Morgan, Alyson
Summary: Morgan grew up feeling disconnected from her Haitian roots and suffering from the trauma of racism. To heal herself, she found a connection with the natural world around her: slowing down, respecting the seasons, and growing or foraging plants in her local area. Here she shares her methods of homesteading for anyone to practice in their own life, offering regenerative and sustainable ways of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 MORMiscovich, Richard
Summary: "In the past twenty years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased dramatically in the United States and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more techniques for home and artisan bakers--from baking bread and making pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven firing, from the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 MISContents: Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute of Chicago 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 AncientTrent, Tererai
Summary: "Through one woman's journey from a child bride in a small Zimbabwe village to [a voice] in women's empowerment and education, this manifesto [seeks to inspire] women to pursue their sacred dreams through nine essential lessons brought forth from ancient African wisdom"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enliven Books/Atria 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 TREArmstrong, Karen
Summary: "Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear, to awe, to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as sacred. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: The Portal in Hawthorne Harbor is opening. Aaron Hawthorne must keep it closed. He plans the ritual and counts on his nephew John to assist him. But John is preoccupied with strange dreams, and thoughts that do not seem to be his own. When John steals items from Aaron's house that jeopardize the ritual, it seems he wants the Portal to open.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Claw, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RUSLaDuke, Winona.
Summary: "An overview of efforts by Native Americans to regain cultural and genetic patrimony and the conditions needed for traditional spiritual practices, including tribal histories, analysis of changes to nutrition, economy, and physical environment, and actions taken toward pollution abatement, dam removal, land and cultural reclamation, and alternative energy production"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: South End Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 LADMcPhee, John
Contents: Irons in the fire -- Release -- In virgin forest -- The gravel page -- Duty of care -- Rinard at Manheim -- Travels of the rock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 081 MCPKrishnaji
Summary: "In the bestselling tradition of The Four Agreements, learn how to access the hidden power of consciousness, shed anxiety, and cultivate a life of wealth and happiness with this eye-opening and accessible guide outlining the four keys to success--from the founders of the revolutionary O&O Academy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit KrishnajiDeutsch, Barry
Summary: "When Starflight is stolen by his own tribe, he hopes to at least discover some of the long-held NightWing secrets -- what magical powers they really have, who they're allied with in the war, and where they've been living all this time. But the truth about Starflight's tribe is more terrible than he ever imagined: Not only do the NightWings live in a dark, miserable place, but they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: "Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What PascalTickle, Phyllis.
Contents: No palms in my purse -- Mardi Gras and other portals into mystery -- Of swallowtails in particular -- Watching and waiting -- Final sanity -- On just such a morning -- The bleeding birds -- Runaway son -- Garden myths -- Father and son -- Through the veil torn -- Patron saints and a story of grief -- Dance of the fireflies -- Ascension day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242 TICKeen, Sam.
Summary: Challenges the notions and habits we've formed about religion over the centuries in order for us to build a deeper faith, that is relevant today. Sets out to recover the elemental experience of the sacred in everyday life. By appreciating emotions like wonder, gratitude, anxiety, joy, grief, reverence, compassion, outrage, hope and humility we may once again find ourselves in the presence of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 KEEAnderson, Ferin Davis
Summary: "Environmental scientist Ferin Anderson and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage resources and how climate change is impacting the future of fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 363.37 ANDSteckel, Richard.
Summary: An overview and closer examination of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Every religion is different, but all religions share chertain core values, traditions and practices. This book looks at those common links and shows how faith connects us rather than divides us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 200 STEFelver, Christopher
Summary: Christopher Felver's Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today. In these commanding portraits, Felver's distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each artist's strength, integrity, and character. Accompanying each portrait is a handwritten poem or prose piece that helps reveal the origin of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 920 FELGoodreau, Olivia
Summary: "So many young people are faced with life-changing hardships--from illness and disease to loss and calamity. What Olivia Goodreau discovers through her journey with chronic Lyme , and what she has been sharing with the world, is that inside of every predicament is also a possibility. This is the story of how Olivia turned the physical challenges and emotional hardships she had faced since she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaudium Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Nero became Emperor in A.D 54. On the evening of July 18, 64 A. D., it seems that a lamp was left unextinguished in a stall still heaped with piles of combustible material. Whether this was accidental or deliberate we cannot now determine, and normally it would not have led to anything that would have attracted even local attention. But there was a gusty wind that night, and the flickering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 BARSchmid, Konrad
Summary: "The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they transformed on the journey from folk tale to holy writ? Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter unearth the history,in the process overturning assumptions about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 SCHSchuh, Mari C.
Summary: Save! Learn how fire engines get the job done through narrative nonfiction, fun facts, infographics, a glossary, and more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaleidoscope 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Transport SchuhBaldwin, James
Summary: At once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BALScales, Sandra
Contents: Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche: Wisdom from the Lord of the Mandala -- Kyabje Dilgo Khyentsi Rinpoche: Freeing the mind and emotions -- MindrollingTrichen Rinpoche: Truth and courage -- Dodrupchen Rinpoche: Compassion meditation -- Dungsey Thinley Norbu Rinpoche: Natural mind and the inner and outer five elements -- Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche: Ransoming and saving lives -- Penor Rinpooche [i.e....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Padma Publishing 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 294.3 SCABaldwin, James
Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019