age seven and up to explore and create while deepening their understanding of science. This highly visual, hands-on book showcases kids' science questions (many of which were sent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 502 HighlightsAgrawal, Roma
Summary: "From skyscrapers to bridges, meet the extraordinary people who helped build some of the world's architectural marvels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 624 AgrawalNwora, Christle
Summary: "It's another busy day at the hospital! Meet doctors and nurses, ride in an ambulance, and discover the magic of medicine in this nonfiction story for kids. This book is perfect for any child who is nervous about a trip to the hospital. Dr. Christle Nwora takes readers behind the scenes to meet the incredible people who keep you healthy, from surgeons to mental health therapists. Dr. Nwora also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 362.11 NworaFoer, Franklin
Summary: "On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.934 FoerMontgomery, Sy
Summary: When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles--with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal--are given a second chance at life. The Leagues founders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "Delightful rhymes and charming hand-stitched art celebrate the many ways we sleep across the world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "The origin stories of each Chinese dish told using the framework of Chinese cuisine--oftentimes based in folklore, both ancient and contemporary"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 641.5 LinBerne, Jennifer
Summary: "Rhyming text follows the evolution of the ocean, from the fiery time of its birth to the marvelously biodiverse present. Includes notes from the author and illustrator, spotlights on past and present marine life-forms, a timeline of evolutionary eras, a glossary of key terms, and recommended further reading"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 551.46 BerneBerg, Scott W.
Summary: "In the fall of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the "big one" -- a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. It had been bone-dry for months, and a recent string of blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department's already scant resources. Then, on October 8, a minor fire broke out in the barn of Irishwoman Kate Leary. A series of unfortunate mishaps and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BergPhilip, Leila
Summary: "In the rich naturalist tradition of H Is for Hawk and The Soul of an Octopus, Beaverland tells the tumultuous, eye-opening story of how beavers and the beaver fur trade shaped America's history, culture, and environment. Before the American empires of steel and coal and oil, before the railroads, there was the empire of fur. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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Summary: "Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Parenting Collection, Call number: PARENTING 372.4 SmartGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 GladwellKoonin, Steven E.
Summary: The author points out that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. He provides insights and perspective free from political agendas, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths. He points out that the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2021