Summary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWSummary: Explores the lesser-known tale of George's creators, Hans and Margret Rey. Years later, having heard that Hans was wasting his artistic talents as a bookkeeper in Rio, Margaret traveled to Brazil to persuade him to marry her and do something creative together. Arriving in New York as refugees, they started their life anew and over the next three decades, they created a classic that continues to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MONDinger, Charlotte.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carousel Art 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.068 DINRinger, Jenifer.
Summary: A behind-the-curtains look at the rarified world of classical ballet from a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. From the heart-pounding moments waiting in the wings before a performance to appearing on "Oprah" to discuss weight and body image among dancers, "Dancing Through It" is moving and revelatory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RINGER, JENIFER RINSanger, Margaret
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planned Parenthood of Northern Michigan 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.9 SANAdler, Margot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1986
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Summary: "Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers anddissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, including Norman Rockwell, Joan Crawford, and Rod McKuen, who judged; and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.6 MIFRosenberg, Margot.
Summary: Offers instructions for maintaining and repairing old books, discussing general cleaning principles, hazards against which books should be protected, and how to house and handle books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 025.84 ROSVuolo, Jinger
Summary: "Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VUOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio VuoloMorrell, Margot.
Summary: Lessons in being an effective leader in any field or activity, based on the leadership principles used by Sir Ernest Shackleton from 1914-1916 to preserve himself and the lives of his crew as they were stranded on an Arctic ice flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4012 MORWinger, Jill
Summary: "Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 FINGuralnick, Margot
Summary: "Low-impact living is about making thoughtful, eco-friendly choices in your home. But being sustainable doesn't have to mean sacrificing style. That's where Remodelista comes in. In this comprehensive guide, they decode the secrets to creating a home that's good for the planet-and totally livable"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 GURMifflin, Margot
Summary: Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.004 OATMAN, OLIVE ANN MIFSwingle Singers
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN SWIFrimansson, Inger
Summary: After teacher Beth kills a harmless prowler while she and her partner Ulf are vacationing in a remote farmhouse, and she and Ulf bury the body near the house and return to their lives in Stockholm as though nothing had happened, their actions take a grim psychological toll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: btb 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC FRISummit, Ginger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SUMWadsworth, Ginger
Summary: How can dogs that sniff for excrement, urine, vomit, and mucus help protect animals from extinction? Scat-detection dogs like Wicket, Tucker, and Orbee are conservation heroes and pioneers in a cutting-edge field of science. Canine detec-tives use their super sense of smell to locate the scat of target animals. From loose bear dung to gooey whale poop, scat can tell scientists valuable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 WADSarlot, Raymond R.
Summary: Presents a history of the well-known Los Angeles hotel, along with stories and anecdotes of the famous actors and celebrities who have stayed there from its opening in 1929 up to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SARJefferson, 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: Highlights a wide variety of weather conditions by taking a tour around the world and examining weather in different places on the same day in March.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 551.6 SINSinger, Peter
Summary: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 178 SINSinger, Peter
Summary: Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in your community), and political awareness (contacting your representatives to ensure that your nation's foreign aid is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009