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LaGuardia : a very modern story of immigration

The confessions of Frannie Langton : a novel

Be transported to scenes of trees and flowers

The collected stories of Machado de Assis

The Darling Dahlias and the unlucky clover

Dreaming spies : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate rose

The white garden : a novel of Virginia Woolf

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Parasite : a graphic novel in storyboards

Go to sleep (I miss you) : cartoons from the fog of new parenthood

Transformers/Ghostbusters. Ghosts of Cyberton

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. The Beast of Vargu and others

Award-winning nonfiction, 2018-2020

The lost art of Scripture : rescuing the sacred texts

The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz

The loneliness of the long-distance cartoonist

Volume control : hearing in a deafening world

The crowded hour : Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the dawn of the American century

The contender : the story of Marlon Brando

The sirens of Mars : searching for life on another world

The uninhabitable earth : life after warming

The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story

The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care

The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal

I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution

A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century

Shakespeare in a divided America : what his plays tell us about our past and future

Black is the body : stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine

The biggest bluff : how I learned to pay attention, master myself, and win

Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town

Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country

Elderhood : redefining medicine, life, and aging in America

You don't have to wait until Earth Day to learn about ways to protect our planet. To follow the City of Iowa City's happenings, visit www.icgov.org/sustainability.

The seasons alter : how to save our planet in six acts

Great tide rising : toward clarity and moral courage in a time of planetary change

Climate-wise landscaping : practical actions for a sustainable future

The Practical Preppers complete guide to disaster preparedness

Atomic adventures : secret islands, forgotten n -rays, and isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear science

Off the grid homes : case studies for sustainable living

Sustainable materials with both eyes open

Musings of an energy nerd : toward an energy-efficient home

A question of power : electricity and the wealth of nations

The third horseman : climate change and the Great Famine of the 14th century

Extreme cities : the peril and promise of urban life in the age of climate change

Horsemen of the apocalypse : the men who are destroying life on Earth--and what it means for our children

No place to go : how public toilets fail our private needs

Greenpeace captain : my adventures in protecting the future of our planet

Live sustainably now : a low-carbon vision of the good life

Building green : a complete how-to guide to alternative building methods : earth plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs

L'art de la simplicite = how to live more with less

Climate justice : hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future

The boiling river : adventure and discovery in the Amazon

Atmosphere of hope : searching for solutions to the climate crisis

Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity

Sun power : how energy from the sun is changing lives around the world, empowering America, and saving the planet

Green from the ground up : a builder's guide : sustainable, healthy, and energy-efficient home construction

Farm together now : a portrait of people, places, and ideas for a new food movement

Thirst for power : energy, water and human survival

The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster

Our house is on fire : scenes of a family and a planet in crisis

The unsettlers : in search of the good life in today's America

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Birdman : or, (The unexpected virtue of ignorance)

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