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Rasmussen, Crystal

Summary: "A cocktail-spitting, norm-pinching dive into twenty-first-century queer life, exploring bodies, identity, shame, and the glory of loving yourself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RASMUSSEN, CRYSTAL RAS

González, Echo Elise

Summary: A graphic-style nonfiction adventure into fundamental concepts in computer science. -- adapted from publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.74 GON

Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BRO

Kalman, Bobbie.

Summary: This book introduces the life and times of the pioneers describing their homes, tools, jobs, clothes, and travel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008

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Moyle, Eunice

Summary: With a unique mix of history and inspiration, Be The Change! gives young readers the tools and encouragement needed to be the change they wish to see in the world. Featuring the popular founders of Hello! Lucky stationery, this guidebook offers instruction and guidance to spark readers' creativity and inspire action in their local communities. With a lighthearted approach, the authors enlighten...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster Jr. 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 MOY

Hughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)

Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUG

Sonnie, Amy

Summary: "Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 SON

Browne, Meghan P.

Summary: "A nonfiction picture book that tells the fascinating story of the honeybee colonies that lived on the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and survived the devastating 2019 fire"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 BRO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 BRO

Ganter, J. Carl.

Summary: With These Hands is a documentary project of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, showcasing four family farms in Leelanau County, Michigan, as they deal with the threat of residential development. The families include Mary and Whitney Lyon, Leo Ocanas, Lew Seibold and Rex Dobson of Ruby Ellen Farm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 GAN
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 630 GAN

McKnight, John

Summary: "This book challenges the conventional wisdom about what you and I can do as citizens to shape our future. McKnight and Block offer concrete examples of what citizens can do and have done by drawing on resources in their families and communities."---David Mathews, President, Kettering Foundation" ""This book is the basis for health and happiness in any society. A must-read".---Quentin Young,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Planning Association 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult McKnight

Mulder, Michelle.

Summary: Picture a busy avenue. Now plant trees along the boulevard, paint a mural by the empty lot, and add a community garden. Set up benches along the sidewalks and make space for kids' chalk drawings, and you've set the scene for a thriving community. Placemaking--personalizing public and semi-private spaces like front yards--is a growing trend in cities and suburbs around the world, drawing people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ORCA Book Publishers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 307.1 MUL

Obama, George Hussein.

Summary: This is a memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, GEORGE OBA

Akhtar, Ayad

Summary: "Amir has left his Pakistani heritage behind in an attempt to make partner at his corporate law firm, but his wife Emily doesn't share his negative feelings about Islam--she's encouraged Amir to help with the case of a controversial imam. When they throw a dinner party for Amir's colleague Jory and her husband Isaac, the hard truths revealed lead to the unraveling of their carefully constructed...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 812 AKH

Summary: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAR
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GAR

Keillor, Garrison.

Summary: The creator of Lake Wobegon offers a photographic tour of the real-life places that inspired his beloved imaginary Minnesota town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.6 KEI

Taylor, Barbara Brown.

Contents: Practice of waking up to God -- Vision -- The practice of paying attention -- Reverence -- The practice of wearing skin -- Incarnation -- The practice of walking on the earth -- Groundedness -- The practice of getting lost -- Wilderness -- The practice of encountering others -- Community -- The practice of living with purpose -- Vocation -- The practice of saying no -- Sabbath -- The practice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 283.092 TAY

Lesage, Marla

Summary: "In this picture book, readers are introduced to all sorts of professionals and other people who wear masks in their daily lives and are reminded that wearing a mask to limit the spread of germs is an act of kindness."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LES

Roberts, Tomos

Summary: A narrator describes life before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the social and personal changes that followed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROB

Harwood, Richard C.

Summary: How do we bring people together when our society is breaking apart? What will it take to bridge our divides, overcome mistrust, and restore our belief that we can get things done together as Americans? How do we bring out the best in us? In Stepping Forward, Richard C. Harwood gives us a new and inspiring blueprint to rediscover what we share in common and actively build upon it. As a trusted...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.0973 HAR

Damm, Peter L.

Summary: Stories of a young boy's journey to adulthood in small town rural Upper Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. A funny, poignant, moving and beautifully written memoir about the challenges, mischief, fears and lessons of growing up as the youngest of five brothers and one sister, Catholic education, the natural world, trying to understand religious and adult mysteries, honor, family, truth and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAMM, PETER DAM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAMM DAM

Summary: Taproot Magazine is an ad-free, independent print publication celebrating food, farm, family, and craft. Our mission is to build and support the vibrant community of people participating in both the practical and fine arts, to craft handmade lives, by producing quality, unique, beautiful, positive, and heartfelt print media.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

8 available in Magazines - previous years, Call number: 2022-Issue 49 Refresh
Call number: 2022-Issue 50-Sow
Call number: 2022-Issue 51 Imagine
Call number: 2022-Issue 52 Savor
Call number: 2022-Issue 53 Amend
Call number: 2022-Issue 54 Commune
Call number: 2023-Issue 55 Lunar
Call number: 2023-Issue 57 Blue

Block, Peter

Summary: "The expanded and revised edition of Community tackles the hysteric rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world. In the second edition of Community, author Peter Block offers practical advice and uplifting stories as a way to reject the increasing pull towards isolation and fear of the stranger in a new world of constant connection. This book explores the benefits of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. a BK Business book 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307 BLO

Jones, Martha S.

Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 Jon

Paul, Chris

Summary: "The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel "Papa" Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B PAUL PAU

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