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Author
Publisher
Blue Note
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Charles Lloyd's new studio album features a newly assembled quartet of four distinctive voices with the legendary saxophonist joined by pianist Jason Moran, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Brian Blade. Recorded around Lloyd's 85th birthday concert, this is a majestic body of work that presents Lloyd originals new and reimagined. The double album finds one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth and 21st centuries still at the peak...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This picture book about a young boy on the autism spectrum highlights the way he functions differently from his classmates. His way of being in the world has both its challenges and its strengths"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A distinguished geologist and a popular science writer Charles Frankel turns his attention in his latest book to the mass extinctions on our planet, considering what the past can tell us about the future. Explaining Earth's past mass extinctions, Frankelsuggests that, each time, a decrease in biodiversity created fragile conditions that eventuated into widespread and cataclysmic disappearances. The rise of mammals led to the rise of humans, who,...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem."--Amazon....
Author
Publisher
Podium Publishing
Pub. Date
02/28/2023
Language
English
Description
"House witch Finlay Ashowan is pulled out of the kitchen--and into the fire--as war, family, and love collide in the third book of this fantasy romance series. Having somehow convinced Lady Annika Jenoure to marry him, all Finlay Ashowan wants to do is settle down, cook some good meals, and enjoy a quiet life in Daxaria. But fate has different plans. Fin's father, Aidan Helmer, fire witch and servant of King Matthias of Troivack, has arrived in the...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Part true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan. How we explain the evils of the world-and the darkest parts of ourselves-has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil's Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable...
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