Evans, Keisha
Summary: "A timely new resource to help kids understand and resolve conflicts stemming from issues of consent. Consent isn't just about sex. From an early age, kids are taught to respect personal space. They learn to express themselves about how they feel. As much as they need to be taught that kissing, hugging and touching are sometimes appropriate and sometimes not, it is important that they consider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 176 EVASummary: "Follows James Carville, Jeremy Rosner and a team of political consultants as they launch a media-savvy campaign for Bolivian presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. With unprecedented access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, witness a shocking example of America 'spreading democracy' overseas and its earth-shattering aftermath"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OURDeary, Terry
Summary: "Want to know: Why the vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking? Which Viking god dressed up as a woman? A genuine jester's joke? Why medieval chickens had their bottoms shaved? Discover all the facts about the Vicious Vikings and Measly Middle Ages--double the gore and more"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 DEASummary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUIBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALVNielsen, Jerri.
Summary: A physician stranded at the South Pole describes how she discovered a lump in her breast, treated herself with a biopsy and chemotherapy, and was rescued by the Air National Guard, and reflects on her experiences and her colleagues. The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes or boats and the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIELSEN, JERRI NIEGonzalez, Elisa
Summary: Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GONGonzalez, Elaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.853 GONGonzalez, Philip
Summary: Philip Gonzalez had lost all interest in living after an industrial accident left him disabled. A friend suggested he adopt a dog. Reluctantly he went to the shelter, where Ginny, a badly abused one-year-old pup, quickly won him over. Philip realized immediately that Ginny was no ordinary dog--she had a sixth sense that enabled her to find and rescue stray and ailing cats. There's Madame, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GONFarris, Jerri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Pub. International 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FARFarris, Jerri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Pub. International 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 FARFarris, Jerri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Pub. International 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 CompleteFarris, Jerri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Publishing International 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 FARGonzales, Debbie
Summary: "A celebration of the strength, endurance, and athleticism of women and girls throughout the ages, Girls With Guts! keeps score with examples of women athletes from the late 1800s up through the 1970s, sharing how women refused to take no for an answer, and how finally, they pushed for a law to protect their right to play, compete, and be athletes."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.082 GONNielsen, Jerri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NielsGonzález, Rigoberto
Summary: These poems consider the history of the Americas and their uncertain future, particularly regarding the danger of climate change, and suggest a line from colonialism toward a shattering “Apocalipsixtlán.”
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GONGonzález, Rigoberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 GONGonzález, Rigoberto
Summary: Standing over two graves, Rigoberto González studies the names “Ramon” and “María” under the family name “González.” “She was María Carrillo, not María González,” he thinks. His grandmother is missing. So begins González’s memoir, a journey to recover a more complete picture of his grandmother, who raised him following his mother’s death. González travels to his abuela’s birthplace, Michoacán,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GONGonzales, Laurence
Summary: "Uses psychological & neurological research & case studies to explain the science of survival."
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Summary: Reconstructs the crash of United Airlines Flight 232, which hit the runway in a huge fireball after experiencing engine failure and loss of all flight controls and still had one hundred eighty-five survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 GONGonzales, Laurence
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 GONEllis, Gerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.674 ELLSpence, Gerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.852 SPEGonzález, Jorge
Summary: "Captain Barbosa sails with his trusty shipmates--a mosquito, a crocodile, and an elephant--and when a seagull steals his treasured skull hat, Barbosa and his crew give chase."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019