Pipher, Mary Bray

Summary: "From the bestselling author of 'Women Rowing North' and 'Reviving Ophelia,' a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she looks inward in 'A Life in Light' to what shaped her as a woman,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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Pipher, Mary Bray.

Summary: Offers the tales of refugees who have escaped countries riddled by conflict and ripped apart by war to realize their dream of starting a new life in America, detailing their triumph over adversity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9069 PIP

Pipher, Mary Bray

Summary: Describes the psychological pitfalls faced by teenage girls growing up in a dangerous world in which violence, sexual harassment, eating disorders, promiscuity, and drug use have become the norm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 PIP

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.235 PIP

Pipher, Mary Bray

Summary: "Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 PIP

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 PIP

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Asher, Jay

Summary: An intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect YA listeners. Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker-his classmate and crush-who recently committed suicide. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library, Inc. 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ASH

Morris, May

Summary: May Morris, youngest daughter of influential designer William Morris, was one of the leading female contributors to the Arts and Crafts Movement. She ran the embroidery department of her father's famous firm Morris & Co., and had a successful freelance career as a designer, maker, and exhibitor, founding the Women's Guild of Arts in 1907 and undertaking a lecture tour in the United States...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MORRIS

Summary: "In Eye of my heart, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode myths and stereotypes and tell the whole crazy, complicated truth about being a grandmother in today's world"--Book jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 EYE

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 306.874 GRA

Summary: In one tale Terry McGinnis hunts a murderer throughout the streets of Neo-Gotham. In another magical adventure, Zatanna and Batman come together every year the two to defeat an evil curse. This year they fail, and the world is in peril because of it. And that's just the beginning of the twists and turns collected in Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 4! --Amazon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BAT

Summary: They are the voices behind the greatest rock, pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now, in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, and more. Includes behind-the-scenes footage, vintage live performances, and interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWE

De Roy, Tui.

Summary: One of the world's great wildlife photographer and a writer set out in a sailboat to document the lives of albatrosses. This book features the best writing and research available on these endangered birds as well as an incredible portfolio of images.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598.42 DER

Hay, Roy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ebury P.; Joseph 1969

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 635.903 HAY

Cline, Foster.

Summary: Explains how to parent teenagers not by punishing but by helping them understand real-world consequences for actions, focusing on preparing them for life on their own; provides practical guidance and sample conversations for specific situations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñon Press 2006

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Fiszer, Louise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1995

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Bisher, Patrick

Summary: Patrick Bisher’s career as a Navy SEAL should have ended after a parachuting accident nearly crippled him. But overcoming adversity, even an injury as serious as a broken hip, was nothing new for him. He’d spent a portion of his childhood in leg braces. Doctors told him he’d never walk again thanks to a degenerative hip condition. He wasn’t about to give up then, any more than he was in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 BIS

Cline, Foster.

Summary: If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control -- without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pio Press 2006

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.64 CLI

Brown, William Macenery, 

Summary: Also includes portrait of the author (b&w, 25 x 33 cm.).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Bale, Sons, & Danielsson, LTD 1932

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 971.3 BRO

Cline, Foster

Summary: Who uses love and logic in their parenting? Parents, counselors, and teachers around the globe--even Bill and Melinda Gates have found the philosophy of Parenting with Love and Logic an important guide when raising their three children. Learn how to reel in your own emotions while teaching your children responsibility, establishing boundaries, and growing their character. Establish healthy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Summary: Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men? As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare--one from which she may never escape.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 0000

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Bradshaw, Thelma Finster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crane Hill 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINSTER, HOWARD Bradshaw

Fleisher, Julian.

Summary: This two disc collection from The Princeton Review helps listeners get a handle on the pesky complexities of grammar through usage examples, question reviews, and basic grammar principles.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Living Language 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 428.3 FLE

Godfrey, Father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palphot Ltd. 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 Godfr

Kisner, Jordan

Summary: When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, “just naturally reverent,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KIS

Olsher, Dean.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.732 OLS

Ussher, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Master Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld Ussher