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Summary: Combining the principles of psychotherapy with the teachings of Buddhism, this guide explains how to eliminate the personal conflicts and feelings of not being good enough that can cause such problems as addiction, overwork, and perfectionism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Baca 1983
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3 BACGreenberg, Mark
Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREBrash, Celeste
Summary: A guide to visiting Tahiti and French Polynesia, discussing the history, culture, and environment of the islands, featuring suggested itineraries, describing the highlights of various cities and regions, offering information on beaches and lagoons, and including maps and listings of places to eat and stay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL TAHITITada, Kimie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 729.0952 TADBracy, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.95 BRABreach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRELeigh, Tera
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 LEIBrash, Celeste
Summary: Lonely Planet's Tahiti and French Polynesia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Swim in the sparklingly clear waters, hike to waterfalls, dive into coral wonderlands, then sip cocktails by the beach; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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Summary: "Acclaimed author Taras Grescoe introduces readers to the surprising and forgotten flavors whose revival is captivating food-lovers around the world: ancient sourdough bread last baked by Egyptian pharaohs; raw-milk farmhouse cheese from critically endangered British dairy cattle; ham from Spanish pata negra pigs that have been foraging on acorns on a secluded island since before the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2023
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Summary: In this book the author rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Aiming not just to provide information but to make people think, it explores how science has become so powerful by describing the financial interests and imperial ambitions behind its success. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 FARGrescoe, Taras.
Summary: "Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering--a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.4 GRELeigh, Tera
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.7 LeighHaelle, Tara
Summary: The Earth rotates on its axis, causing day and night, and revolves around the Sun, causing changes in season and weather occurrences
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508.2 HAEKuczykowski, Tara.
Summary: The two lifestyle experts behind the websites "Deal Seeking Mom" and "Life Your Way" offer tips on saving money through proper timing, explaining the best times to get a haircut, fill the gas tank, and take a family vacation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 KUCBranch, Taylor.
Summary: This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BRABranch, John
Summary: The "death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports. Now, in a ... work of narrative nonfiction, ... reporter John Branch tells the ... story of Boogaard's life and heartbreaking death"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.96 BRAHorn, Dara
Summary: "A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "America's unique presidential election system is often misunderstood--and perhaps especially hard to explain to children. We Elect a President: The Story of Our Electoral College will help you and your family discover more about the Electoral College and its remarkable history. Why was it created in the fiorst place? Does it still work today? Written in straightforward language and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Colonial Press, L.P. 2016
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Summary: Blends historical perspectives with cutting-edge research to examine body fat as a critical endocrine organ that can be better understood and managed when recognized as a necessary component of human health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Contents: My healing journey -- The real cause of multiple sclerosis -- You can heal yourself : the solutions -- Your treatment plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quintessential Healing Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med BorochBeachy, Robert.
Summary: In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 BEARauch, 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 RAUBranch, Taylor.
Summary: Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1988