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Summary: "In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAEFassin, Didier
Summary: "Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence. What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from dramatic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping accounts can obscure a crucial aspect of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 FASBoursin, Didier.
Summary: A book of origami animals that offers a wide variety of designs, rated according to skill level. The book includes four pages of basic instruction for techniques and symbols used in the books and follows with 28 paper animals illustrated in full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boulevard Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 JILWillette, Kate.
Summary: Willette is the spouse of a person living with a spinal cord injury and wrote the book for those who want to understand the basic biology of the injured cord and what basic approaches scientists are taking to heal, mend or bypass the nervous system, and for those who want to know what you as a non-scientist can do to advocate and speed things along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.856 WILJillette, Penn.
Summary: The outspoken half of magic duo Penn & Teller presents an atheist reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments, discussing why doubt, skepticism, and wonder should be celebrated and offering humorous stories from his own experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.607 JILGillette, Felix
Summary: "The riveting inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television-by two veteran media reporters HBO changed how stories could be told on TV. The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Game of Thrones. The network's meteoric rise heralded the second golden age of television with serialized shows that examined and reflected American anxieties, fears, and secret passions through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 GILDicker, Joël
Summary: " The #1 internationally bestselling thriller, and ingenious book within a book, about the disappearance of a 15-year-old New Hampshire girl and, 30 years later, a young American writer's determination to clear his mentor's name-and find the inspiration for his next bestseller August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDicker, Katie.
Summary: Provides instructions on drawing different fish, including koi, guppies, and angelfish, in a volume with pet care instructions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2013
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Summary: "In this book the authors present scientific evidence revealing that happiness is not overrated, and is good for people's health, social relationships, job success, longevity, and altruism. They advocate an optimal level of happiness in which people do not seek euphoria, but pursue life satisfaction, meaning, and frequent positive emotions, with recognition that some negative emotions are an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 DIEFidler, Richard.
Summary: Describes the social, political, environmental and moral issues of the regions' history. The author writes about how poor people in Grand Traverse County were cared for, past forays into dissension as well as patriotrism, crime and justice and humans' effect on Grand Traverse Bay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area Historical Society 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 FID1 available in Local Author, Call number: 977.464 FID
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local FidlerDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.54 DidioDinger, Charlotte.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carousel Art 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.068 DINDiller, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 DILWidder, Edith
Summary: "Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIDDER, EDITH WIDFidler, Richard
Summary: The story of how the purposes of education, curriculum and instruction, and teachers and students changed over the course of a century and a half in a Northern Michigan Community
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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Fidler
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Smith, Dodie
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1965
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIClark, Dodie
Summary: "A collection of personal stories, lessons, song lyrics, and photos from the beloved British vlogger Dodie Clark, also known online as doddleoddle. When I feel like I'm going mad I write. A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so big I could barely hold them in my head. I was convinced that when they'd happen, the world would end. But the world didn't end. In fact, it pushed on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria/Keywords Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, DODIE CLAWider, Susan
Summary: "A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SALDicker, Katie
Summary: "From the chilly poles to the scorching Equator, and from the highest peak to the deepest ocean trench, Factopia takes you on a fact-filled journey around Planet Earth, exploring all of its amazing wonders, but without the boring parts."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Ltd 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ROSDidion, Joan.
Summary: The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America— particularly California—in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DIDDidion, Joan
Summary: "Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDDidion, Joan.
Summary: A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006