- The lacuna : by
Kingsolver, Barbara.
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"The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Epistolary fiction.; Americans; Identity (Psychology); Subversive activities;
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© 2009., Harper,
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- Home safe : a novel / by
Berg, Elizabeth.
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- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Widows; Mothers and daughters; Parent and adult child; General;
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- Ordinary life : Stories by Berg, Elizabeth;
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- Subjects: Short stories, American;
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© 2002, Random House
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- Water for elephants : a novel / by Gruen, Sara.;
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.--From publisher description.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Circus; Depressions; Circus performers;
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© 2007., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
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- In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / by Pollan, Michael.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-228) and index.THE AGE OF NUTRITIONISM. From foods to nutrients -- Nutritionism defined -- Nutritionism comes to market -- Food science's golden age -- The melting of the lipid hypothesis -- Eat right, get fatter -- Beyond the pleasure principle -- The proof is in the low-fat pudding -- Bad science -- Nutritionism's children -- THE WESTERN DIET AND THE DISEASES OF CIVILIZATION. The Aborigine in all of us -- The elephant in the room -- The industrialization of eating: From whole foods to refined -- From complexity to simplicity -- From quality to quantity -- From leaves to seeds -- From food culture to food science -- GETTING OVER NUTRITIONISM. Escape from the Western diet -- Eat food: food defined -- Mostly plants: what to eat -- Not too much: how to eat."Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach.Mar08gNFJan08sNFOrginal GMD: [text] :20080114 vh
- Subjects: Nutrition.; Food habits.;
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© c2008., Penguin Press,
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- The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals / by Pollan, Michael.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: our national eating disorder -- Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest -- The farm -- The elevator -- The feedlot: making meat -- The processing plant: making complex foods -- The consumer: a republic of fat -- The meal: fast food -- Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass -- Big organic -- Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture -- The animals: practicing complexity -- Slaughter: in a glass abattoir -- The market: "greetings from the non-barcode people" -- The meal: grass-fed -- Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal.May 2006 SecPL_NFGDPLBestbets12012006Oct08sNF20060531 jll
- Subjects: Food habits; Food preferences; Food habits.; Food preferences.; Food;
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© 2006., Penguin Press,
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- The Spellman files / by Lutz, Lisa.;
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- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Spellman, Isabel "Izzy" (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
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© c2007., Simon & Schuster,
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- Curse of the Spellmans [sound recording] / by Lutz, Lisa.; Graynor, Ari.;
- Read by Ari Graynor.Compact discs.Orginal GMD: [sound recording] /Set includes: 5 compact discs.Set includes: 5 compact discs.CDABK20080326 neb
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Spellman, Isabel "Izzy" (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
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© 2008., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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- Revenge of the Spellmans by
Lutz, Lisa
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- Subjects: Humour; Mystery;
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© 2009, Simon & Schuster
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- Outliers : the story of success / by
Gladwell, Malcolm,
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index.Roseto mystery -- The Matthew effect (Matthew 25:29) -- The 10,000 hour rule (Hamburg) -- The trouble with geniuses, part I -- The trouble with geniuses, part II -- The three lessons of Joe Flom -- Harlan, Kentucky -- The ethnic theory of plane crashes -- Rice paddies and math tests -- Marita's bargain (KIPP) -- A Jamaican story.Identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.20081124 mht
- Subjects: Successful people.; Success.;
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© 2008., Little, Brown and Co.,
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