Jefferson, Margo
Summary: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFTrue, Margo.
Summary: Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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Summary: "Margo Price is from Aledo, in western Illinois; she's a Midwest farmer's daughter who moves to Nashville to become a musician. She waits tables, busks on the street, plays open mics, and talks to her uncle, Bob Fischer, a songwriter for dozens of country music legends. Uncle Bob's advice is to throw away her TV and do nothing but write. So, discouraged but determined, she does. Price writes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRICE, MARGO PRIMarzo, Clay.
Summary: "From the best freestyle surfer in the world, an inspiring and moving memoir about his ascendance to the top of the surfing world while struggling for most of his young life with undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome Clay Marzo has an almost preternatural gift with a surfboard. From his first moments underwater (he learned to swim at two months old) to his first ventures atop his father's surfboard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 MARZO, CLAY MarJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFMaine, Margo
Summary: ""The body is the canvas upon which women paint their secrets and self-doubt, their hopes and their dreams, their pain and their disappointments. Hair has historically played a central role in the battles for power, self-determination and autonomy-serving as a nonverbal language that represents women's lives. However, pain, anxiety, racism, sexism and rigid beauty standards can too often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toplight 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.5 MAIWestrheim, Margo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529.3 WESBorges, Marco
Summary: "Accessible and easy-to-follow, The Greenprint is a movement to embrace your absolute best and healthiest life. Through his more than two decades of experience working with clients, including some of the world's biggest celebrities, and spearheading exercise and nutrition research, Borges developed the groundbreaking "22 Laws of Plants," which he's determined are the most important plant-based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BORPiercy, Marge.
Summary: Brings together a collection of poems, recipes, personal reminiscences, and an insightful new interpretation of the rituals and symbols of the seder in a guide to creating a meaningful Passover for the entire family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.4 PIELargo, Michael.
Summary: "A one-of-a-kind treasury of the most strange and fascinating knowledge and lore about animals. Largo tells us their most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing--and often hilarious--fact about their oddest behavior. Largo also looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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Summary: "A poignant narrative of one mom's struggle to support her transgender daughter-showing how any parent can forge a deeper bond with their child by truly listening"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACK, MARLO MACBeaver, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.36 BEAPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEThomas, Marlo
Summary: Presents inspiring and empowering stories of women who have reinvented themselves in extraordinary ways, proving to women of all ages that the best is yet to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 THOThomas, Marlo.
Summary: Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write—a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey. For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she's lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty—TV and nightclub star Danny Thomas—she grew up among legendary funny men, carved much of her career in comedy and, to this day, surrounds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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Thomas, Marlo
Summary: "Long-married icons Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue offer a collection of intimate conversations with famous couples about their long marriages and how they have made their partnerships last"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 THOThomas, Marlo.
Summary: The award-winning actress shares her funny and heartwarming stories of a life filled with laughter. Woven throughout the book are her interviews with many beloved American comedians about how they, too, found the funny in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, MARLO THOBarbo, Maria S.
Summary: Scooby-doo and the gang try to solve the mystery of Mrs. Blake's missing cat. Picture clues are inserted throughout the story and flash cards are provided to help children learn new words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Preus, Margi.
Summary: The 14 trees in this book have earned the title "Celebritrees" for their global fame and significance. Both in fact and in legend, these fascinating trees remind us not only how much pleasure trees bring, but what they can tell us about history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: ACS Publications 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.5 MARBorges, Marco.
Summary: "The benefits of a vegan diet cannot be understated, as it has been proven to help prevent cancer, lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of heart disease, decrease blood pressure, and even reverse diabetes. As one of today's most sought-after health experts, exercise physiologist Marco Borges has spent years helping his exclusive list of high-profile clients permanently change their lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celebra 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BORIansiti, Marco
Summary: In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.0563 IANIacoboni, Marco.
Summary: Draws on recent scientific findings in neuroscience to introduce the concept of mirror neuron "smart cells" that enable a person's ability to understand fellow humans, in an account that evaluates the role of mirror neurons in a range of aspects from morality and addiction to political affiliations and consumer choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 573.8 IACPolo, Marco
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abaris Books 1982