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Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Customer service is one of the most critical staff development training areas in the library world. Every member of a library's staff who interacts with the public needs the specialized skills and tools to work with a diverse clientele. This book addresses the need for staff training for various kinds of libraries, covering public and academic libraries of various sizes, medical libraries, law libraries, and state organization and joint-use libraries.Each...
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall's new translation remains true to Sophocles original text while fashioning a language of grace and power, with contemporary players and theatergoers in mind.
4) Old Mars
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- A Princess of Mars. The Martian Chronicles. This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations—by no...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
-- The Guardian LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: -- somethings Featuring stories by: Erin E. Adams, Violet Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Maurice Broaddus, Chesya Burke, P. Djèlí Clark, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Justin C. Key, L. D. Lewis, Nnedi Okorafor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nicole D. Sconiers, Rion Amilcar Scott, Terence Taylor, and Cadwell Turnbull.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Learn the secrets of Shaolin Temple boxing also known as Shaolin Kung Fu with this illustrated matrtial arts guide. Shaolin Temple boxing is the father of all boxing forms in China and is a close ancestor of Japanese karate. Despite the widespread study of Shaolin kung fu, however, the true origins and history of this exciting martial art have been obscured by wildly fanciful myths and legends that have arisen over the centuries, leading martial-arts...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A celebration all the different people and cultures under the sun from Mary Ann Hoberman, award-winning and bestselling author of the You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series. Throughout history, from dinosaurs and ancient Rome to today's bustling playgrounds and cafes, one thing binds us all together: the sun! Beloved author Mary Ann Hoberman weaves together timely themes of valuing diversity, building community, and caring for the environment in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- The Black Dahlia From the genre’s infancy come gems like James M. Cain’s “Pastorale,” while its postwar heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay, with many page-turners appearing from the 21st century.
12) The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Jack Reacher a drifter? How did a brief encounter in...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
-- The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem This collection encompasses it all, in conversations that delve into her underappreciated mid-career works,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- Downton AbbeyMasterpiece Classic counterpart, Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman.This rich...
17) ROBOT RESCUE
Author
Series
CatStronauts volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the fourth book in the CatStronauts graphic novel series, the stalwart Cat-Stro-Bot is stranded, and the CatStronauts have to stage an off the books robot rescue! Cat-Stro-Bot has been with the CatStronauts through it all. But now he's stranded on Jupiter's coldest moon after a mission gone wrong--and his best friend/creator Blanket isn't about to leave him behind. When CATSUP refuses Blanket's rescue mission request, he creates robo-stand-ins...
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
-- This engaging, full-color, activity-packed guide is ideal tool for sharpening math skills!McGraw-Hill's Math Grade 3This book features:• New: Two-page guide shows how states have adopted Common Core State Standards as well as the standards adopted by non-Common Core states • Material and practice exercises that promote better scores on state achievement tests • A 10-Week Summer Study Plan that shows parents how to create a successful study...
Author
Publisher
America's Test Kitchen
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A one-stop shop for the perfect Thanksgiving, with over 25 classic recipes from America’s Test Kitchen Choosing 25 recipes from the hundreds of Thanksgiving recipes we've developed over the years was a difficult task, so we concentrated on the classic recipes that home cooks say are their "go-to" favorites—the recipes that their families and friends look forward to seeing on the holiday table year after year: 5 turkey recipes to choose from:...