Dougherty, Rachel
Summary: "A beginning leveled reader that follows the life of Rebecca the raccoon, who lived in the White House during Calvin Coolidge's presidency."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of Tower Records, from the opening of its flagship store in Sacramento, California in 1960, to its evolution into an international retail chain and bankruptsy in 2006. Owner Russ Solomon and various store employees discuss Tower's unique approach to selling recorded music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALLSummary: The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaepernick Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 ABOBaron-Cohen, Simon
Summary: "In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen reveals the surprising answer to two apparently distinct questions: Why are humans so inventive? And why does autism exist? The first question hangs over almost every human endeavor: Business people want to knowhow to innovate. Cognitive psychologists want to understand the nature of creativity. Evolutionary scientists and comparative psychologists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 BARReeves, Keanu
Summary: Interplanetary rulers from the 27th century send two teenaged boys, who should have been studying history instead of playing rock music, on a guided trip through time and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BILSalmon, Catherine.
Summary: Discusses how the strategies developed by middle children can translate into healthier relationships and more successful careers, with tips on how to maximize the potential and avoid the pitfalls of middle-child dynamics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.924 SALSalmon, Marylynn
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 346.7304 SALCowin, Dana.
Summary: "An uproarious, inspiring cookbook from the longtime editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine, in which the first lady of food spills the secret of her culinary ineptitude, while learning--finally--to cook, side-by-side with some of the greatest chefs working today..."-- From dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 COWSummary: In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BOYFarrell, Colin
Summary: The story of Simon Fitzmaurice, an Irish filmmaker who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ITSSummary: Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. Follow the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and make country music. At a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SHUSalmón, Enrique
Summary: The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath-- known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara-- has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Salmón, an ethnobotanist, builds on this concept of connection and highlights plants revered by North America's indigenous peoples. He teaches us the ways plants are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.63 SALSammon, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SAMColins, Luke
Summary: Rev up your reading engines! Gearhead garage is ready to take you for a ride. From screaming fast F1 cars to custom choppers, get to know what's "under the hood" of your favorite vehicles. You're in the driver's seat now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE COLColwin, Laurie.
Summary: The author combines her writing skills with her love of cooking in a collection of essays on food and entertaining that discuss the challenges of being a working mother
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.4 COLCoplin, Bill.
Summary: A handy, straightforward guide that teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate--revised and updated for today's economic and academic landscapes. Award-winning college professor and adviser Bill Coplin lays down the essential skills students need to survive and succeed in today's job market, based on his extensive interviews with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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Tolin, David.
Summary: Provides the tools to take charge and overcome fears. Provides a step-by-step plan for beating many different kinds of fears, including social anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and phobias,
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 TOLCulin, Stewart
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 CULAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADASalomon, David
Summary: This book's "up close and personal" photographs of pandas and its array of panda facts will captivate young nonfiction lovers. Readers will learn how one mother and her cub are being protected and raised in a Chinese panda reserve, which seeks to help this vulnerable species survive. In fact, ChiDa, the panda cub, is being prepared to be released into the wild--once she is old enough and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: "The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 SALCOLEN, KIMBERLY
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: TC J371.3 COLBolin, Alice
Summary: "A collection of sharp, poignant essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our obsession with dead women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018