Rearick, Ben
Summary: "How could a smarter lunch line make life easier for the kids and teachers in your school? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for them. This book introduces readers to design thinking and asks them to look at their school lunch line (the pros and cons of it) in a specific way to figure out how to improve it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2019
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Summary: An influential economist challenges popular opinions about the superiority of locally grown and expensive foods, demonstrating how to eat responsibly without submitting to fashion-driven trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 COWBlonder, Ellen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5951 BLOGhiyam, MaryRuth
Summary: "In 2013, MaryRuth was in six figure personal debt, devastated by sudden the loss of her father and brother and struggling in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse. A trained nutritional consultant and culinary chef, MaryRuth turned to her passion: helping others lead balanced, healthy lives. She started consulting clients using twelve core principles that could help individuals discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health GhiyamKverneland, Steffen
Summary: "An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream.' Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter -- anguished, starving and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little "s" Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 MCCJohnston, David C.
Summary: How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? This book answers this great economic question, revealing how today's government policies and spending benefit the wealthy. Johnston shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect--thwarting competition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.973 JOHPryor, Shawn
Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.6 PRYOsburn, Mary Grace
Summary: Money and keeping track of spending are vital life skills as well as math standards. This curriculum-based book uses an entertaining setting, a zoo, and an appealing narrative to introduce and strengthen readers understanding of money concepts. Readers will be delighted by the many animals featured throughout, as well as the fun facts revealed about them. The cheerful text is accompanied by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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Summary: "The New York Times book critic gathers his literary chorus to capture the pure pleasure of reading and eating in this comic, soulful, semi-autobiographic treasure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: Did you know that flamingos are very social animals and do most everything as a group--or that they get their pink color from the food they eat? Be surprised and awed by every page of this captivating book! Features include stunning photography; a fact file which breaks down vital data points in an easy-to-follow and understand format; fast facts; a family tree to show the evolution of and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook presents over 100 recipes that showcase the cookery and customs of the Crawley household-from upstairs dinner party centerpieces to downstairs puddings and pies-and bring an authentic slice of Downton Abbey to modern kitchens and Downton fans. Whether adapted from original recipes of the period, replicated as seen or alluded to on screen, or typical of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2019
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Summary: Presents information about the crab spider, including photographs and diagrams, how they relate and differ from other spiders, and where they live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Pub. Company 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.44 MARAlessi, Jolene
Contents: Forced to jump -- Horrible hairworm -- Transport host -- Grasshopper for lunch -- Infected! -- Looking for water -- The hairworm lives on -- How do we know? -- More parasites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Animal Zom AlessiFoster, Kim
Summary: "James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 FOSBizzarri, Amy
Summary: The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that offered nearly 3 million unemployed, unmarried men the job of restoring and conserving America's public lands, forests and parks. The program also threw in three square meals a day served in the camp mess hall. Bizzarri's book features the recipes that sustained not only the CCC during the Great Depression but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Palate, a division of The History Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 BIZNelson, Kiki
Summary: Sharing more than 125 wide-ranging, simple recipes and the four-week meal plan that helped her lose weight and reverse her risk for diabetes and heart disease, the author presents this updated edition of her plant-based, low-fat cookbook that has been expanded with new information, inspiration, and photos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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Summary: "In his classic book Devil's Bargain, Joshua Green chronicled how the forces of economic populism on the right, led by the likes of Steve Bannon, turned Donald Trump into their flawed but powerful vessel. In The Rebels, he gives an epic account of the long struggle that has played out in parallel on the left, told through an intimate reckoning with the careers of the three political figures who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: There is no more essential place to show up for people than on the plate. Extra Helping is for anyone who wants to respond to the challenge of baby announcements, PTO meal chains, and CaringBridge alerts with compassion and creativity; who wants to send something to a niece overcome by finals week or a neighbor who is grieving; and whose limits of time and other resources leave them feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ELSThompson, Veronica
Summary: Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed animal crafts, including converting a recycled jar into a retro bird feeder, turning recycled paper into wild lion wall art, and transforming old T-shirts into a dog toy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 THOLondon, Martha
Summary: "A hammerhead shark puts on a burst of speed, crushes its target beneath its wide, flat head, and gulps down a whole chunk of prey-without even chewing first. The hammerhead shark may have a unique head shape, but this tool is full of surprises that make it a fierce hunter. Dive under the waves to see the hammerheads incredible senses at work, follow along with its migration, learn how it has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2022
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Summary: "Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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Summary: "The best-selling author and popular NYT columnist gives us his innovative and easy diet plan, complete with recipes--by eating vegan every day before 6:00 p.m., you can lose weight and dramatically improve your health. Every day we learn new benefits of the vegan diet, and discover how cutting meat and animal products out can still mean a world of delicious meals. Now Mark Bittman brings his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2013