Summary: A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 ITStanley, Diane
Summary: "A non-fiction look at how activists and artists throughout history have used peaceful protests to change the world for the better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.6 STAFolan, Lilias M.
Summary: Presents the "yin" yoga regimen, a specific progam desgned for individuals over the age of forty to stretch and strengthen the body within each yoga posture, while adding flexibility, energy, and joy in one's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 FOLGreene, Jessica R.
Summary: Focuses on issues and attitude that concern teenagers about eating behaviors. Shows the road signs that lead to full-blown eating disorders, and determines who is most susceptible to developing one. Explains the consequences of long-term malnutrition, food abuse, and obesity, and takes a look at the process of recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.8 GRESavage, Dan.
Summary: The sex-advice columnist for "Savage Love" draws on his experience with the It Gets Better campaign to share pithy insights into a range of topics including health care, gun control, and marriage equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAVAGE, DAN SAVRobertson, Nan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 ROBLustbader, Wendy.
Summary: Combines first-person stories from older people in all walks of life with the author's personal observations to look at the experience of aging, showing the later years to be a time of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth and happiness, rather than a period of decline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.67 LUSSmith, Jim.
Contents: Toolbox -- Your room -- Home theater or two-channel? -- Multichannel system (aka home theater) loudspeaker requirements -- Stereo system bass and subwoofers -- Thinking points -- Effects of rooms, room acoustics, and room treatments -- Working with your room-- a three-step speaker installation technique for satisfying results -- Additional speaker/room set-up tips -- Panel speakers -- Vinyl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarter Note Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3893 SMIRauch, Jonathan
Summary: Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Thomas Dunne Book, St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 RAUAkers, Paul A.
Summary: 2 Second Lean will flip your world right-side up. It's a practical way to improve your life every day by making a simple 2 second improvement. Join author, business expert, radio show host, and international speaker, Paul A. Akers, as he takes you on a LEAN journey that will transform every aspect your life... from your home to the office
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Publisher / Publication Date: FastCap Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.2 AKEHorowitz, Richard.
Summary: "When Dr. Richard Horowitz moved to the Hudson Valley over a decade ago to start his own medical practice, he didn't know that he would be jumping into the center of one of the fiercest, most heated medical disputes being waged today. The ongoing debate over Lyme disease as a chronic illness has made it difficult for sufferers to find care, as doctors are in many cases unable or unwilling to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9246 HORBrown, Carron
Summary: "This brand-new Shine-a-Light book follows a child recovering from a cold. Along the way, readers will learn how coughs and colds are spread, and how to protect ourselves and others from germs. The book also gently presents things that we can actively do to keep our bodies and minds healthy."--Amazon.ca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 BROJohnston, Lynn Franks
Summary: Lynn Johnston, "America's favorite cartoonist," brings her particular talent and hilarious insights to parents' No. 1 domestic problem-having a teenager! For many years, the Patterson family-John, Elly, Michael, Elizabeth, and dog Farley-has delighted readers. Now, every parent (and every teenager) will identify with the chaos that adolescent Michael's hormone attacks are bringing to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1990
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHRicker, Elizabeth R.
Summary: Distilling insights from dozens of interviews and hundreds of research studies from around the world, an MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher turned Silicon Valley technologist, introduces the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking to helptransform your cognition in just 15 minutes a day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 RICScotts, Jason.
Summary: Minecraft is a great game to play alone, but it gets even better if you do so with your friends. Whether you are on PvP (player versus player) mode where your goal is to be the last man or in this case, the last Steve standing, or you are just trying to create a "better" world compared to those made by your friends, it would be to your advantage if you take note of the tips mentioned below....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speedy Publishing Books 2013