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Living by water / by Cregan, Lisa.;
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Subjects: Interior decoration.; Interior decoration; Seaside architecture.; Seaside architecture; Lakeside architecture.; Lakeside architecture; Architecture, Domestic.; Architecture, Domestic; Vacation homes.; Vacation homes;
© c2014., Hearst Books,
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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake / by Miles, Tiya,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag -- including Rose's message that "It be filled with my Love always." Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley. From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter, Miles then follows the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States. The contents of the sack -- a tattered dress, handfuls of pecans, a braid of hair, "my Love always" -- speak volumes and open up a window on Rose and Ashley's world. As she follows Ashley's journey, Miles metaphorically "unpacks" the sack, deepening its emotional resonance and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained. These include the story of enslaved labor's role in the cotton trade and apparel crafts and the rougher cotton "negro cloth" that was left for enslaved people to wear; the role of the pecan in nutrition, survival, and southern culture; the significance of hair to Black women and of locks of hair in the nineteenth century; and an exploration of Black mothers' love and the place of emotion in history"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina); Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942; African American women; African American women; Enslaved persons; Enslaved women; Enslaved women; Memory; Mothers and daughters.;
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Driving the Saudis : a chauffeur's tale of the world's richest princesses (plus their servants, nannies, and one royal hairdresser) / by Larson, Jayne Amelia.;
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Subjects: Āl Saʻūd, House of; Saudi Arabians; Chauffeurs;
© c2012., Free Press,
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5 flights up [videorecording] / by Freeman, Morgan,actor.; Keaton, Diane,actor.; Loncraine, Richard,film director.; McCreary, Lori,film producer.; Nixon, Cynthia,actor.; Peters, Charlie,screenwriter.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Ciment, Jill,1953-Heroic measures.Videorecording.; Mongrel Media,publisher.;
Director of photography, Jonathan Freman ; music, David Newman ; editor, Andrew Marcus.Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Carrie Preston, Cynthia Nixon, Alysia Reiner.A married couple's attempts at selling their New York apartment don't quite go as planned over the course of one crazy weekend.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Ciment, Jill, 1953-; Comedy films.; Feature films.; House selling; Married people; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
For private home use only.
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Afternoon on the Amazon [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Osborne, Mary Pope.; Murdocca, Sal.;
Read by Mary Pope Osborne.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.Vampire bats and killer ants? That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them back in time to a South American rain forest in search of the elusive Morgan le Fay. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost on the Amazon River. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree house before they are trampled by stampeding killer ants?Ages 6 to 9.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Jack (Fictitious character from Osborne); Annie (Fictitious character from Osborne); Time travel; Magic; Tree houses; Rain forests; Rain forest animals; Rain forests; Rain forest animals; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
© 2021., Yoto Inc.
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Madam speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power / by Page, Susan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'Madam Speaker' is the definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by author and USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page.
Subjects: Biographies.; Pelosi, Nancy, 1940-; United States. Congress. House; Legislators; Politicians; Women legislators; Women politicians;
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The chameleon handbook / by Le Berre, François.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 146), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Chameleons as pets.; Chameleons.;
© c2009., Barron's,
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Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House / by Maddow, Rachel,author.; Yarvitz, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later? The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon's second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when-at the height of Watergate-three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon's impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described "counterpuncher" vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a "witch hunt," riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive. In this blockbuster account, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz detail the investigation that exposed Agnew's crimes, the attempts at a cover-up-which involved future president George H. W. Bush-and the backroom bargain that forced Agnew's resignation but also spared him years in federal prison. Based on the award-winning hit podcast, Bag Man expands and deepens the story of Spiro Agnew's scandal and its lasting influence on our politics, our media, and our understanding of what it takes to confront a criminal in the White House."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Political corruption; Vice-Presidents;
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An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / by Yong, Ed,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension-the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic fields, and brainless jellyfish that nonetheless have complex eyes. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, and that even fingernail-sized spiders can make out the craters of the moon. We meet people with unusual senses, from women who can make out extra colors to blind individuals who can navigate using reflected echoes like bats. Yong tells the stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, and also looks ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved"--
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Neurosciences.; Perception in animals.; Physiology.; Senses and sensation.;
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Common ground / by Trudeau, Justin,1971-auteur.;
Subjects: Trudeau, Justin, 1971-; Canada. Parliament. House of Commons; Liberal Party of Canada; Liberal Party of Canada;
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