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Summary: "Give your toddler a strong social emotional foundation for early learning with this charming introduction to nine familiar emotions. My First Brain Quest: Feelings introduces babies and toddlers to nine core emotions-happy, sad, scared, excited, angry, shy, proud, surprised, and calm-to help develop essential emotional literacy skills, promote social and emotional health, and set a strong...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD FEE

Thallon, Rob.

Summary: "Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you'll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you're building basement walls or framing a chimney opening. This wealth of visual information is mined...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2016

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Fontana, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1994

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit Fontana

Highstein, Max

Summary: This seven-lesson stress relief meditation program will make your car a stress-free sanctuary. Use it as you drive to work, run errands or undergo a long drive to visit relatives. If you're a stressed driver, or could just use a break from your daily worries.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 629.2 HIG

Keenan, Cody

Summary: Barack Obama's chief speechwriter Cody Keenan shares an account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president's words could bring the nation together or tear it apart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 KEE

Summary: The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NAV

Summary: Join Hopkins, Alex, and Leah as they learn everyday signs such as friends, emotions, fruits, vegetables, opposites, and many more. Songs include Can you feel it?, Toy box, Show me a sign, and That tastes good.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BAB

Roy, Robert L.

Summary: Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders—methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 ROY

Santos, Victor D. O.

Summary: "This illustrated riddle introduces children to language's impact on human culture and history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.44 SAN

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAN

Lukidis, Lydia

Summary: "It's a battle of the hunter versus the warrior! Roman goddess Diana reigns over nature, fertility, childbirth, and the boundary between Earth and the underworld. The Greek goddess Athena is known for her wisdom and courage in battle. If these two goddesses were to go head-to-head, who would come out on top? Compare and contrast Diana's and Athena's strengths and weaknesses in this Mythology...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 292.2 LUK

Goldin-Meadow, Susan

Summary: "Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GOL

Shane, Neala

Summary: "What's in a name? Thoreau thought 'all the poetry in the world.' How does a parent live up to that? Here, parents find more than lists: each entry illuminates a name's distinctive spiritual, historical, and cultural background--its poetry. Names, the initial way we meet someone, from the traditional or religious to the 'made up' and even controversial, are fully explained. Each entry includes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929 SHA

Pinker, Steven

Summary: Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Folio Society 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 PIN

McClain, S. (Sally)

Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001

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Kilian, Crawford

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Counsel Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 KIL

Parr, Todd

Summary: "Algunas familias son grandes. Algunas familias adoptan hijos. ¡Abre este libro para leer sobre todo tipo de familia!"--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, uan divsión de Little Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRD

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEI

Summary: "How good are you at reading people? A renowned communication expert reveals the messages we're all constantly sending, whether we realize it or not"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.69 UND
Call number: DVD 153.69 UND

Perlin, Ross

Summary: "From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and--because many have never been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.44 PER

Rees-Jones, Trevor

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REES-JONES, TREVOR REE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.085` REE

Fury, Dalton.

Summary: A firsthand account of the Battle of Tora Bora and the Delta Force operations outlines the experiences of its elite team of secret counter-terrorist members, tracing their siege against bin Laden within his cave sanctuary inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 FUR

Macy, Sue

Summary: Presents the story of the man who founded the National Yiddish Book Center, and describes the worldwide effort he currently leads to collect unwanted Yiddish books and save the Yiddish language from extinction.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LAN

Summary: An overview of the life of His Holiness, the 15th Dalai Lama with an explanation of how Tibetan Buddhism is both a religion and a "science of the mind." The Dalai Lama shares his crystallized understanding of the nature of mind, and its part in the creation and alleviation of all of our suffering. He discusses how the first step in dealing with emotions is to recognize the patterns, triggers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Beaver, David I.

Summary: "In much of the theory of meaning, philosophers and linguists have focused on the use of language in conveying information in cooperative informational exchanges. As a result, political uses of speech, of the sort that political propaganda exemplifies, have not been taken to be a central case of language use. In this book, Jason Stanley and David Beaver focus on the political use of speech as a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023

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