Dark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARK, KIMBERLY DARBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARD, ELIZABETH BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARDAndrews, Bart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.457 ANDStupak, Bart
Summary: Bart Stupak, a nine-term Democratic Congressman from Michigan's First District, brought two unshakable principles with him to Capitol Hill in 1992: a firm belief in the sanctity of life, and the conviction that health care was a right for all Americans and not a privilege for the fortunate few. Studies indicating that 45,000 Americans died needlessly every year for lack of access to health care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Covenant Books, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.6 STUOlds, Elizabeth Fagg.
Contents: Annie Smith Peck.--Delia J. Akeley.--Marguerite Harrison.--Louise Arner Boyd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.922 OLDVan Olphen, Bart.
Contents: Alaska : salmon & halibut -- Netherlands : plaice -- Vietnam : clams -- Denmark : mussels -- South Africa : hake -- England : dover sole & mackerel -- California : tuna -- Norway : cod & haddock -- Australia : coorong mullet & mulloway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kyle Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.69 VANBrizendine, Louann
Summary: Details how the male brain, specifically how it experiences life's phases and perceives reality, is fundamentally different from the female brain. Packed with cutting-edge research, Brizendine unveils the problem-solving, competitive, sexual, and testosterone-packed machine that is the male brain.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 BRIEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: Through their correspondence, John and Abigail Adams' relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 ADAMS, JOHN EllisRioux, Anne Boyd
Summary: "Since its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women has been one of America's favorite stories. While we now think of it as a girls' book, it was initially read by both boys and girls, men and women of all ages. Professor Anne Boyd Rioux, who read it in her twenties, tells us how Louisa May Alcott came to write the book and drew inspiration for her story from her own life. Its Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 808.3 RIOWoodsmall, Cindy.
Summary: Two friends from different worlds - one Old Order Amish, one Englischer - share the truths that bring them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 277.3 WOOLayton, Bart
Summary: A young Frenchman convinces a Texas family that he is their teenage son who has been missing for three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IMPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPMillard, Bart
Summary: "The captivating story behind the bestselling single in the history of Christian music--and the man who wrote the song. MercyMe's crossover hit, "I Can Only Imagine," has touched millions of people around the world. But few know about the pain, redemption, and healing that inspired it. Now Bart Millard, award-winning recording artist and lead singer of MercyMe, shares how his dad's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MillardDidion, Joan.
Summary: Blue nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 813.54 DIDION, JOAN DIDMcDowell, Bart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [National Geographic Society 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.03 MCDMcDowell, Bart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1991
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 945.634 MCDHopkin, Bart
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.1923 HOPEhrman, Bart D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.908 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 229.9206 EHRSummary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 932.014 HATHurt, Avery Elizabeth
Summary: Earth is presently our only home, and we must care for it with that thought in mind. How has the U.S. government protected our environment so that people can live and work safely in an always-changing world? From Earth Day to a possible Green New Deal, this book will take a look at the laws enacted to protect our water, land, and air. The Wilderness Act and the Endangered Species Act changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020