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What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service

Melissa Fitzgerald - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*. A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, with compelling insights from cast and crew exploring what made the show what it was and how its impassioned commitment...
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It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World

Mark Miodownik - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us - they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere....
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King Cobra vs. Mongoose (Animal Battles)

Kieran Downs - Bellwether Media
Format: Library Binding

In the jungles of Southeast Asia, king cobras strike their foes with deadly bites. But mongooses are equipped with a secret weapon! This high\-interest title introduces readers to the body parts and fighting moves that king cobras and mongooses use to defeat their foes. Special features...
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The 12 Steps to a Community-Led Library

Audrey Barbakoff - ALA Editions
Format: Paperback

Libraries want to be more responsive to their diverse communities. Yet many libraries lack the structures, cultures, and mindsets to sustain community-led methods. This book lays out an evidence-based, twelve-step process that will help you transform your library in ways that serve your...
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Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists

Leah Penniman - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people's spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming While BlackAuthor of Farming While Black and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, Leah Penniman...
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When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future

Paul Bierman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Paul Bierman's realization that Greenland's ice sheet melted when Earth was no warmer than today sounds an alarm for our planet.In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist...
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Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog

Brian Hare - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Genius of Dogs take us into their "Puppy Kindergarten," a center to study how puppies develop, to show us what goes in to raising a great dog.. What does it take to raise a great dog? This was the question that husband-and-wife team...
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

Daniel J. Levitin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing.Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas,...
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Teaching Life Skills at the Library: Programs and Activities on Money Management, Career Development, and More

Kimberli S. Buckley - ALA Editions
Format: Paperback

Between making financial decisions, maintaining a healthy work-life balance, and juggling health, family, friends, and other responsibilities, life can feel overwhelming. Place these same responsibilities on an individual just entering adulthood who has less real-life experience and it can feel...
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Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity

R. Scot Duncan - University Alabama Press
Format: Paperback

Explores the Southeast's imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction Southern Rivers, by award-winning nature writer and biologist R. Scot Duncan, is a thoroughly crafted exploration of the perilous state of the Southeast's...
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