Kessler, David A.
Summary: "Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food? Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 613.2 KESFonda, Jane
Summary: Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Jane Fonda offers a guide on living happily. Here she highlights stories from her own life and covers a variety of topics, including sex, food, and spirituality.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.3 FONBlabey, Aaron
Summary: Told in rhyming text, Brian tries to get his fellow piranhas to try his fruit and vegetable platter, but they all prefer meat--like those human feet dangling in the water.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BLAWare, Ruth
Summary: Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect: her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The author offers his view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what drives the economy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330 LEVKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.0973 KINDuhigg, Charles.
Summary: Award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: "Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa . . . oh, boy. You're in red-hot trouble."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: "As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GREENE, JAYSON GREBourdain, Anthony
Summary: A life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives listeners an introduction to some of Anthony Bourdain's favorite places. Supplementing Bourdain's words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris; a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 641.59 BOUMcGraw, Phillip C.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.85 McGraGrescoe, Taras
Summary: "The world can't sustain the way we eat today. Whether it's ultra-processed oils, factory-farmed meat, or monoculture wheat, industrial agriculture has increasingly dire consequences for the vibrancy of our plates, health, and planet. While some look to high-tech solutions, like lab-grown meat or transgenic produce, Taras Grescoe argues that the future of our food lies in the diversity of the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 641 GREBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 643.1 BRYSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEPollan, Michael.
Summary: An ecological and anthropological study of eating offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: 394.12 POLPollan, Michael
Summary: Michael Pollan elegantly brings together in a single narrative this unruly history, the story of the current resurgence in psychedelic research, and his own fantastic personal adventure with these substances. This is a brand new story about these incredible drugs, which today are demonstrating a remarkable usefulness in treating mental conditions such as PTSD, depression, and end-of-life anxiety.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615 POLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615 POLSchneider, Josh
Summary: A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Schneider 2012Kurchak, Sarah
Summary: Written by an autistic personal trainer, Work It Out busts myths about fitness while providing clear, actionable advice on how to: incorporate exercise into your daily life; build an adjustable workout plan for both good and bad mental health days; shake off the messages that say you₂re never doing enough; and celebrate all your achievements, including getting out of bed. Sarah Kurchak offers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 613.7 KURRogers, Susan
Summary: Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Susan Rogers leads readers to musical self-awareness. She explains that we each possess a unique "listener profile" based on our brain's natural response to seven key dimensions of any song. Whether your taste is esoteric or mainstream, Rogers guides readers to recognize their musical personality, and offers language to describe one's own unique taste.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 781.11 ROGBrennan-Jobs, Lisa
Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRENNAN-JOBS BREGoodman, Thea.
Summary: Follows a young couple over one life-changing weekend during which the husband flees lower Manhattan with his newborn daughter for a weekend in the Caribbean, while his wife tries to recapture who she was before the baby.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GOOSchwalbe, Will
Summary: "For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world, with all its noise and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SCHWALBE, WILL SchForman, Gayle
Summary: For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Afterward, surprised...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016