Styron, Alexandra
Summary: Styron's stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by young people who want to make sure everybody gets an equal piece of the American pie, and who know that the future of the planet is now. She dives into several key issues: climate change, racial justice, women's rights, LGBTQIA rights, immigration, religious understanding, and intersectionality. Each chapter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 STYSummary: Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral prodigy to racial justice firebrand to elder media statesman, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been a polarizing figure on the national stage. It is the definitive look at his life and legacy, featuring President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOUAlexander, Aaron
Summary: "Celebrity manual therapist and movement coach Aaron Alexander shows readers how posture and body alignment are powerful tools for building strength, achieving peak performance, reducing pain, and approaching the world with a new sense of confidence."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ALESummary: A personal look at the extraordinary life, career, and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, it is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MCQSiamon, Sharon.
Summary: Text and photographs describe paleontologists and their fossil discoveries in Canada's Red Deer River Valley, also known as Dinosaur Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Pub. 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SIAMiller, Shannon (Shannon McClintock)
Summary: "When you have a problem, where can you go for answers? The library! When Eliza and her friends join Ms. Gillian, the Specialist, on another Adventure in Makerspace, they find themselves in ancient Scythia. Can they help Alexander the Great win the Battle of Jaxartes in 329 BCE? Join them to complete Mission: Low Tech! This graphic novel includes fun bonus features such as a theme song and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILDragoon, Leigh
Summary: "Extraordinary things just don't happen to fourteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil, a talented weaver who dreams about life outside of her tiny village. But that all changes when a mysterious young wizard named Wayland North appears and asks for Sydelle's help. He's got a shocking secret that could stop a war between kingdoms-if he can reach the capital with the news in time. North needs a navigator...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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Summary: In the early morning hours of July 11, 1804, two men stood facing each other on a New Jersey cliff side. One was the U.S. vice president, Aaron Burr, and the other was Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of the treasury. They were ready to fight to the death for honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 FRASummary: A battle of naked ambition played out on the national and, ultimately, world stage, this film chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships as legions of aspiring rock stars compete to become the greatest air guitarist in the world. Samurai warrior C. Diddy emerges as an early favorite, but Björn Türoque is not far behind. Will Björn's technical prowess, attitude, and "airness" be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AIR
Sharot, Tali
Summary: "We all have a duty to affect others--from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instincts--from relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert control--are ineffective, because they are incompatible with how peoples minds operate. Sharot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 SHAApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "A poignant, heartbreaking new work by "one of the best novelists alive" (Irving Howe)--the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment advisor, he lives alone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPBackus, Sharron.
Summary: Explains the rules and fundamental skills of softball, shows how players can improve their skills, and discusses team and individual strategies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1979
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 NEWSharot, Tali
Summary: A neuroscience professor and a Harvard law professor team up in this groundbreaking work, based on decades of research in the psychological and biological sciences, that shows how disrupting our routines can lead to seeing, feeling and noticing again--and embracing much-needed change to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers, Atria 2024
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Summary: In a dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SHEAlexandre, Frédérique
Summary: "At last, a baby knits collection specifically designed to make pattern instructions as easy as can be! Take your pick of 34 designs for a baby's wardrobe that couldn't be simpler. With even the most complicated pattern instructions, finishing techniques, and sizing changes laid out using Marie Claire's straightforward, easy-to-understand method, knitters of all levels of experience can create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 ALEAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADALuttrell, Sharron Kahn.
Summary: Having lost her longtime pet dog, Massachusetts journalist Luttrell volunteers to help train service dogs on the weekends; the rest of the week, the animals are taught by inmates as part of the Prison PUP program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 LUTAttkisson, Sharyl
Summary: "The five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled and The Smear uncovers how partisan bias and gullibility are destroying American journalism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 ATTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult AttkissonCharen, Mona
Summary: Author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 CHAGoldman, Shalom.
Summary: Introduces the great myths of the ancient Near East, the region bound by Egypt and the Mediterranean in the west, Iran in the east, Anatolia in the north, and the Arabian peninsula in the south.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.3 GOL PT 2 OF 2Moghul, Haroon
Summary: "With autobiography, theology, and a little comedy, Two Billion Caliphs describes what Islam is, where it comes from, and what it could be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.092 MOGShapton, Leanne.
Summary: A collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreation swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Shapton contemplates the sport that has shaped her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPTON, LEANNE SHASharoff, Robert.
Summary: "In the 1910s and 1920s there was more steel going up in Detroit than anywhere outside of New York and Chicago. The result was the country's first high-tech metropolis, a city of lavish monuments and glittering skyscrapers." "The list of major architects who designed buildings for Detroit includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Stanford White, Daniel Burnham, Cass Gilbert, Albert Kahn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005