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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 65 |
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The #1 New York Times bestselling guide to decluttering your home and the inspiration for the hit Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.
ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying...
ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying...
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Milkweed Editions | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 22 people are on the wait list. |
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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth...
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With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools-with its emphasis on great men in high places-to focus on the street, the home and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the...
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5) Divergent
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Divergent trilogy volume 1
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2011 | 1st ed. | Katherine Tegen Books | 487 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf 5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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YA-CD ROTH
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| p2012 | Dreamscape Media | 9 sound discs (11 hr., 12 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Young Adult Audiobooks YA-CD ROTH |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out 7 copies, 27 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Modernista | Swedish | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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| [2012], ℗2012 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf |
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In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
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6) Kindred
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| c2003 | 25th anniverary edition | Beacon Press | 287 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf |
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| 2004 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list. |
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The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner,...
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner,...
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LP HAWKINS
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015. | Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) | 323 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Book Club has 6 BC HAWKINS Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Fiction F HAWKINS Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Large Print LP HAWKINS |
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CDB HAWKINS
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Audiobooks CDB HAWKINS |
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56 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 56
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online 56 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 56 |
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Online OverDrive Collection has 38
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online 38 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 38 |
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Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.
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Uintah County Library - Second Floor - General NonFiction
363.179 MOORE
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2018] | Sourcebooks | xviii, 477 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - General NonFiction 363.179 MOORE |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Sourcebooks | English | Checked Out 14 copies, 13 people are on the wait list. |
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As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
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305.509 ISENBERG
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Viking | xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - General NonFiction 305.509 ISENBERG |
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online 5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.
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303.3 GREENE
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2000, c1998 | Penguin Books | xxiii, 452 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - General NonFiction 303.3 GREENE |
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| OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list. |
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Draws on the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Von Clausewitz, and others, combining them with the legacies of powerful people throughout history to offer essential ideas of the ways of power.
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A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma
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649.1 MARKHAM
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2012 | Perigee Book | xxvii, 274 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - General NonFiction 649.1 MARKHAM |
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306 MARKHAM
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| 2013 | Tantor Media Inc | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Non Fiction Audio Books 306 MARKHAM |
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| OverDrive | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online 1000007 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has unlimited |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 13 |
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A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham's approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don't need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe—or even punish.
This
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| OverDrive | Phoenix Books, Inc | English | Checked Out 5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 6 |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin--and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending--or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief
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| 2012 | 1st ed. | Feiwel and Friends | 390 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Young Adult Fiction YA MEYER |
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| 2012 | Macmillan Young Listeners | 8 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Feiwel & Friends | English | Checked Out 7 copies, 92 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | V&R Editoras | Español | Checked Out 5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2012], p2012 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (ca. 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf |
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Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
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Divergent trilogy volume 2
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YA ROTH
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2012 | 1st ed. | Katherine Tegen Books | 525 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Young Adult Fiction has 2 YA ROTH |
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| p2013 | Harper Audio | 10 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Young Adult Audiobooks YA-CD ROTH |
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| OverDrive | Katherine Tegen Books | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 38 | |
| OverDrive | Dreamscape Media, LLC | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 13 |
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| OverDrive | HarperCollins US | Available Online Uintah County Library - OverDrive Advantage | |
| OverDrive | HarperCollins | Checked Out 4 copies, 28 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2012], ℗2012 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (approximately 11 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf |
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
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| 2013, c2012 | 1st Vintage Books ed. | Vintage Books | xxiv, 500 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 8 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. |
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A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."
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17) The Color of Law
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation-the laws
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18) Meditations
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| OverDrive | Duke Classics | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has unlimited |
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Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, and during that time, he kept several collections of journals that contained personal notes, militaristic strategy, and ideas on Stoic philosophy. While unlikely that he ever intended to publicly publish these journals, there is no real official title, so most often Meditations is used because of his in depth writings on philosophy. These journals give an introspective look at how and why Marcus...
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306.36
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2013] | Dreamscape Media | 7 sound discs (8 hrs., 50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - Non Fiction Audio Books 306.36 |
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22 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Dover Publications | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 12 | |
| 2014 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 8 | |
| 2013 | OverDrive | eStar Books | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. | |
| 2014 | OverDrive | StarWalk Kids Media | Checked Out |
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Memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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155.904 ROSLING
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018. | First edition. | Flatiron Books | x, 342 pages : illustrations, maps (some color), charts ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf Uintah County Library - Second Floor - General NonFiction 155.904 ROSLING |
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4 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online 4 copies, 15 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"One of the most important books I've ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." – Bill Gates
"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly."
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