Stokes, Abigail
Summary: Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby Stokes is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbiesspecifically older newbiesturn to when they want to become digitally literate. And her book, Is This Thing On?, is as smart, comprehensive, reassuring, and jargon-free as she is: the epitome of user-friendly. And it is now completely revised and updated to keep pace with the fast-changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004 STOJohnston, Johanna.
Summary: Presents portraits of fourteen American women who played important roles in American history, including Emma Willard, Abigail Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A moving portrayal of an American family coping with one of the most intimate of transformations. When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender and changed her name to Trisha, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. Her father's transition to female was difficult for her straight-identified mother, Marcia, to accept, but her parents stayed together. As the Shattucks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FROShone, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 SHOSting
Summary: Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwrting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2003
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Summary: In Ultimate Soap Carving, Makiko Sone--founder of the Mizutama.Soap YouTube channel--shares her secrets for designing and hand carving a variety of beautiful soap designs by cutting, shredding, shaping, sculpting, and other oddly satisfying techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736 SONTone, Joe
Summary: The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border -- and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy. José Treviño was a devoted family man working as a bricklayer in Texas. Back in Mexico, his younger brother Miguel was ascending to the top ranks of Los Zetas, a notoriously bloody drug cartel. One day José showed up at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TONShone, Rob.
Summary: Introduces the pachycephalosaurus; describes in graphic novel form its life as a hatchling survives until, as an adult, he fights to lead the herd; and provides information on pachycephalosaurus fossils and the other creatures in the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.914 SHOStowe, Doug
Summary: "Think inside the box! Looking for a fun way to make use of those offcuts you've been saving? Making wooden boxes is a great way to use scrap lumber or exotic woods that can prove too expensive for larger projects. Boxes require a minimal amount of material but afford you the opportunity to learn and practice a range of woodworking techniques. Plus, handmade boxes make great gifts. Build 25...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Popular Woodworking Boxes 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 STOFinnanger, Tone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746 SewAdams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADABalfe, Abigail
Summary: The author-illustrator shares her journey of growing up autistic in a confusing "normal" world, all the while missing some important information about herself, in this illustrated and completely unique book that provides crucial information about autism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BALFE BALPogrebin, Abigail.
Summary: "The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality. Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is many things, but the one that has defined her most profoundly is 4zidentical twin.4y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.44 POGThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ThomasBeal, Abigail.
Summary: Introduces German shepherds, discussing their history, temperament, physical characteristics, and the care they need as pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2011
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Summary: A memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? Who are our most trusted, valuable companions and what will we do for them? When you've given up, when you least expect it, there it is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, ABIGAIL THOWheatley, Abigail
Summary: "From atoms to X-rays and from the Big Bang to the Internet, brilliant breakthroughs by successful scientists have changed the world again and again. Dip inside this book to read the stories of 100 scientists and their amazing discoveries..." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM WheatleyBeal, Abigail.
Summary: Learn all about dachshunds and how to care for one as your pet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2011
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Summary: This is a non-fiction book for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like to live in a castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623 WHEWheatley, Abigail.
Summary: Introduces the study of human material remains from the past; describes the materials archaeologists examine and the techniques they use; illustrates important finds by continent; and includes a timeline and glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub.] 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930.1 WHEStowe, Doug.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.512 STOStowe, Hannah
Summary: "As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOWE, HANNAH STOSone, Hiro
Summary: Offers more than fifty sushi recipes, with information on preparation techniques, equipment, classic components, and instructions on how to press rice balls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2000