Author: Robertson, Donald, 1972- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 183.2 ROBERTSO
Format: Books
Summary: "How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life? Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition, and Godfather to the Stoics. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet few people today are familiar with the wisdom he has to offer us. How to Think Like Socrates is an accessible and informative guide to the life of one of the greatest thinkers in history, and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives. Author Donald J. Robertson transports readers back to ancient Athens, expertly weaving together a page-turning account of a philosopher who eschewed material pleasures and stood by his beliefs, even in the face of controversy, with a steadfastness that ultimately resulted in his execution. How to Think Like Socrates highlights the continuing value of the Socratic Method to modern life. As a practicing cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, Robertson also uses his expertise to reveal many parallels between the evidence-based concepts and techniques of modern psychology and the philosophy of Socrates, and shows how his philosophical insights can guide and benefit all of us to this day"--
Author: Henkenius, Merle, 1950- author. Willson, Steven, author. Byers, Charles, 1959- editor. Creative Homeowner Press.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 696.1
Format: Books
Summary: Be your own plumber and make DIY repairs and improvements! This best-selling guide on plumbing will teach you everything you need to know from toilet installation and repairs to running underground sprinkler systems for your garden and yard irrigation. This new edition, Ultimate Guide Plumbing, 6th Edition, also includes new information on leak detection, mixed water temperature control, alkaline water treatment and scale reduction devices, domestic water heaters, drinking water treatment units and is updated with 2024 National Plumbing Code Standards.
Author: Tew, Jill, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y TEW
Format: Books
Summary: In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a customer offers her a ludicrous sum to go on an assignment in no-man's-land, Liv accepts. Now she just has to survive. Rookie Forceman Adrian Rao believes in order over all. After discovering that a renegade Proxy s shady dealings are messing with citizens brain chemistry, he vows to extinguish the threat. But when he tracks Liv down, there s one problem: her memories are gone. Can Adrian bring himself to condemn her for crimes she doesn t remember?
Author: Goodrich, Richard J., 1962- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 629.1309 GOODRICH
Format: Books
Summary: "In this soaring history, author Richard J. Goodrich uncovers the neglected story of early American aviation and the California School of flight -- none of them named Wright -- whose disciples left lasting impacts still felt in the air today"-- "Although most credit Wilbur and Orville Wright with America's first powered flight, two months before the brothers lifted off the sands of Kitty Hawk, a French immigrant named August Greth flew the California Eagle, an airship of his own design, across the skies of San Francisco. While the Wrights claimed they had invented a flying machine, Greth and the California aviators proved it in front of thousands of spectators at state fairs and festivals across the country. L.A. Birdmen is the fascinating and forgotten story of America's first aviators--Californians like August Greth, Tom Baldwin, Roy Knabenshue, John Montgomery, and James Zerbe. Possessing a rare blend of ingenuity, creativity, and bravery, these pilots captured the world's attention in 1910 when Los Angeles hosted America's first international airshow. Inspired by a flying exhibition held in Reims, France, Los Angeles promoter Dick Ferris convinced the city to host a competing event--a show that featured the world's best pilots and machines and would firmly establish Los Angeles as the center of American aviation..." --Amazon.com
Author: Rishi, Farah Naz, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y RISHI
Format: Books
Summary: "Anisa Shirani is...well, perfect. A fact, not an opinion. Of course, it's all a front to feed her own praise-obsessed ego. Behind closed doors, she is--some might say--a little slobbish and snobbish, and she works obsessively to maintain her God-given talents. Fate has favored her, but Ani knows better than anyone that fate is made by effort. But she must, especially when all signs point to her being a top-notch lawyer with a top-notch education and being destined to marry Isaac, total heartthrob and eldest son of the richest family in the community. A perfect girl deserves a perfect life, and Ani's perfect life is going exactly the way it should... Until Ani's parents announce they're getting divorced. Until Isaac shows all the signs of...cheating. Sort of. Until she starts catching feelings for Marlow, an overly friendly weirdo she's hated since the moment she laid eyes on him in class. How can fate be so wrong?"--
Author: Zaleski, Laurie, author.
Published: 2023 2021
Call Number: LP B ZALESKI
Format: Large print
Summary: "Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues -- horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs -- when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued. Although there are some sad parts (as life always is), there are lots of laughs."--
Author: Pachter, Abbey, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 595.789
Format: Books
Summary: A retired nurse, midwife, scientist, and nature lover, the author rescues a caterpillar from a December ice storm. Declining to simply let nature take its course, she is determined to learn all she can to care for the monarch butterfly that soon emerged in her home while winter raged outdoors. From caterpillar to chrysalis through his time as a butterfly, "Spot's" life is in her hands. Each day brings beauty, wonder, and often another problem to solve. How and what will he eat? Should he be free-range? Where will he roost? How long will he live? We learn how his needs change as he ages, as do ours--adapted from back cover.
Author: Rochinski, Steve, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: B ROCHINSK
Format: Books
Summary: "When a boy's childhood is destroyed by a vicious sexual predator, everything changes. With no one to turn to in his dysfunctional family, he lived only in fear with a single hope for salvation: music. Born with a synesthete's ability to hear music in every sound around him, a guitar became the key for him to escape his existence in a halfway world."--Back cover
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: Y ANDERSON
Format: Books
Summary: "As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
Author: Galbraith, Robert author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: F GALBRAIT
Format: Books
Summary: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before.
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Published: 2010
Call Number: Y ANDERSON
Format: Books
Summary: Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse author.
Published: 2008
Call Number: Y ANDERSON
Format: Books
Summary: When their owner dies at the start of the Revolution, Isabel and her younger sister are sold to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”
To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has left an enduring mark on American culture.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has left an enduring mark on American culture.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
A mythical lion cub stuck in the modern world must harness the power of stories to save his family and return home.
A mythical lion cub stuck in the modern world must harness the power of stories to save his family and return home.
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