Hensler, Christy Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hancock House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 HenslerFessler, Ann.
Summary: This book brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children. It tells not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8298 FESJoslin, Mary
Summary: The story of God's love lighting up the world and bringing the joy of new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2006
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 232.97 JOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: J 232.97 JOSPingry, Patricia A.
Summary: A brief retelling of the events of the first Easter, from Jesus' ministry through the crucifixion and resurrection. On board pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CandyCane Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD PINMann, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MANJörgensen, Christer
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.18 JORMilligan, Bryce
Summary: Relates a legend about the Irish slave girl who became Saint Brigid, beginning with a celestial song, a mysterious gift, and a prophecy on the night of her birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MilliHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HELHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARENDT, HANNAH HELSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LINSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LINNewman, Christy M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 NEWBroyles, Anne
Summary: "A picture book biography of American folk artist and labor organizer Ralph Fasanella. When dared to jump, Ralph always took the dare. So begins this loving tribute to a singular artist and his tireless efforts to honor and celebrate immigrant and working-class communities through his paintings."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FASANELLA BRONewman, Christy M.
Contents: Getting a job -- On the job -- Making choices about money -- Driving a car -- Having a good time -- Discovering patterns -- Wash and wear -- What the doctor said -- Going to school -- Becoming a citizen -- Getting used to a new land -- Discovering patterns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 NEWSummary: To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.06 FIGDaynes, Katie.
Summary: How do pigs keep cool? Why do farmers shear their sheep? Which farm animals live underwater? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more facts about farm animals around the world. Farm animals is part of an exciting new series of books for children who are beginning to read on their own. The easy-to-read text has been specially written with the help of a reading expert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [EDC Pub.] 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animal Usb DaynesCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636 DAY1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAY
Milbourne, Anna.
Summary: An illustrated introduction to cats for children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animal Usb MilbourneFurnas, Christi
Summary: "I created Fox Foxerson, a gender neutral protagonist faced with the onset of an unfamiliar mental illness. Fox battles symptoms and tries to stay employed. Fox navigates the health care system labyrinth and attempts to maintain friendships, even as defining "reality" becomes a challenge. In the realm of fiction, Fox can tell my adventures while I stay free to have fun with my characters: Sock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FURHessler, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.138 HESBrand, Christo
Summary: After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON BRAHessler, Alissa
Summary: Relocating from the city to the country is becoming increasingly popular due to the rising cost of living, cramped apartments and the “live to work” mentality of the city. There are, however, realities of country living that many urbanites are unaware of. Alissa, ex-urbanite and writer behind Urban Exodus, presents all of the realistic aspects that potential farm and country house owners need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 HESSantangelo, Christa
Summary: In her decades of practice and academic research, Dr. Christa Santangelo, a psychologist and assistant clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco, has seen many relationships devastated by the emotional hurricane that teenagers can inflict on a family. Yet Dr. Santangelo also understands how that conflict can be resolved and a new way forward mapped together between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 SANEnsler, Eve
Summary: "Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ENSHessler, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2013