Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMContents: Elegantly simple ideas for healthy eating -- A new philosophy of cooking -- How to use this book -- Vegetables & fruits -- Carbohydrates -- Protein & dairy fats -- Are you eating well? -- How to plan a menu -- Vegetables -- Fruits -- Salads -- Soups -- Pasta & grains -- Beans & Legumes -- Fish & Shellfish -- Poultry & meat -- Desserts & drinks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 NEWSummary: "Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALSummary: "True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 WEIForbes, Grania.
Summary: On 4 August 1999, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday! The Queen Mother's life thus tells in its own distinctive way the story of the twentieth century, and as the years pass, she is increasingly venerated as 'a beloved national institution.' Forbes, a British journalist specializing in the royal family, offers a pictorial biography that, as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 ELIForbes, Nancy
Summary: Two veteran science writers with special expertise in physics and engineering tell the story of how two brilliant 19th-century scientists, separated in age by 40 years, discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field, giving rise to many of the technological innovations we have today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 537 FORForbes, Steve
Contents: The Persian Empire : cultural diversity, self-determination, and the art of making money -- Cyrus the Great : lessons in tolerance and inclusion -- Classical Greece : do thinkers make good leaders? -- Xenophon : building consensus and finding direction -- Alexander the Great : the price of arrogance -- Carthage: a business man's paradise -- Hannibal of Carthage : innovation -- The Roman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FORForbes, Rob.
Summary: This accessible handbook from design guru Rob Forbes uncovers the beauty in the commonplace and reveals how visual thinking can enrich our lives. In friendly text complemented by photographs taken on his travels around the world, Forbes explains how to appreciate the design elements that surround us in the built environment. Linking broad concepts such as composition and materiality to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 715 FORForbes, Esther.
Summary: After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORForbes, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 600 FORFornes, Mike.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, the longest suspension bridge in the United States, from the struggles to support its creation to its resilience to hits by man-made structures and Mother Nature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Publishing 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 FORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 FOR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 FOR
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Straits FornesCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 977 FORFornes, Mike.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cheboygan Tribune Printing Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 FORForbes, Lisa
Summary: "Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness -- including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison -- and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny. The youngest of six children,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press/Truth to Power Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORBES, LISA FORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FORBES FORForbes, Suzi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.4 FORMayr, Ernst
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 MAYRamesh, Jaya
Summary: What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 RAMKyle, Taya
Summary: Presents an inspiring collection of stories of Americans who have persevered over adversity and built extraordinary lives after loss, hardship, and setbacks, showcasing the resilience of the American spirit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 KYLMarya, Rupa
Summary: "Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 MARMays, Willie
Summary: "In Willie's own words and those of others whose lives he has touched -- including Hall of Famers, Negro Leaguers, teammates, opponents, managers, commissioners, childhood friends, celebrities, and three U.S. presidents -- this revealing book emphasizes his unique and lasting place in American history, culture, and public life. Willie Mays is an American icon, treasure, and hero. For the first...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 MAYS, WILLIE MAYSäfström, Maja
Summary: Shares illustrations of animals that once roamed the Earth, including the coryphodon, megalodon, and macrauchenia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 SAFWhite, David Fairbank
Summary: "The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WHIKyle, Taya
Summary: The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KYLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KYLE, TAYA KYLMayr, Helmut.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 MAYMusk, Maye
Summary: "The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously--carefully." Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamourous--she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Life 2019