Sepetys, Ruta
Summary: "A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 RAMABenjamin, Ruha.
Summary: "From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy of the U.S.A. 1986
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Summary: "60 delicious Indian recipes that use just 6 common spices"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5954 KAHModan, Rutu.
Summary: Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2007
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Summary: "After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter, Mica, to Warsaw to reclaim a family property lost during World War II."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MODBenjamin, Ruha
Summary: Benjamin draws on her own experiences as well as research to show how we can build a more just world--one small, and viral, step at a time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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Summary: "Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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Summary: This book discusses the actor's goals, techniques, relationship to the physical and psychological senses, animation of the body and mind, listening and talking, and expectation. It includes useful exercises to help the actor in many areas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1991
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Summary: At last the dressage world has a sensible means of reconciling classical idealism with show-ring aspirations. In these pages, Gräf shares her schooling exercies, as well as the techniques she uses to incorporate groundwork, long-lining, trail riding, creative play, bombproofing, and turnout in her training program. The result is dressage that makes reaching your riding goals look and seem easy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Books 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712.5 RUTYeager, Jeana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 YEAFrith, Uta
Summary: "Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 FRIButz, Bob
Summary: From a vivid observation of conventional embalming to a helping hand in digging a grave in one of the scores of 'natural burial preserves' popping up all across America, Butz offers a witty and detailed account of his adventure into the current trend of green burials. As he weighs in on the emotional and biodegradable benefits of being buried in a blanket, shroud, or hand-made coffin crafted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spirituality & Health 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 363.75 BUTCesari, Luca
Summary: "In this hugely charming and entertaining chronicle of everyone's favorite dish, acclaimed Italian food writer and historian Luca Cesari draws on literature, history, and many classic recipes in order to enlighten pasta lovers everywhere, both the gourmet and the gluten free. What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Summary: "Adachi and Shimamura are now in their second year of high school. Luckily, they're in the same class this semester, but when Adachi sees Shimamura making friends with their new classmates so quickly, she starts to panic. Feeling left out, she begins distancing herself from Shimamura, who can't help but notice that Adachi's been on her mind a whole lot these days"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ADALammèr, Jutta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 1988
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Summary: A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 RAZGolabek, Mona
Summary: The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOLBennett, Juda
Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 KURMufleh, Luma
Summary: "Refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023