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Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world / by Parker, Matt(Mathematician),author.;
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up"--
Subjects: Mathematics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Freedom ship : the uncharted history of escaping slavery by sea / by Rediker, Marcus,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad's long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America now known as the Underground Railroad. Yet imagery of fugitives ushered clandestinely from safe house to safe house fails to capture the full breadth of these harrowing journeys: many escapes took place not by land but by sea. Deeply researched and grippingly told, Freedom Ship offers a groundbreaking new look into the secret world of stowaways and the vessels that carried them to freedom across the North and into Canada. Sprawling through the intricate riverways of the Carolinas to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay to Boston's harbors, these tales illuminate the little-known stories of freedom seekers who turned their sights to the sea-among them the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, one of the Underground Railroad's most famous architects. Marcus Rediker, one of the leading scholars of maritime history, puts his command of archival research on full display in this luminous portrait of the Atlantic waterfront as a place of conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation. Freedom Ship is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the complete story of one of North America's most significant historical moments"--
Subjects: Antislavery movements; Fugitive slaves; Stowaways; Underground Railroad;
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The husbands [sound recording] : a novel / by Gramazio, Holly,author.; Raison, Miranda,1980-narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Miranda Raison."A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Attics; Husbands; Magic; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hush Harbor : a novel / by Vance, Anise,author.;
"A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly original debut novel. After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces their enslaved ancestors would gather to pray. Jeremiah Prince, alongside his sister Nova, are leaders of the revolution, but have ideological differences regarding how the movement should proceed. When a new mayor with ties to white supremacists threatens the group's pseudo-sanctuary and locks the city down, the collective must come to a decision for their very survival. Haunting, provocative, heart-pounding and tender, Hush Harbor presents a high-stakes world grounded on the thought-provoking premise: What would you sacrifice in the name of justice?"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Social problem fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; African Americans; Dystopias; Government, Resistance to; Murder; Police brutality; White supremacy movements;
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A bold pumpkin plan / by Hudson, Katy.;
Timid Hedgehog wants to build a special house this year, but first she must get the pumpkin she selected home--a task that requires her to overcome her fears and ask for help from some other animals.
Subjects: Animal fiction.; Picture books.; Pumpkin; Hedgehogs; Animals; Dwellings; Courage; Friendship;
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The Haunted Palace. by Corman, Roger,film director.; Paget, Debra,actor.; Cook Jr., Elisha,actor.; Gordon, Leo,actor.; Chaney Jr., Lon,actor.; Price, Vincent,actor.; Filmhub, Inc. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Debra Paget, Elisha Cook Jr., Leo Gordon, Lon Chaney Jr., Vincent PriceOriginally produced by Filmhub, Inc. in 1963.Charles inherits a house from his ancestor who was burned at the stake for being a warlock. But the warlock put a curse on it, and now Charles has come to pick up where he left off.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Motion Pictures.;
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13 days to die : a novel / by Miksa, Matt,author.;
In a far-flung Tibetan village, prayer flags flap against whitewashed houses and a majestic monastery stretches to heaven. It's Shangri-La--the earthly paradise--until a stranger staggers out of the forest and collapses into a bloody, lifeless mass. He's the first victim of a crippling epidemic, but he's no ordinary man. Olen Grave, an American intelligence officer, heads directly into the hot zone to investigate. Posing as a journalist, he joins the Chinese research team, led by a headstrong female virus hunter, Dr. Zhou Weilin. Together, the unlikely allies discover that Patient Zero was a spy who deliberately infected himself. But why? Who did he work for? As Olen and Dr. Zhou rush to uncover the shocking truth behind the epidemic, they unravel a twisted conspiracy that reaches from Beijing's great halls to Washington's corridors of power. With the superpowers now at the brink of war, the fate of the world will rest on the duo's shoulders.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Epidemics; Intelligence officers;
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Banksy : the man behind the wall / by Ellsworth-Jones, Will.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is now venerated; fans have gone so far as to dismantle the walls that he has painted on for collection and sale ... In the first ever full-scale investigation of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success. And he explores the contradictions of a champion of renegade art going to greater and greater lengths to control his image and his work.
Subjects: Banksy.; Artists; Graffiti artists; Graffiti.; Street art.;
© c2013., St Martin's Press,
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Wicked Nix / by Coakley, Lena,1967-; Zollars, Jaime.;
Nix the mischievous woodland fairy tries to chase away a man who comes to live in a house in the forest, but it eventually becomes clear that neither the man nor fairy are all that they appear to be.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Brothers; Fairies; Enemies; Forests and forestry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The therapist / by Paris, B. A.,author.;
"The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive ... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem ..."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Gated communities; Secrecy; Murder;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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