Pettiford, Rebecca
Summary: "Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing dams while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 627.8 PETSummary: Changing the course of rivers has changed the course of history. Award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay goes to extremes to bring you an unprecedented look at the power of dams. From the banks of the Nile to the top of the Hoover Dam, you'll meet the courageous and ambitious builders, relive the deadly disasters, and discover the little-known personal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBS Boston Video 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DAMBowman, Chris
Summary: Dams are not just built to stop water. They can also change the direction it flows! Beginning readers will delve into this title that explains the kinds of dams, how forces act on them, and the benefits of certain materials in dam construction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: This colorful little book is a celebration of how great it is to be different, and how differences make us special--whether they're in babies, birthdays, cats, dads, dogs, families, or anything else"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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Contents: Dada -- Enough's enough -- Former Lee Warmer -- No man's land -- Dyslexia -- Scarlet and Sheba -- I love America -- Fresh blood -- Pass the gun around.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COOSummary: Richard Alpert, after being expelled from Harvard in 1963 for experimenting with LSD, morphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. This film visits Ram Dass in 2001 as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. Balances fascinating, often hilarious footage from the hippie era with contemporary material and interviews with Ram Dass and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAMKendall, Joshua C.
Contents: Prologue: the sense and sensibility of James Garfield: "It is a most intense and innocent passion" -- The preoccupied: "I should like to have your opinion on it" -- Playful pals: "My father likes snakes" -- Double-dealing dads: "You know such things happen on plantations" -- Tiger dads: "I could feel nothing but sorrow and shame in your presence" -- The grief-stricken: "I always see my boy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 KENHarrington, Claudia
Summary: Lenny follows Jasmine for a school project and learns about her life with her two dads.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARBrockington, Ryan
Summary: "A little girl explains how families, including hers, come in many shapes and sizes--some with a mom and a dad, some with two dads, some with two moms, and more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROMolesso, Ashley
Summary: Illustrations and simple text demonstrate that words can be neutral and not tied to a specific gender.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2023
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MOLMcCreight, Kimberly.
Summary: Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MCCRosswood, Eric
Summary: "Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, The Chicago Tribune reported that 10 to 20 percent of donor eggs went to gay men expanding their families via surrogacy, and in many...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2017
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Summary: "Most men will agree that the arrival of a baby -- whether the first or fifth -- can be panic inducing. Parenting expert Joe Kelly uses his years as a dad and granddad to help any father-to-be get through the uncertainty and life-changing experiences. Dads-to-be will understand what their partners are going through and what they should (and should not) do to help. Essential content also...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2014
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Summary: In this super fun book, Todd Davis, star of HGTV's "Design Star", offers up 25 awesome projects for dads to build with their kids. Skate ramps, zip lines, go-carts, and more!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 DavisHolub, Joan
Summary: Told in simple rhyming text, hard-working construction vehicle fathers guide and encourage their children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE HOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLParker, Marjorie Blain.
Summary: Extols the virtues of dads who still read comics and watch cartoons, understand that clothes do not have to match and that pancakes need not be round, and do not mind getting their hair wet--if they have any.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARSummary: This video illustrates how to lay out, cut, and hide dado joints. Rabbet-and-dado joints are also covered, and cutting dadoes with power tools is demonstrated.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Morlock, Rachael
Summary: "Each family is unique. Some families have a mom and a dad. Some have only one parent. Others have two dads. Families with two dads aren't so different from those with a mom and a dad. Family members go to work, cook meals, and do yard work and other chores as well as fun things together. In this title, the similarities between traditional families and families with two dads are highlighted,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: J Families MorlockSummary: They take hundreds of years to biodegrade and have sparked heated debate around the world. This documentary examines the controversy over plastic bags, from their often devastating environmental impact to their remarkable ubiquity in consumer culture. Outlining the bag's connection to Big Oil, the film presents environmental case studies in Mumbai, where clogged flood drains have sparked...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Pass, Erica
Summary: When SpongeBob enters into a contest at Mussel Beach with his father, he forgets the most important thing about the event.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPODavidson, Brad
Summary: When Bear feels low, like his pocket is full of sads that are weighing him down, Rabbit becomes determined to find the cure but discovers there's no easy fix--except, maybe, friendship, in this uniquely humorous approach to sadness that encourages mindfulness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids 2023
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Summary: A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.8 HAKCarpenter, Shannon
Summary: "A practical guide for modern-day parenting geared towards stay-at-home dads, offering advice on everything from learning to cook and clean with children, to dealing with mental health and relationships, with the easygoing perspective that dads can use their natural talents to parent any way that they choose to. The Ultimate Stay-At-Home Dad manual takes the best advice and wisdom from a dads...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Life 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 CARSummary: What starts as a missions trip for Eugene and Katrina ends up being a hair-raising jungle adventure tracking a dad presumed dead--but very much alive!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2006