Summary: According to education statistics across North America, boys now perform poorly compared with girls-and with boys of previous generations. What is causing this trend? What can be done to help both genders succeed? This program presents insights from experts in child development-including Dr. William Pollack, Harvard clinical psychologist and author of Real Boys, and Jean-Claude St. Amant,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Gurian, Michael.
Summary: Shows parents and teachers how to help our boys overcome current classroom obstacles and failures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.823 GURLaufey
Contents: Fragile -- Beautiful stranger -- Above the Chinese restaurant -- Dear soulmate -- What love will do to you -- I've never been in love before -- Just like Chet -- Everything I know about love -- Falling behind -- Hi -- Dance with you tonight -- Night light.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Sax, Leonard
Summary: An acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development argues that kids today are suffering because their parents are no longer in charge—and explains what parents and educators can do to reverse this trend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 SAXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents SaxGreat Lake Swimmers (Musical group)
Contents: Song for the angels -- Let's trade skins -- When it flows -- Various stages -- Bodies and minds -- To leave it behind -- Falling into the sky -- Imaginary bars -- I saw you in the wild -- I could be nothing -- Long into the evening.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weewerk 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRETankersley, Jim
Summary: "The untold story of what once made America's economy great--and why it now keeps falling into crisis." -- inside front book jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.55 TANHuckabee, Mike
Summary: "In Mike Huckabee's new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, he asks the question, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times; their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 HUCAhmad, Ilyas
Contents: Golden universe -- Under the singing sea -- Behind our eyes -- Phantom sky -- Moon falling -- Unveiled nightmare -- Return to ours -- Light grows thin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Lag 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AHMSummary: Sebastian Cole is a restless seventeen-year-old living in a small town and falling behind in school. But his greatest challenge begins when his step-dad announces he is going to become a woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADVSummary: Why has extremism been on the rise in Muslim-majority countries over the course of the last few decades? In this powerful TEDTalk, Maajid Mawaz, a former Islamist extremist, shares his ideas about the role of social movements in creating change in North Africa and the Middle East. Mawaz outlines four reasons why he believe those who aspire to a democratic culture are falling behind. Nawaz is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Fit for a King (Musical group)
Contents: The hell we create -- End (the other side) -- Falling through the sky -- Sink below -- Reaper -- Times like this -- Eyes roll back -- Fracture -- Reaching out -- What you left behind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FITCannell, Michael
Summary: "The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a legendary moment in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careersand lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 CANBrill, Steven
Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BRIDawson, Mike
Summary: "Just when Lori starts to get comfortable, things change again. Lori's friends have found new interests. Her dad goes back to work for the first time since she was born. And when her mom decides to start coaching in the new after-school basketball league, Lor''s home life collides with her passion. To make matters worse, all her friends are playing for the opposing team. Lori feels frustrated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DAWFox, Brad, (Bradley)
Summary: "A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.4609 FOXWomack, Lee Ann.
Contents: Never again, again (3:44) -- You've got to talk to me (3:38) -- The Fool (3:32) -- A Little past Little Rock (3:44) -- (Now you see me) Now you don't (2:39) -- I'll think of a reason later (3:37) -- I hope you dance (4:54) -- Ashes by now (4:11) -- Why they call it falling (3:35) -- Something worth leaving behind (3:48) -- Mendocino County line (with Willie Nelson) (4:32) -- Does my ring burn...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WomacSvensson, Esbjörn.
Contents: Behind the stars (3:44) -- Inner city, city lights (11:48) -- The left lane (13:37) -- Huston, the 5th (3:34) -- Three falling free : part 1 (5:49) -- Three falling free : part II (14:30) -- The childhood dream (8:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ACT Music + Vision 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ESBRonstadt, Linda.
Contents: Loving the highway man (3:30) -- Raise the dead (3:18) -- For a dancer (4:43) -- Western wall (2:35) -- 1917 (5:24) -- He was mine (3:19) -- Sweet spot (3:34) -- Sisters of mercy (3:58) -- Falling down (3:15) -- Valerie (4:04) -- This is to mother you (3:16) -- All I left behind (3:23) -- Across the border (6:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Asylum 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RONBorghi, Matt
Contents: Quiet stillness rests on the Algiers Motel -- Watching the Hudson's building fall -- Friendly glass divider -- Looking up Gtand River, from here all points north -- Moon descendind behind the Madison -Lenox Hotel -- Keep the lake Francis light burning for me -- Snow falling on MacArthur Bridge -- Red sky morning -- North Manitou Island Shoal
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Slo.bor
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BORBates, Ivan
Summary: This exuberant read-aloud stars a very clever duckling named Puck who, falling farther and farther behind Mama Duck and his siblings as they swim to the lily pond, comes up with a sneaky solution to get ahead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Zuckerman, Gregory.
Summary: A superbly written, behind-the-scenes narrative of how hedge fund manager John Paulson foresaw the escalating financial crisis and turned a falling housing market into financial history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009