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Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARCary, Mara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 CARDuguay, Dara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 DUGZogheib, Susan.
Summary: Eat better, Live better this Mediterranean diet guide makes it easy. The mediterranean diet isn't just a way of eating - it's a holistic approach to feeling your best both physically and mentally. The Easy Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan makes it easy for you to start and stay on the diet for long-term health. This book has everything you need to seamlessly transition to the Mediterranean diet:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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Summary: "Explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BLAFara, Patricia.
Summary: In this book the author rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Aiming not just to provide information but to make people think, it explores how science has become so powerful by describing the financial interests and imperial ambitions behind its success. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 FARYarm, Mark.
Summary: A tribute to the Pacific Northwest's grunge genre draws on the observations of individuals at the forefront of the movement from Soundgarden and the Melvins to Nirvana and Pearl Jam, citing such influences as the rise of Seattle's Sub Pop record label and the death of Kurt Cobain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 YARKern, Jara
Summary: An infographic guide breaks down the complicated rules and guidelines for writing the English language and makes them clear and straightforward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 425 KERMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCAZara, Christopher
Summary: "For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: A former White House Executive Chef presents more than sixty of his signature recipes, along with a look at the Clinton and Bush First Families and an account of such episodes as teaching Chelsea Clinton to cook, the chaos in the wake of 9/11, and the challenges of serving under two very different presidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.4 SCHYard, Sherry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 YARCaponigro, Dara
Summary: "Are you High Style or Boho, or maybe Happy Modern or Trad with a Twist? The legendary fabrics and wallpapers house of Schumacher shows how you can use their iconic prints and patterns to create a variety of beautiful, chic interiors in the style that most suits you"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 2020
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Summary: "A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 677.21 YAFYafa, Stephen H.
Summary: No topic in nutrition is more controversial than wheat. While mega-sellers like Grain Brain and Wheat Belly suggest that wheat may be the new asbestos, Stephen Yafa finds that it has been wrongly demonized. His revealing book sets the record straight, breaking down the botany of the wheat plant we’ve hijacked for our own use, the science of nutrition and digestion, the effects of mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 YAFMangini, Cara
Summary: "Marrying the art of butchery with the joy of gorgeous seasonal produce, The Vegetable Butcher is the fresh, inspiring and essential guide that demystifies the world of vegetables, from exotic crosnes and gnarly celeriac to the amazingly versatile everyday potato. It's the book that show exactly how to prepare an artichoke-plus peel a tomato, chiffonade kale, slice kohlrabi into carpaccio,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.7 MANMangini, Cara
Summary: "With simple lessons and recipes that put irresistible, vegetable forward dishes in every home cook's everyday rotation, IACP Award winner and James Beard Award finalist Cara Mangini presents a foundational education in vegetable cooking in an approachable framework, through uncomplicated lessons with seasonal riffs. More than 100 recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.77 GRERobertson, Cara
Summary: "The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 345.744 ROBBryan, Lara
Summary: "Nobody has everything they need all the time. So how can we make do with what we have? Economics is all about understanding the choices we make to solve this problem, from people choosing how to spend their time, to businesses figuring out how much to sell, to governments deciding how to run a country." --Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 330 BRYCasey, Lara
Summary: "Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide ... [the author] offers wisdom from God's Word alongside lessons ... [she] has learned in her garden. Woven throughout is her personal story"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 248.4 CASDato, Lara
Summary: "Help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life!Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? Be it chicken nuggets, pizza, pancakes, or French fries-if your child is only eating a few foods regularly, their diet may be seriously lacking in the nutrition and vitamins they need to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 DATFeigel, Lara
Summary: "A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018