Lambda, Sophie
Summary: "Part memoir, part self-help book, So Much For Love offers hilarious and empathetic advice on how to survive a relationship with a master manipulator. Sophie had always been cynical about love--until she meets Marcus. His affection and doting praise melt away her defenses. The beginning of their relationship was a whirlwind romance, but over time she finds herself on uneven footing. Marcus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 LAMBurgess, Ann Wolbert
Summary: "A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3092 BURMonroe, Jana
Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MONLinehan, Marsha
Summary: Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINEHAN, MARSHA LINBarry, Susan R.
Contents: Stereoblind -- Mixed-up beginnings -- School crossings -- Knowing where to look -- Fixing my gaze -- The space between -- When two eyes see as one -- Nature and nurture -- Vision and revision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.7 BARBrown, Adrienne M.
Summary: "How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BROGristwood, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.05 GRIHutto, Joe
Summary: Recounts the author's efforts to raise sixteen wild turkey chicks in their natural environment while teaching them to forage and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.6 HUTWolf, Naomi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 WOLMezrich, Ben
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn't want you to read. Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time--Elon Musk--and the company that represents our culture's dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.872 MEZKirby, David
Summary: Explores the ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity through the story of marine biologist and animal advocate Naomi Rose, whose battle against SeaWorld reached a breaking point with the highly publicized 2010 death of trainer Dawn Brancheau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.53 KIRMillan, Cesar
Summary: Looks at the positive effects that having and training dogs has on their owners, and shares personal stories of how the dogs in his life have given him important lessons in respect, confidence, resilience, and authenticity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Summary: "Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECarroll, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.0099 CARDutcher, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 DUTFranscell, Ron
Summary: "The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody hadslit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 FRAMasson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff)
Summary: Masson draws from myth and literature, from scientific studies and from the stories of dog trainers and lovers around the world. But the stars of the book are Masson's own three dogs, whose delightful and mysterious behavior provides the way to explore emotions like gratitude, compassion, loneliness, and disappointment to speculating what dogs dream of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 MASO'Connell, Jennifer
Summary: "This nonfiction picture book tells the story of Lawrence Anthony and the deep bond he forged with the matriarch of the herd he saved at his animal reserve in South Africa. When Lawrence died, the matriarch led all the elephants from remote parts of the reserve in a procession to his home, where they gathered to mourn him. They returned on the same day at the same time for the next two years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022
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Summary: The author describes the vast hidden world she discovered after she observed deer as they fought through a rough winter, bred fawns in the spring, fended off predators and hunters, and made it to the next fall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.65 THOWhitelock, Anna.
Summary: An Elizabethan expert describes the court of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a vivid picture of the gossip, conspiracy, intrigue, and romantic dalliances that surrounded the monarch and the daily lives of the women that attended her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 WHIWoods, Vanessa
Summary: Traces how a Discovery Channel writer and her scientist fianc šettled in a Bonobo sanctuary in war-torn Congo, where their research enabled greater understanding of the characteristics and largely peaceful culture of the rare ape that shares 98.7 percent of human DNA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 WOOAli, Kazim
Summary: "An examination of the lingering effects of a hydroelectric power station on Pimicikamak sovereign territory in Manitoba, Canada"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, KAZIM ALIKnapp, Caroline.
Summary: Draws from the author's personal experiences as well as the insights of animal behaviorists, psychologists, and other dog owners, to explore the emotional bond between people and their canine companions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 KNALindsey, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2000