Bruni, Frank.
Summary: Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. That belief is wrong. It's cruel. And in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 378.1 BRUStyrke, Tove
Summary: Tove Styrke releases her third album 'Sway!' The album consists of 7 original tracks, plus a cover of Lorde's track "Liability" from her recent #1 ARIA Album "Melodrama."
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Australia 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STYKallen, Stuart A.
Summary: "The student-led March For Our Lives movement, formed in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, captured widespread attention in 2018. The raw emotion and eloquence of these student activists have made a strong impression on the nation and the world. Many other students in cities and towns all across the country have taken on other causes. Whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 303 KALWillingham, Daniel T.
Contents: Why don't students like school? -- How can I teach students the skills they need when standardized tests require only facts? -- Why do students remember everything that's on television and forget everything I say? -- Why is it so hard for students to understand abstract ideas? -- Is drilling worth it? -- What's the secret to getting students to think like real scientists, mathematicians, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.1523 WILPekar, Harvey.
Contents: SDS highlights / by Harvey Pekar ; art by Gary Dumm -- White boy narrative / by Mark Naison ; art by Gary Dumm -- My life in SDS / by Penelope Rosemont ; art by Gary Dumm -- "Fill-in" LeBlanc / by Paul LeBlanc and Paul Buhle ; art by Gary Dumm -- It's a long way to Hazard / story and art by Nick Thorkelson -- Cleveland ERAP project / by Alan Wald and Harvey Pekar ; art by Gary Dumm -- Join...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.198 PEKSummary: A former award-winning middle school science teacher provides tips on study skills for high school students to improve their academic achievement. Parent participation is also discussed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.4 HOWOrcutt, Bill
Contents: Lip rich (4:46) -- Sad news from Korea (L. Hopkins) (2:50) -- Pocket underground (1:40) -- Too late to fly (6:49) -- My reckless parts (3:34) -- Street peaches (2:11) -- A new way to pay old debts (6:11) -- Cold ground (4:36) -- High waisted (3:23) -- Big ass nails (3:07) -- All the creatures of the ocean are alive (2:42) -- More salt (3:29) -- Chicken wing (4:22) -- Poor black math (1:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Editions Mego 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ORCWilkins, Kaya
Contents: Mood into object personified -- Jolene from her own perspective -- Origin story -- Jazzercise -- Pathologically yours -- Spinal tap -- Inside of a plum -- Rorschach -- In regards to your tweet -- Dep. chamber -- Pearl gurl -- The lesson -- I've spent forever planning a crisis -- Like a liver -- Weltschmerz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OKAA Smith
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Lynn Music Corp. 1954
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMKnight, Sarah
Summary: This "parody of Marie Kondo's bestseller The life-changing magic of tidying up, explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt--and give your f*cks instead to the people and things that make you happy."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 KNISummary: An essential reference for funders, researchers, policymakers, reporters, fundraisers, and anyone with a stake in grantmaking. Informed by exclusive research and expert analysis, the reports are the definitive source for knowledge on U.S. foundations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foundation Center 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 361.7025 FOUDoerrfeld, Cori
Summary: Cooper is excited to help his grandmother by delivering honey at the annual Great Giving Festival, but one jar after another is ruined when he takes time to help his friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Tucker, K. A. (Kathleen A.)
Summary: Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she's a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she's considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she's stuck seeing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCCameron, Julia
Summary: "The first new Artist's Way tool in more than 30 years from "the Queen of Change" (New York Times) author Julia Cameron. In the thirty years following the publication of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron relied on an essential tool to help her through every juncture in life: writing for guidance. Now, in Living the Artist's Way, Cameron finally shares this method with the world as the fourth main...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 CAMHeinzel, Kenneth A.
Summary: College students and recent grads: Want to nail the interview and get the job of your dreams? Read on. What you will learn in Private Notes of a Headhunter is as important as any course you've taken or will ever take: insider tips, tools and techniques tailored expressly to your needs ... information that will help give you an edge in one of the most challenging job search environments in many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pythian House Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 HEITheory of a Deadman (Musical group)
Contents: Black hole in your heart -- History of violence -- Affluenza -- Say nothing -- Strangers -- Ted Bundy -- World keeps spinning -- Quicksand -- White boy -- It's all good.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THESummary: Staging a successful play takes time, energy, and wisely used resources-whether the production is on Broadway or at a high school. This program shows how to select an appropriate script for a student theater group and produce the play in an organized, efficient manner. Viewers receive information on casting, planning and conducting rehearsals, and how to utilize the strengths and limitations of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Manson, Mark
Summary: "In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frequent and regular assessment of student progress is an effective method for driving schools towards equity and academic excellence. This program focuses on how student assessment data can be used to evaluate and improve instructional priorities and strategies, to communicate high expectations, and to involve parents and the community in a school's efforts.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Niequist, Shauna
Summary: A collection of essays that focuses on the most important transformation in Niequist's life: leaving behind busyness and frantic living and rediscovering the person you were made to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 NIEWinters, John J.
Summary: With more than 55 plays to his credit, including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, Sam Shepard’s impact on American theater ranks with the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. Critics have enthused that he “forged a whole new kind of American play,” while younger playwrights venerate him – Suzan Lori Parks, herself a Pulitzer winner, calls Shepard her “gorgeous north...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHEPARD, SAM SHEReblitz, Arthur A.
Summary: For over forty years, Arthur A. Reblitz’s Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding has been the gold-standard manual for piano technicians and hands-on hobbyists who want to rebuild or maintain pianos. Reblitz demystifies the daunting prospect of working on a piano as he guides readers through every detail of upright and grand piano mechanics and describes servicing and repairs with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.2 REBAdelman, Melissa A.
Summary: "Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses... When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law firm, Alexis is pregnant with their second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADETurabian, Kate L.
Summary: When Kate Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 TUR1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.06 TUR