Lehrer, Jonah
Summary: Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites, Jonah Lehrer's A Book About Love plumbs the most mysterious, most formative, most important impulse governing our lives. Love confuses and compels us--and it can destroy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 LEHVan Lieshout, Maria.
Summary: Bloom, a pig who prefers flowers to mud puddles, falls in love with a "flying flower," but when the butterfly leaves she is brokenhearted until a friend gives her a reason to smile again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VanHenry, Theodore
Summary: Families can be big, small, silly, adventurous, loud, or messy, but they all have love in common. I Love Us! is all about the little ways families show they care: breakfasts made, play times shared, hurts soothed, and good times celebrated. This special book makes a wonderful gift for children and the people who love them on Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day--every day!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Bestselling author of VELVET ELVIS and the 2 million-plus selling Nooma videos, Rob Bell, reveals a secret deep in the heart of millions of Christians-they don't believe what they have been taught are the essential truths of their faith. Out of respect for their tradition, they keep quiet, confiding to a few close friends their doubts and questions about salvation, Jesus, and, of course, God....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 234 BELMuldrow, Diane.
Summary: This love-themed companion to the original "Everything I need to know I learned from a Little Golden Book," written by the editorial director at Golden Books, collects iconic, retro-style artwork from separate Golden Books works published from 1942 to 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation MuldrowForrest, Margot Silk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. M. Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177.7 FORCooper, Gwen
Summary: This is a story about grief, hope and healing. It's a story about the importance of memories, and of preserving a part of one's past. It is the story of a mother daughter relationship that shows that deep rifts can be mended even after death. But ultimately, this is a book about love, and how one small cat, through her mere presence, can change multiple lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOKing, Stephen
Summary: The book is a parable about love and imagination, that affirms love as the more salvific of the two.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINWyld, Evie.
Summary: The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WYLGutman, Dan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn't know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALBurrell, Kenny
Contents: Jump for joy -- Caravan -- Chelsea bridge -- Mood indigo -- Don't get around much anymore -- C jam blues -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) -- I didn't know about you -- My little brown book -- Carnegie blues -- Rocks in my bed -- Jeep's blues -- The creole love call -- Do nothin' till you hear from me -- Take the "A" train.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 0000
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Summary: If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge. If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him. When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a brave and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Miller, Natasha T.
Summary: "Butcher is a book about love & loss--about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor, Miller explores addiction, family & tragedy. Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5 parts: envisioning the cuts as relationship with family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 MILMcBeth, T. L.
Summary: A funny and charming picture book about Robot's efforts to win the heart of his shiny, beautiful, one true love (who just happens to be a toaster).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: In this wordless picture book, a little girl learns about love, nature, and the transformative power of letting go when a little fish leaps into her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALOKessler, JeffrAy N.
Summary: Colantha: A Beloved World Champion Cow is a historical children’s book about a real cow from Traverse City, Michigan. Throughout her life, Colantha provides the locals with love, excitement, and plenty of milk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mascot Books 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KESNoonan, Peggy
Summary: "This is a book about love." So begins Peggy Noonan's enormously moving collection of her post-September 11 Wall Street Journal commentaries. On the morning of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Noonan began writing, and produced at least one essay every week through September 11, 2002. These candid, compassionate and sometimes heart-wrenching pieces are full of insights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 NOOHiggins, Carter
Summary: A valentine is all about sweetness and gooey love, but this book is about all the things you might give someone that are not exactly gifts, but that show that you care for them and for what they think--but is not that a kind of love?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE HIGTalking Heads (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1. 1977-1979. New feeling -- A clean break -- Don't worry about the government -- Pulled up -- Psycho killer -- Who is it? -- The book I read -- The big country -- I'm not in love -- The girls want to be with the girls -- Electricity (drugs) -- Found a job -- Mind -- Artists only -- Stay hungry -- Air -- Love, building on fire -- Memories (can't wait) -- Heaven -- 1980-1981. Psycho killer...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino 2004
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Summary: "Darkmans is a very modern book, set in Ashford [a ridiculously modern town], about two very old-fashioned subjects: love and jealousy. It's also a book about invasion, obsession, displacement and possession, about comedy, art, prescription drugs and chiropody. And the main character? The past, which creeps up on the present and whispers something quite dark - quite unspeakable - into its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBayard, Pierre
Summary: Offers advice to people on how to talk about books they have not read, including books they have skimmed, heard about, or read and forgotten, analyzes situations in which people might find themselves talking about books they have not read, and includes recommendations on how to resolve such social dilemmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 BAYTarrant, Graham
Summary: "A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TARReed, Shannon
Summary: In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 028 REEHallinan, P. K.
Summary: This book expresses how God feels about and loves his children. Written in a love letter format to teach young children biblical truths of how God is always thinking about them and loves them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Ideals Children's Books, an imprint of Ideals Publications 2014