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Summary: In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed of dressing as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CAS

Lamothe, Matt

Summary: Follows the daily lives of seven children from around the world, including such places as Japan, India, Uganda, and Italy, and discusses how schools, meals, and play can be different or similar in different places in the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books, LLC 2017

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Summary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHE

Summers, Jordan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 PACIFIC CREST TRAIL SUM

Randall, Laura

Summary: Thoroughly updated and newly redesigned, this guide, originally published in 1971 and considered the "PCT Bible," starts at the Mexican border and guides you to Yosemite's beautiful backcountry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 PACIFIC CREST TRAIL RAN

Vanderklugt, Kyla

Summary: "That's something to crow about! Learn all about these genius birds in Kyla Vanderklugt's Science Comics: Crows, the latest volume in First Second's action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers! Did you know that crows make their own tools, lead complex social lives, and never forget a human face? Scientists are just beginning to unlock the secrets of the crow's brain...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 598.8 VAN

Fogg, Marnie

Summary: From the Victorian crinoline to Vivienne Westwood’s mini-crini, from Hervé Léger’s 1985 bandage dress to Christopher Kane’s 2006 neon revamp, these 100 glorious, groundbreaking dresses made fashion history. Through beautiful images, anecdotes, and analysis, The Dress looks at past styles and present-day reinterpretations, showing how design ideas have been reborn and referenced through time....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Goodman 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 FOG

Bathala, Neeti

Summary: Leena and her mom volunteer each summer to count the horseshoe crabs that visit their beach. With their dog Bobie at their sides, the duo spends a night on the shore surveying horseshoe crabs who have come to mate and lay eggs. Readers will learn valuable facts about these ancient animals and how they can get involved in the effort to conserve horseshoe crabs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbordale Publishing 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAT

Osborne, Robert A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9333 Osb

Strayed, Cheryl

Summary: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous thousand-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STRAYED, CHERL STR

Makos, Adam

Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMO

Summary: "As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIV indicates, it is an eclectic and constantly changing community. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUS

Ryan, Hank Phillippi

Summary: "One wrong word can ruin your life. No one knows that better than savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward, especially since she's been forced to handle a crisis of her own. Unfairly accused of having an affair with a powerful client, Arden's life and dreams are about to crash and burn. Then, Arden is given an ultimatum: she has just two weeks to save her career and her reputation. Is Cordelia...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC RYA

Mihalti, Eric Michael

Summary: Covers U.S. and Canadian models of Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis, for model years 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. Group 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Ford Crown Victoria

McKibben, Bill

Summary: At thirty-seven, celebrated journalist, writer, and environmentalist Bill McKibben decided to take a break from living the life of the mind to put himself to the ultimate test: devoting a year to training as a competitive cross-country skier. Consulting with personal trainers, coaches, and doctors at the US Olympic Center, he followed a rigorous training regime better suited to a world-class...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.93 MCK

Fenske, Jonathan

Summary: When Crabby gets sick, Plankton is determined to play doctor and take care of his friend, even if Crabby does not want the help--until Crabby realizes that he can get Plankton to do all of his household chores.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FEN

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: XCZone.tv 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.93 ADV

Colby, Jennifer

Summary: The 21st Century Junior Library introduces young readers to important core content. Simple activities encourage students to look, think, make a guess, ask questions, and create. The combination of reading and inquiring helps them develop the skills needed to master content and learn and succeed in the 21st century. -- back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Invent Colby

Summary: New research has shown that crows are among the most intelligent animals in the world, able to use tools as only elephants and chimpanzees do, able to recognize each other's voices and 250 distinct calls. Crow experts from around the world sing their praises, and present us with captivating new footage of crows as we have never seen them before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUR

Summary: Travel along the Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, through seven national parks and 24 national forests. You'll travel through California, Oregon and Washington, seeing what two to three hundred hikers who attempt the PCT each year see on their journey.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Video 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.904 PAC
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PAC

Lankford, Andrea

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Summary: "As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Ahuja, Masuma

Summary: "Journalist Masuma Ahuja introduces us to 31 teenage girls from 29 countries. Through diary entries and photographs, they share their own stories of growing up and show what ordinary girlhood is like all over the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 AHU

LeVine, Robert Alan

Summary: "In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Le Vine

Small, Meredith F.

Summary: "This is not a parenting advisor but instead a revealing perspective on how and why we raise children as we do." --Booklist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SMA

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