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Summary: "The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse in every sphere of society, including the church. But all too often, churches have been complicit in protecting abusers, reinforcing patriarchal power dynamics, and creating cultures of secrecy, shame, and silence. Disclosing candid stories of abuse, pastor and survivor Ruth Everhart offers God's hope to survivors while shining a light on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 EVEEberhart, Dikkon.
Summary: He was destined from birth for literary greatness."If only his father hadn't stolen all the words."As the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate Richard Eberhart, Dikkon Eberhart grew up surrounded by literary giants. Frequent dinner guests included, among others, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath.To the world, they were literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBERHART, DIKKON EBEAuth, Jeannine.
Summary: Emmy's mom has a drinking problem that is starting to affect Emmy. Former friends aren't allowed to associate with her anymore, and Emmy doesn't know where to turn for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morningtide Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUTRoth, Rita.
Summary: Presents a collection of thirteen Sephardic folk tales based on tales collected by the Israel Folktales Archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Publication Society 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ROTEberhart, Mark E.
Summary: This book explores what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. When author Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosion--which prompted him to worry that when he cut into anything, he could unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.112 EBERath, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallup Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 RATSepetys, Ruta
Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta
Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 SEPCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 SEPRutz, Miriam Easton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712.5 RUTSepetys, Ruta
Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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Summary: Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers, an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company, 101st Airborne, during World War II. Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sergeant Forrest Guth, Alexander crosses an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ALEEberhardt, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 EBECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 EBERath, Linda K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperResource 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.41 RATPutz, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine Pub. Co. 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.829 PUTRitz, David.
Summary: Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKLIN, ARETHA RITRude, Emelyn
Summary: "Emelyn Rude details the ascendancy of chicken from its domestication nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.66 RUDBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J629.1309 BURGillman, Melanie
Summary: "Explore the story of Amelia Earhart as she embarks on her second and final journey around the globe. A story of determination, heart, and courage, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into the daring grit of the aviation pioneer--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that fly off the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC GILWilson, Jennifer Lane
Summary: "Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But the dresses women had to wear at the time made those dreams seem almost impossible. Amelia didn't let that stop her. As a young aviator breaking records and expectations, she learned to fly her plane with flair. Later, she dared to create a trendsetting fashion line for active women like herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILSchmidt, Gary D
Summary: Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHButz, Bob
Summary: From a vivid observation of conventional embalming to a helping hand in digging a grave in one of the scores of 'natural burial preserves' popping up all across America, Butz offers a witty and detailed account of his adventure into the current trend of green burials. As he weighs in on the emotional and biodegradable benefits of being buried in a blanket, shroud, or hand-made coffin crafted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spirituality & Health 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 363.75 BUTGupta, Ruchi
Summary: "A world-renowned researcher and physician offers the first book to identify the entire spectrum of food-related health conditions, from allergy to sensitivity, and what we can do about it. Allergies are an epidemic--but they don't have to be. Every day,more than five hundred people in the US go to the emergency room following a bad allergic reaction to food; 1 in 10 people have food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 GUPRuhl, Jenny
Summary: Based on the award winning Bloodsugar101.com web site, this book explains what peer-reviewed research published in top medical journals has to say about: What is a normal blood sugar? How does diabetes develop? What really causes diabetes? What blood sugar levels cause complications? Must you deteriorate? What diet is right for you? How can you make that diet work? What medications are safe?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Technion Books 2016