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Wings : birds, bees, biplanes, and other things with wings / by Turner, Tracey,author.(CARDINAL)424101; Burke, Fatti,illustrator.(CARDINAL)789847;

Flying insects -- Butterflies -- Flying reptiles -- The first birds -- Lots of birds -- Bats -- Magical wings -- The flight of Icarus -- People take off! -- Gliders -- Flying machines -- From biplanes to supersonic planes -- Planes of the future -- Helicopters -- Wings in space -- Wings that don't fly -- Flying without wings -- Wandering albatross wings -- All sorts of birds."Wings takes readers on a fact-packed flight over a fascinating subject. Written by Tracey Turner, it offers a bird's-eye view of the first airplanes, the fastest jet planes, beetles, birds, winged horses, flying dragons-even winged unicorns. There's fun, easy-to-read information on wings of all kinds, including plenty of STEM material, presented in a mixture of text and speech bubbles that's perfect for readers aged 7 plus. With Fatti Burke's stylish and colorful illustrations, Wings is a wonderful journey of discovery." --

Subjects: Informational works.; Picture books.; Airplanes; Animal flight; Animals, Mythical; Birds; Flight; Helicopters; Insects; Wings (Anatomy);

Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13

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New York, New York! : the Big Apple from A to Z / by Melmed, Laura Krauss.(CARDINAL)363242; Lessac, Frané,illustrator.(CARDINAL)739829;

An alphabetical tour of the city that never sleeps introduces A for the American Museum of Natural History to Z for the Bronx Zoo.Welcome to New York City, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the crossroads of the world! This city has something to offer everyone, from A to Z. Come visit the American Museum of Natural History and see prehistoric Animals, get a Bird's-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Check out Central Park in this alphabetical tour from best-selling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frane Lessac, who brought us Capital! Washington D.C. from A to Z. Fascinating details about the many neighborhoods and historic places of New York City accompany Melmed's lively, informative verse, and Lessac's vibrant folk-art paintings capture the essence of this unique and rich place that was once called the melting pot of America.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Alphabet books; Alphabet; Concept books.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5

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The doll's alphabet / by Grudova, Camilla,author.(CARDINAL)416621;

""This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque." -Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird "Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual world-a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along." -Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be "Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writinghas to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick-it has to be both memorable and fleeting." -Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies-by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions andmotifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta"--

Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Metamorphosis;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Paris. by Pirolli, Bryan,author.(CARDINAL)793213; Tillier, Alan,author.(CARDINAL)779138;

Discover -- Experience -- Need to know.Find your corner of Paris with this essential travel guide to this beautiful city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you've even packed your case - get a bird's eye view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower, admire the art at the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre, or take a stroll along the Canal St-Martin. A year-long calendar of events in Paris gives a selection of local events and festivals for all seasons. Hand-drawn illustrations show the inside of the must-see attractions, including Notre-Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, the Sacré-Coeur and the Panthéon. Covers Île de la Cité and Île St-Louis; the Marais; Bastille and Oberkampf; République and Canal St-Martin; Belleville and Ménilmontant; La Villette; Montmartre and Pigalle; Opéra and Grands Boulevards; Louvre and Les Halles; Eiffel Tower and Invalides; Champs-Élysées and Chaillot; St-Germain-des-Prés; Latin Quarter; Jardin des Plantes and Place d'Italie; Montparnasse and Jardin du Luxembourg; plus sights beyond the city"--

Subjects: Guidebooks.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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Angry birds : explore the world! : packed with animals, fun facts, games, maps, and more! by Green, Erica,project manager.(CARDINAL)417540; Hiscott, James,Jr.,art director.(CARDINAL)618533; Laine, Pekka,project editor.; Elomäki, Mari,project editor.; Makkonen, Anna,graphic designer.(CARDINAL)735157; Rovio Entertainment.(CARDINAL)603069; National Geographic Society (U.S.),publisher.(CARDINAL)140388;

Welcome -- North America -- South America -- Europe -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia -- Antarctica."Follow along with your favorite Angry Birds characters as they fly around the world, exploring cool places, new cultures, and wild creatures on all seven continents. Meet ocelots, lemurs, and other exotic animals and get a bird's-eye view of their habitats and the geographical features, landmarks, and monuments found where they live. This introduction to the world outside their own backyards gives curious kids a taste for adventure. Lively text, maps, activities, and learning exercises are designed to help kids build basic skills and to analyze and observe the world from a global perspective."--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Habitat (Ecology); Animal ecology; Angry Birds (Game);

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Ballet's magic kingdom : selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 / by Volynskiĭ, A. L.,1863-1926.(CARDINAL)753194; Rabinowitz, Stanley J.,editor,translator,writer of introduction,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)516792;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Dance as a Solemn Ritual (1911) -- Coppélia (1911) -- Tamara Karsavina: The Trial of Damis; The Nutcracker (1911) -- Mathilda Kshesinskaya: Swan Lake (1911) -- Schumann, Ballet, and Fokine (1912) -- Eunice and Chopiniana (1912) -- Errors of Creation: On Papillons and Islamey (1912) -- The Little Dove: Harlequinade (1912) -- The Russian Dance: Die Puppenfee (1912) -- Raymonda (1912) -- Coppélia (1912) -- Vaganova's Variation (1912) -- The Tsar Maiden: A New Production of The Little Humpbacked Horse (1912) -- A Circle of Immovable Stars: Alexander Gorsky and Mikhail Fokine (1913) -- Isadora Duncan: The Last Word (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Pavlova's Farewell Performance: La Bayadère (1913) -- A Kaleidoscope of Attire: Still More on Konstantin Korovin (1914) -- Elegy (1915) -- Mikhail Fokine: Some Lines Toward a Polemic (1915) -- La Jota Aragonese (1916) -- My Miniatures: Swan Lake (1920) -- Marius Petipa's La Bayadère (1922) -- The End of the Season: Lida Ivanova (1922) -- Two Schools of Classical Dance: Sleeping Beauty (1922) -- Stravinsky's Ballets (1922) -- The Birth of Apollo (1923) -- What Will Ballet Live By? (1923) -- A Wretched Housepainter: The Nutcracker (1923) -- The Weeping Spirit (1923) -- The Innovator: Mikhail Fokine (1923) -- Don Quixote (1923) -- Classical Attire (1923) -- Naked, Barefoot, and Beltless (1923) -- Swan Lake: The Swan in Music (1923) -- Sleeping Beauty (1923) -- Swan Lake: The Swan in Motion (1924) -- Lida Ivanova (1924) -- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1924) -- Tamara Karsavina (1924) -- Principles of Classical Dance -- Features and Forms -- In the Center -- Allegro -- A Bird's-Eye View."Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history." "Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky's articles - vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize."--

Subjects: Ballet; Ballet;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Landscapes : John Berger on art / by Berger, John,author.(CARDINAL)147930; Overton, Tom,editor.(CARDINAL)623717;

"With Portraits, world-renowned art writer John Berger took us on a captivating journey through centuries of art, situating each artist in the proper political and historical contexts. In Landscapes, a narrative of Berger's own journey emerges. Through his penetrating engagement with the writers and artists who shaped his own thought, Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxembourg and Bertolt Brecht among them, Landscapes allows us to understand how Berger came to his own way of seeing. As always, Berger pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his painter's eyes lead him to refer to himself only as a storyteller. A landscape is, to John Berger, like a portrait, an animating, liberating metaphor rather than a rigid definition. It's a term, too, that reminds us that there is more here than simply the backdrop or 'by-work' of a portrait. Landscapes offers a tour of the history of art, but not as you know it"--

Subjects: Art.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry / by Rich, Adrienne,1929-2012,author.; Gilbert, Sandra M.,editor,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)735291;

"A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and a major intellectual voice of her generation. The Essential Essays gathers twenty- five of Rich's most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich's essays unite the political, personal, and poetical"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.The treasures that prevail / Sandra M. Gilbert -- On lies, secrets, and silence: selected prose 1966-1978. When we dead awaken: writing as revision ; Jane Eyre: temptations of a motherless woman ; Vesuvius at home: the power of Emily Dickinson -- Uncollected. Poetry and experience: statement at a poetry reading ; Caryatid: a column -- Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution (1976). Foreword ; Anger and tenderness ; Motherhood and daughterhood -- Blood, bread, and poetry: selected prose 1979-1985. What does a woman need to know? -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian experience ; Split at the root: an essay on Jewish identity ; The eye of the outsider: Elizabeth Bishop's complete poems, 1927-1979 ; Blood, bread, and poetry: the location of the poet -- What is found there: notebooks on poetry and politics (1993, 2003). Woman and bird ; Voices from the air ; The distance between language and violence ; Not how to write poetry, but wherefore ; "Rotted names" ; A poet's education ; Tourism and promised lands ; Six meditations in place of a lecture -- Arts of the possible (2001). Muriel Rukeyser: her vision ; Why I refused the National Medal for the Arts ; Arts of the possible -- A human eye (2009). Permeable membrane ; Poetry and the forgotten future.

Subjects: Poetry.; Essays.; Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.; Feminism.; Art and society.; Social change in literature.; Feminism.; Women's movement.;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis / by McGreevy, John T.,author(CARDINAL)393832;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-493) and index."A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between "progress" and "tradition" in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church's complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism. McGreevy documents the hopes and ambitions of European missionaries building churches and schools in all corners of the world, African Catholics fighting for political (and religious) independence, Latin American Catholics attracted to a theology of liberation, and Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic governments. He includes a vast cast of riveting characters, known and unknown, including the Mexican revolutionary Fr. Servando Teresa de Mier; Daniel O'Connell, hero of Irish emancipation; Sr. Josephine Bakhita, a formerly enslaved Sudanese nun; Chinese statesman Ma Xiaobang; French philosopher and reformer Jacques Maritain; German Jewish philosopher and convert, Edith Stein; John Paul II, Polish pope and opponent of communism; Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian founder of liberation theology; and French American patron of modern art, Dominique de Menil. Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details currents of reform within the Church as well as movements protective of traditional customs and beliefs. Conflicts with political leaders and a devotional revival in the nineteenth century, the experiences of decolonization after World War II and the Second Vatican Council in the twentieth century, and the trauma of clerical sexual abuse in the twenty-first all demonstrate how religion shapes our modern world. Finally, McGreevy addresses the challenges faced by Pope Francis as he struggles to unite the over one billion members of the world's largest religious community"--

Subjects: Catholic Church; Catholics;

Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 15

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Don't sweat guide for couples: 100 ways to be more intimate, loving and stress-free in your relationship / by Carlson, Richard,1961-2006,author.(CARDINAL)765397;

Subjects: Fiction.; Behavior modification.; Self-management (Psychology); Peace of mind.; Stress management.; Interpersonal relations.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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