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Summary: After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2015
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Summary: Presents a collection of messy and embarrassing aspects of early childhood with images of young tots eating, sleeping, and trying first experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 818 BENFlake, Emily
Summary: "From New Yorker humorist Emily Flake, a hilarious, oddly enlightening book of illustrations, observations, and wise advice that embraces the inescapable awkwardness of two human beings attempting to make physical contact with each other."-- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.6 FLANatterson, Cara
Summary: "Almost everything about puberty has changed since today's adults went through it. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school... and for some, beyond. Gens Z and Alpha are also contending with a whole host of thorny issues that parents didn't experience in their own youth but nonetheless need to understand: everything from social media and easy-access pornography...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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Summary: "Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America's Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering "Who is that dude?" on national TV....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PETRI PETGulman, Gary
Summary: "A tour-de-force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond from the beloved stand-up comic and creator of The Great Depresh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GULMAN, GARY GULHarper, Charise Mericle
Summary: In this informative graphic narrative for ages 8-12, bestselling middle grade cartoonist Charise Mericle Harper dives deep into that everyday source of stress and humor for kids--embarrassment. With science facts, jokes, and compassion (and some slapstick) this book lets kids know they aren't alone and puts them at ease, with practical information and fun facts that all add up to we've all been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2020
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Summary: Middle school friendships can be a source of great joy one day, then pain and anxiety the next. Friends and Frenemies examines the complexities of friendship and helps readers start building communication tools that will last a lifetime. The book tackles big questions such as: "How can I make friends?" and "What if I feel like I need to end a friendship?" Friends and Frenemies includes not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 302 CASLea, Bronwyn
Summary: "It doesn't have to be this weird. When it comes to relationships between men and women, we have more questions than answers: How do we keep relationships with the opposite sex healthy--and still hug each other after small group? Is it possible for married men and women to be friends with people of the opposite sex? What does it mean to be a woman if you're not a wife, or a man if you're not a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 LEAPinsky, Drew
Summary: Dr. Drew has spent decades talking to teens and young adults about sex and relationships, so he and his daughter take on a new generation of knowledge that incorporates current concerns with TCB: trust, compassion, and boundaries. Quizzes, real questions from patients, and life-experience from Paulina help the team tackle some of the toughest stuff to talk about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.7 PINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.7 PINBell, W. Kamau
Summary: "You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in the New York Times, which called him "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell's gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, W. KAMAU BELNuchi, Adah
Summary: This girl-powered book about puberty is written in the voice of counselors in training at the fictional Camp Silver Moon. This fictionalized nonfiction diary-style guide follows nine 12-year-old girls at a summer camp is like having a best friend or older sister who shares everything there is to know about being comfortable in your chasing body so you can survive and thrive through puberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 612.6 NUCTosi, Christina
Summary: "Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. It marks big and small milestones and creates memories of comfort and joy. And Christina Tosi, the founder and CEO of Milk Bar, believes it can save the world. Does the combination of sugar, flour, and butter have some magical ability to fix all the craziness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 TOSNoah, Trevor
Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016
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Summary: On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union's Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army and annexing the former Russian territory by the end of the year. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days, until March 15, 1940, when a peace agreement ended the short, savage Winter War. At the stirring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2009
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Summary: "A book about lawbreaking federal judges, the secret disciplinary system that protects them, and brave women who blew the whistle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 OLSMacdonald, Fiona
Summary: Illustrations and text introduce early readers to the the training, duties, and lifestyle of a samurai; and also describes the culture and traditions of ancient Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 MADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952.02 MACFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDCargill, Oscar
Contents: The drive to distinction. Watch and ward ; Roderick Hudson ; The American ; The Europeans ; Confidence ; The Portrait of a lady -- The Gallic issue. The Bostonians ; The Princess Casamassima ; The Reverberator ; The Tragic muse -- The Augean stable. The Other house ; The Spoils of Poynton ; What Maisie knew ; The Awkward age ; The Sacred fount -- The major phase....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1961
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARWall, Carol
Summary: Describes how a period of transition in the journalist author's life marked by her empty nest, a recent illness and her aging parents led her to forge a deep friendship with a gifted Kenyan gardener with whom she transformed her yard and shared long-buried secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 WALLim, Dion
Summary: If the workplace is a battlefield for women, this is the playbook they need. Women face unique circumstances on their road to success, no matter age or experience, what their goals are, or industry. Make Your Moment addresses a wide range of career and workplace scenarios and "microinteractions" you must master if you care about succeeding in business. This book covers crucial career skills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGrawHill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.101 LIMStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STUBarr, John
Summary: "From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 BARMcCreary, Michael
Summary: "Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019