Dinan, Kim
Summary: "Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their lives and travel around the world. Just before their departure, they're given an unexpected gift that will shape their adventures: a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away to those they encounter on their journey....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DINAN, KIM DINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel DinanWilliams, Dinah (Dinah J.)
Summary: Profiles for over eighty gods and goddesses from over thirty pantheons from all over the world, illustrated by artists from those cultures. Filled with family drama, heroic deeds, impossible feats, battles and magic, stories have been used to address life's biggest answers for centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 201.3 WILWilliams, Dinah (Dinah J.)
Summary: Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been mystified by UFOsunidentified flying objects. Even Christopher Columbus, on a 1492 voyage aboard the Santa Maria, was puzzled by a sight he described as a light glimmering at a great distance in the sky. While no UFOs have ever been captured or recovered, there may be startling clues to their existence left behind in places where they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.9 WILFried, Dinah
Summary: No recipes, but an assortment of photographic interpretations of culinary moments from contemporary and classic literature. Fried pairs each place setting with the text from that book that inspired its creation. She includes food facts and anecdotes about the authors, their work, and their culinary predilections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 FRIBrown, Dinah
Summary: Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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Summary: Gifts of food can be very special indeed - homemade, beautifully packaged, and delicious. Gourmet Gifts, by cooking school teacher and food editor Dinah Corley, brings together the culinary and the creative with 100 recipes for homemade gift packs and baskets filled with gourmet foodstuffs - jams, nuts, patés, and other items covering a wide range of flavors - which cater to a rising trend in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Bucholz, Dinah.
Summary: Bangers and mash with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hogwarts dining hall.A proper cuppa tea and rock cakes in Hagrid's hut.Cauldron cakes and pumpkin juice on the Hogwarts Express.With this cookbook, dining a la Hogwarts is as easy as Banoffi Pie! With more than 150 easy-to-make recipes, tips, and techniques, you can indulge in spellbindingly delicious meals drawn straight from the pages of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Johnson, Dinah
Summary: "A richly informative alphabet picture book celebrating Harlem's vibrant traditions, past and present"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 JOHJohnson, Dinah
Summary: "A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WELAnastasio, Dina
Summary: Introduces facts about the Super Bowl, including the history of the game, famous players throughout its history, and the spectacle of the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ANACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Sport What AnastasioAnastasio, Dina
Summary: "Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world. Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everythingchanged in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 384.8 ANAGachman, Dina
Summary: "A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author and journalist whose experience with two devastating losses inspired her to bring comfort and understanding to others. Since losing her mother to cancer in 2018 and her sister to alcoholism less than three years later, author and journalist Dina Gachman has dedicated herself to understanding what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 GACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.9 GACboyd, danah (danah michele)
Summary: An absolutely essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 BOYBakst, Dina
Summary: Provides practical tips for navigating the workplace while pregnant or being a new parent, covering such topics as morning sickness, maternity leave, and discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BAKDina, Karin.
Summary: Rick and Karin Dina are both healthcare practitioners and long-time followers of a raw food diet. They have provided scientific information on how to construct nutritious raw diets through their Science of Raw Food Nutrition classes to hundreds of students. This book is a compendium of the latest information from peer-reviewed research and their own clinical experience on why raw diets are so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Living Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.26 DINNayeri, Dina
Summary: In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers. What is it like to be a refugee? It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 NAYWilliams, Dinah (Dinah J.)
Summary: With heroic deeds, family drama, pulse-pounding battles, and shape-shifting magic, it's no wonder that mythology fascinates us all. Packed with facts, this book profiles over eighty of these fantastical beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD FIC WILWilliams, Dinah (Dinah J.)
Contents: Creepy islands -- Coffins in the trees -- The Lost Colony -- Blackbeard's revenge -- Treasure Island -- She survive? -- Deadly swamps -- Terrible Tilly -- Ghost of a mansion -- Snake Island -- The Moai of Rapa Nui -- Island of the Dead -- Creepy islands around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 133.1 WILBucholz, Dinah.
Summary: Contains 150 recipes inspired by the Harry Potter novels, with a guide to where the foods can be found in the books, including good food with bad relatives, treats from the train, the favorite cook's dishes, holiday fare, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J641.5942 BUCWilliams, Dinah
Summary: "This book is packed with fun facts and little-known details to make your visit to Walt Disney World even more special"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.5924 WILDrinan, Becky
Summary: Why spend months trawling boutiques, getting flustered by unhelpful sales assistants, when you could design your very own perfect, made-to-measure wedding dress? Professional dressmaker Becky Drinan guides you through the entire process, giving advice on dresses to suit every body shape and all the information you need on equipment, fabrics, sewing techniques and how to work from and alter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 DRIFalk, Daina
Summary: Offers game-day recipes from a nationally recognized sports expert and fan, including such options as Cajun shrimp skewers, empanadas, buffalo chicken salad, and Italian hero sandwich, along with signature recipes from professional athletes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 FALAral, Sinan
Summary: "Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020