Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not?...
Language
English
Description
Alternative, or complementary, health systems are gradually being integrated into American culture and can now be found in many American physicians' offices. This program from The Doctor Is In provides an overview of Chinese and Indian medicine, homeopathy, herbalism, naturopathy, and massage. It also examines osteopathy and chiropractic as practices recognized by traditional doctors. The program observes patients who are using one or more of these...
85) Dread nation
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
11th-12th Grade Reading
Awesome YA Books by Black Authors
High School Project Lit Titles
Project Lit - Full List
Awesome YA Books by Black Authors
High School Project Lit Titles
Project Lit - Full List
Description
"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailingthe War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of afew, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities--and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained...
87) Coup d'etat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the story of an alternate World War II that considers what might have happened if Chamberlain had chosen not to appease Hitler, the Germans fight with England and France to defeat Russia, while the United States struggles in a war against Japan.
91) Girl in a band
Author
Language
English
Description
A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence and as one of the first women of rock and roll.
92) The allergy solution: unlock the surprising, hidden truth about why you are sick and how to get well
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takes an in-depth look at how we can balance immunity through nutrition and lifestyle in order to reverse allergies without drugs.
Language
English
Description
Can prayer account for astonishing recoveries that exceed medical expectations? In this program, doctors-including Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words-and people outside the medical profession share their understanding of prayer as a complementary therapy and the different approaches to using it. They also discuss the difference between curing and healing, and whether or not a patient's death is a failure of prayer. People of different faiths agree...
94) The rising
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony has been banished from...
96) The mechanical
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower. Three centuries later,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A revised and updated edition of the classic handbook for women seeking a safe, organic, eco-friendly, and natural pregnancy, featuring an integrative-based approach with new medical, herbal, and nutritional information. Over the last two decades, The Natural Pregnancy Book has ushered thousands of women through happy and healthy pregnancies. Addressing women's health from conception to birth, Dr. Romm describes herbs that can promote and maintain...
99) "Wild world"
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen track album from the rock group Bastille that will be lead by the first single Good Grief. It follows their 2013 smash debut album Bad Blood.