Summary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MERChau, Chan
Summary: Kristy's family moves to a new neighborhood where the kids make fun of Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. The Baby-sitters are not going to let them get away with it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: "Though Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most beloved figures in American history and millions of people visit the Lincoln Memorial each year, few are familiar with the intriguing stories behind this national monument. In authoritative yet friendly text and handsome watercolor illustrations, this volume reveals fascinating facts about the monument's design and construction, historic events...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 SACLowrey, Jim
Summary: A brief description of some of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's students, activites, and teachings from 1968-1973, by a member of the Pygmy Farm, a hippie commune in Boulder, Colorado.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Horse 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOWChii
Summary: "A diary comic with an upbeat, adorable flair that tells the charming tale of Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition-as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now, Chii is about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRILight, Char
Summary: "Throughout human history, societies around the world have developed varying concepts of gender that affect the roles its citizens play in their communities. There is an equally rich history of individuals who reject, subvert, expand, or explore the gender roles of their society. This book serves as an accessible introduction to the history of gender and conversations on gender identity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.3 LIGChar, René
Summary: "The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 CHAFreeman, Lory.
Summary: Discusses the different types of touching and offers advice on how to react to unwanted touching.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.7044 FRECham, Jorge
Summary: "You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and your odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questions. Why can't I travel back in time? Where did the universe come from? What's inside a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 CHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 CHACham, Jorge.
Summary: Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore--there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 CHALowry, Lois.
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LOWBooth, Char
Summary: Whether or not "instruction" appears in their job titles, librarians are often in the position of educating their users, colleagues, and peers to successfully locate and evaluate information. Because MLIS education tends to offer less-than-comprehensive preparation in pedagogy and instructional design, this book tackles the challenge of effective teaching and training head-on. In this book the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.7 BOOLowery, Mike
Summary: "There are endless possibilities for keeping spirits high and brains engaged at home, including throwing a virtual party, holding family Olympics, learning a magic trick, making a flip book, and many more. Doodles, jokes, and entertaining tips enliven the crafts, games, adventures, projects, and creative boredom-busting activities the whole family will enjoy. Most call for common crafting gear...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 LOWSummary: Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OUTLowery, Linda
Summary: A biography of the freed slave who made her fortune in Colorado and used her money to bring other former slaves there to begin new lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BROWN STRLOWRY, MARK
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Piper the hyper mouse discovers that it is better to give than to receive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC LOWRYLowry, Adam.
Summary: "A case study for the next generation of start-ups by the unconventional founders of Method. Founded ten years ago by childhood pals Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry, Method has been making headlines and profits with a revolutionary blend of culture and commerce, style and substance. Today, Method's ecofriendly soaps, detergents, and cleaners are ubiquitous in stores, capturing valuable shelf space...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 RYALowry, Beverly
Summary: "In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the scene, but no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LOWLowry, Lois
Summary: "From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner KenardPak"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 LOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word LowryLowry, Mark.
Summary: The lyrics to the Christmas song "Mary, did you know?" are brought to life through illustrations plus interpretive Bible verses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 230 LOWChan, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.9772 CHALowry, Beverly.
Contents: Araminta -- Dorchester : birth -- Childhood -- At Polish Mills : a shower of fire -- The weight : at the Bucktown Crossroads -- Sold and carried away : the slave-holder's choice -- Marriage -- Over the line -- Family -- Rescues, promises -- Becoming Moses -- With John Brown : dreams, metaphor -- Last rescue -- The General -- Beaufort, South Carolina -- The proclamation, the raid -- Raining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUBMAN, HARRIET LOWLowry, Rich.
Summary: Revered today across the political spectrum, Abraham Lincoln believed in a small but active government in a nation defined by aspiration. He embraced the market and the transportation and communications revolutions beginning to take hold, and helped give birth to the modern industrial economy. Lincoln's vision of an upwardly mobile society that rewards and supports individual striving was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM LOWLowry, Shannon.
Summary: A collection not only of Curtis' romantic photographs of Aleutian Indians, but also of the folktales and stories Curtis gathered during the 30 years he chronicled Native Americans and their cultures. By today's standards of anthropology, Curtis' images are flawed in that they are more artistic than realistic, yet they are no less intriguing, especially in light of the fact that Curtis died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1994