Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
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Autobiography of Mark Twain
Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
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Yellow Dirt : An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
"Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could be mined from the hundreds of rich deposits entombed under the sagebrush plains and sandstone cliffs. Despite warnings from physicians and scientists that long-term exposure could be harmful, even fatal, thousands of miners would work there unprotected. A second set of warnings emerged about the environmental impact. Yet even now, long after the uranium boom ended, and long after national security could be cited as a consideration, many residents are still surrounded by contaminated air, water, and soil. The radioactive 'yellow dirt' has ended up in their playgrounds, in their bread ovens, in their churches, and even in their garbage dumps. And they are still dying.
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Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species
Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species / Joel Sartore
When a few of these photographs first appeared in the "National Geographic" magazine January 2009 issue, they were hailed as an arresting reminder of the hundreds of species teetering on the brink of final extinction--more than 1,200 animals and plants in all. Now, in "Rare, " Joel Sartore and National Geographic present 80 iconic images, representing a lifelong commitment to the natural world and a three-year investigation into the Endangered Species Act and the creatures it exists to protect.
This book will give readers not only a broader understanding of the history and purpose of the Endangered Species Act, but also an intimate look at the very species it seeks to preserve. With stunning up-close portraits on every page, this important volume evokes sympathetic wonder at the vast and amazing array of plants and animals still in need of protection.
Itself a creation of particular beauty, "Rare" offers eloquent proof that a picture really is worth a thousand words as it shows us, one after another, scores of uniquely remarkable and seriously threatened life-forms. It is a compelling story and a many-faceted, brilliant jewel of a book.
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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
Leafcutter ants are familiar to all who watch nature shows about the tropics, or those who live in rural Texas and Louisiana. These are the ants busily running in columns on trails they keep free of debris and vegetation, carrying freshly cut sections of leaves and flower petals over their heads like parasols. If one followed the ants to their nest, one would discover an immense network of tunnels, the majority of which are an underground garden in which the ants grow their food fungus planted onto a substrate of chewed plant material previously brought by the ants. - Booklist
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Books – Fiction
| Books – Non-fiction | Music CDs | DVDs |
| The help / Kathryn Stockett. | Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen / Christopher McDougall. | Consolers of the lonely / The Raconteurs. | All about Steve |
| Worst case : a novel / James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. | Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage / Elizabeth Gilbert. | Joy / Phish. | I love you, man |
| The girl who played with fire / Stieg Larsson | Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea / Chelsea Handler. | In rainbows / Radiohead. | Zombieland |
| I, Alex Cross : a novel / James Patterson. | Eat, pray, love / Elizabeth Gilbert. | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix / Phoenix. | Julie & Julia |
| U is for undertow / Sue Grafton. | Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman / Jon Krakauer. | Let it bleed / the Rolling Stones. | Inglourious Basterds |
| Split image / Robert B. Parker. | Chelsea Chelsea bang bang / Chelsea Handler. | Congratulations / MGMT. | Taken |
| The girl with the dragon tattoo / by Stieg Larsson | The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls. | Californication / Red Hot Chili Peppers. | Angels & demons |
| Alex Cross's trial / James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. | Open : an autobiography / Andre Agassi. | B-sides and rarities / Cake. | Leatherheads |
| The 9th judgment / James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. | The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot. | Remain in light / Talking Heads. | The invention of lying |
| Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. | Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Greg Mortenson. | Sticky fingers / the Rolling Stones. | What just happened |
Freedom
Freedom/ Jonathan Franzen
*Starred Review* Patty, a Westchester County high-school basketball star, should have been a golden girl. Instead, her ambitious parents betray her, doing her grievous psychic harm. Hardworking Minnesotan Walter wants to be Patty's hero, and she tries to be a stellar wife and a supermom to Joey and Jessica, their alarmingly self-possessed children, but all goes poisonously wrong. Patty longs for Richard, Walter's savagely sexy musician friend. Walter's environmental convictions turn perverse once he gets involved in a diabolical scheme that ties protection of the imperiled cerulean warbler to mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia. Richard is traumatized by both obscurity and fame. Joey runs amok in his erotic attachment to the intense girl-next-door and in a corrupt entrepreneurial venture connected to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The intricacies of sexual desire, marriage, and ethnic and family inheritance as well as competition and envy, beauty and greed, nature and art versus profit and status, truth and lies all are perceptively, generously, and boldly dramatized in Franzen's first novel since the National Book Award-winning The Corrections (2001). Passionately imagined, psychologically exacting, and shrewdly satirical, Franzen's spiraling epic exposes the toxic ironies embedded in American middle-class life and reveals just how destructive our muddled notions of entitlement and freedom are and how obliviously we squander life and love.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist
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The plastic bag ban begins in 2011, read this Sierra Club article about switching to cloth bags and follow the helpful links to find your re-usable bag from re-use it.com or one of the many local retailers selling cloth bags.
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