Holland, Judy
Summary: "HappiNest provides a road map to help parents navigate new paths, evolving relationships and existential challenges when their kids leave home. This book distills the latest research and presents vignettes from interviews with more than 300 experts, including psychologists, sociologists, seasoned empty nesters, and fledglings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 HOLSummary: The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THRSummary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORISummary: "Presented by an anonymous North Korean professor, this anti-Western propaganda film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. ... Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROHolland, Tanya
Summary: Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco. The restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled low and snug next to a scrap-metal yard in this Bay Area rust belt. Out front, customers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 HOLSummary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASPenner, Lucille Recht.
Summary: The statue of liberty stands tall to welcome people to America. Read all about this very special lady!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWCrossley-Holland, Kevin
Summary: Collects tales of Norse mythology featuring the powerful Odin, Thor and his hammer, Mjolnir, Loki, the final battle of Ragnarok, and power stuggles among the figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 398 CROVolland, Susan
Summary: Sear, deglaze, enhance, and serve: flavorful dinners can be that simple. In her unique, approachable style, Susan Volland first explains how to skillfully wield a hot skillet to sear entr©♭es, then shows how a sauce can be made quickly in that same hot pan. In more than 60 enticing recipes for seafood, poultry, meats, vegetables, tofu, and eggs, Volland invites home cooks to adapt her recipes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Method VollandHolling, Holling Clancy
Summary: Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1951
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.92 HOLVolland, Susan
Summary: Finally, a cookbook on sauces that is fresh, vibrant, and alive. In Mastering Sauces, Susan Volland veers away from traditional lesson plans and presents sauce-making in a whole new way. She focuses on how great cooks all over the world make sauces with impromptu élan—they splash and drizzle, slather and douse. Great sauces are made by following three fundamental principles: Maximize Flavor,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8 VOLJudt, Tony.
Summary: It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2010
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Long, David
Summary: Spanning continents and covering thousands of years, this fun, lively book shows how the people of these vanished civilizations lived and how their societies evolved. Explore the lives of ancient Greek Gods, meet fearsome gladiators from ancient Rome and uncover the mystery of the Aztecs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Cleary, Brian P.
Summary: "A playful and punny illustrated poetry collection from Brian Cleary that's perfect for middle grade readers. Includes quick tips about poetic forms and poetic devices that teachers can use in poetry lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Pollard, Velma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canoe Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427.9729 POLRouland, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 ROUWollard, Kathy
Summary: "You can't believe your eyes. But you can believe the numbers. The Photicular series, with four books published in the last five years, now has 2 million copies in print--and with every new title published the backlist rises to the occasion. After last year's success with Jungle (over 215,000 copies in print in just a few months), here comes Wild -- the book, and the idea, for which the series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 WOLJudt, Tony.
Summary: The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.55 JUDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.55 judLudy, Leslie.
Summary: In The Set-Apart Woman, women of all ages will be encouraged to stay grounded in Jesus amid the many distractions and temptations of their daily lives. Biblical truths will help readers understand what it means to live the consecrated life, set apart for God's purposes. Readers will apply these truths to practical areas of struggle that women face on a daily basis, such as sinful attitudes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Navigators 2015
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Judt, Tony
Summary: Offers a narrative of the United States' intellectual history of the past one hundred years by discussing the ideas and thinkers that helped shape the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.092 JUDHowland, Genevieve
Summary: "With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page, offering up the first week-to-week natural pregnancy book for soon-to-be moms. For the last half-century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.2 HOWGilland, Asa
Summary: An innovative, fully recyclable board book for babies and toddlers that introduces the beautiful world of houseplants and helps children connect with the natural world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board GillandBlackiston, Howland.
Summary: This practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, harvesting and marketing your honey, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment and economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2009