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Child volunteers Children and the environment Children as inventors Criticism Golden retriever United States Human-animal relationships United States Iraq War, 2003-2011 Veterans United States Biography People with disabilities Services for United States Post-traumatic stress disorder Patients United States Biography TeachingSummary: While addiction may cause similar changes in the brains of different people, recovery is a very individual solution. Changing behavior is the aim of treatment, but no single treatment program will work for all addicts. This program visits the Ridgeview Institute near Atlanta to interview recovering addicts and sit in on a group therapy session. Mr. Moyers also visits Project SAFE, an innovative...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Welch, Edward T.
Summary: Overly concerned about what people think of you? Welch uncovers the spiritual dimension of people-pleasing and points the way through a true knowledge of God, ourselves, and others. - Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: P & R Pub. 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 WELSummary: This program focuses on three instructors singled out as "great teachers. One teacher's infectious enthusiasm, another's solid dedication, and a third's sense of humor foster self-esteem in even the most difficult students. This is an interesting study of three very different educational "styles" that produce the same positive educational results.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program follows three outstanding teachers throughout the school day to show how they motivate students. We see the classroom skills that help make them great teachers-charisma, concern, perseverance, and enthusiasm-and how they impart self-esteem to their students. These instructors teach Social Studies, English, and Special Education.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This documentary focuses on three teachers who have made a positive impact-academically or personally-on their students' lives. Selected as a result of an essay contest that asked students to write about the teacher who had most challenged and inspired them, the teachers are shown at work in the classroom, doing what they excel at: teaching and making a difference.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Hubbard, Ben
Contents: Introduction -- Elizabeth Fry -- Florence Nightingale -- Sarah G. Bagley -- Mother Jones -- Summary -- Other important figures -- Women in the industrial revolution : timeline -- Find out more -- Glossary -- Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist Wom HubbaSpilsbury, Louise
Summary: Children can get answers to questions like: what is global conflict? And how does it affect people in countries all over the world? Children will begin to understand the way others struggle with these issues and discover ways they can help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around SpilsburySpilsbury, Louise
Summary: In Racism and Intolerance, children can get answers to questions like: "What does it mean to be a racist--or intolerant?" and "How can I help?" Children will begin to understand the way others struggle with these issues and become empowered to make a difference.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around SpilsburySmithyman, Kathryn
Summary: This book introduces children to the traditional lifestyles of Native nations who lived in the western Great Lakes region, as well as the impact of colonization on Native peoples.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2003
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.04973 SmiCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.04 SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Native KalmanSklar, Matthew
Contents: Changing lives (3:10) -- Changing lives (reprise) (1:53) -- Just breathe (2:53) -- It's not about me (3:58) -- Dance with you (2:33) -- The acceptance song (3:21) -- You happened (3:11) -- We look to you (2:51) -- Tonight belongs to you (5:27) -- Tonight belongs to you (reprise) (0:43) -- Zazz (3:09) -- The lady's improving (2:38) -- Alyssa Greene (2:19) -- Love thy neighbor (4:29) -- Barry is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PROWalker, Niki
Summary: Introduces children to the daily life, customs, and culture of the Anishinabe people in the western Great Lakes region.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabree Pub. Co. 2003
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.004 WALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.004 WalThomas, Rachael L.
Summary: Readers learn about the #NeverAgain movement, from the history of the right to bear arms to later efforts at gun control, legislation such as the Brady handgun Violence Protection Act and the implementation of background checks, to the school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland and the creation of #neveragain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323 THOFaust, Drew Gilpin.
Contents: ch. 1. What shall we do?: women confront the crisis -- ch. 2. World of femininity: changed households and changing lives -- ch. 3. Enemies in our households: confederate women and slavery -- ch. 4. We must go to work, too -- ch. 5. We little knew: husbands and wives -- ch. 6. To be an old maid: single women, courtship, and desire -- ch. 7. Imaginary life: reading and writing -- ch. 8. Though...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7150 FAUUrban, Hal
Contents: Humility -- Patience -- Empathy -- Giving -- Forgiveness -- Thinking -- Possibilities -- Renewal -- Courage -- Excellence -- Mission -- Scripture -- Prayer -- Wisdom -- Joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.44 URBFeek, Rory Lee
Summary: Singer Joey Martin and her songwriter husband Rory Feek were enjoying a steadily growing fan base in country music and a baby daughter when Joey was diagnosed with a rapidly spreading cancer. Rory blogged about the final months of Joey's life. In this memoir, Rory takes us for the first time into his own challenging life story and what it was like growing up in rural America with little money...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEEK, RORY FEEDenby, David
Summary: "It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to ourstanding as a great nation--and a personal loss, too, for millions of teenagers who may turn into adults with limited understanding of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 DENMontalván, Luis Carlos
Summary: "Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalván takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national conversation about service dogs and PTSD. In this spectacular new memoir, he and Tuesday bring their healing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTALVAN, LUIS CARLOS MONHigginson, Sheila Sweeny
Summary: Have you ever wondered what you could do to change the world? Find out how kids are helping the environment, inventing incredible medical devices, aiding the homeless, designing apps so other kids won't ever have to eat alone in the cafeteria, and more! Learn all about what they've come up with and how their ideas are changing lives in this story of four amazing kids everyone should meet!...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED HIGSummary: Baseball survived the 'sixties, but the game's awkward evolution was far from over, and in a sense America's national pastime was now entering its most difficult period. This program looks at baseball during the 1970s and beyond, exploring the creation of the free agent system, a ballooning rise in player salaries, additional expansion of the Major Leagues, and ongoing conflicts between labor...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Shepherd, Sue
Summary: The low-FODMAP diet is changing lives. If you suffer from the pain and discomfort of a digestive condition such as IBS, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, or nonresponsive celiac disease, it just might change yours.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 SHESummary: After leaving her day job as Cat Grant's assistant at CatCo Worldwide Media to take stock of her life and plan her future, Kara Danvers continues to work with Hank Henshaw and her sister, Alex, at the Department of Extranormal Operations. There, she can be her true self -- Supergirl -- using her ever-increasing powers to protect National City while searching for her missing father, Jeremiah,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPScott, Cavan
Summary: The official miscellany, celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 SCOBarry, Dave.
Summary: A tropical storm hits a casino boat off the coast of Florida changing the lives of a quirky set of passengers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002