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Summary: "With updated statistics, facts, and real-life stories, this second edition educates teens about Earth's water crisis and gives them tools and inspiration to transform their ideas into action as they plan and take meaningful action to protect and restore our planet's water system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 577.7 KAYManne, Kate
Summary: "The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it-from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 MANKaye, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 KAYKaye, Lenny
Summary: Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 KAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6609 KAYManne, Kate
Summary: "An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 MANDaynes, Katie
Summary: The creative writer's handbook is divided into sections covering different aspects of the writing process - coming up with ideas, planning, punctuation and grammar - as well as advice on different forms of writing, including stories, blogs, non-fiction and poetry. Throughout, there are helpful tips and suggestions, internet links and quotations from well known authors to illustrate different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808 DAYKane, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSan Francisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 KANHarden, Kathryn Paige
Summary: "A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in waysthat matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 HARHuckelbridge, Dane
Summary: A history of bourbon traces its origins in the backwoods of Appalachia to the multi-billion dollar international bourbon whiskey industry today and introduces the cast of characters central to its creation and development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.252 HUCBrown, Kate (Kathryn L.)
Summary: "A chilling expos©♭ of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Governments and journalists tell us that though Chernobyl was "the worst nuclear disaster in history," a reassuringly small number of people died (44), and nature recovered. Yet, drawing on a decade of fine-grained archival research and interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.17 BROPickels, Dwayne E.
Summary: Examines the history of Scotland's clans by establishing their origins, probing the highpoints of their heyday, considering alignments among them, and identifying their mottoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.15 PICZanglein, Jayne E.
Summary: ""Don't take women when you go exploring!" In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, the president of the Explorers Club, told hundreds of female students at Barnard College that women and exploration could never mix. He obviously didn't know a thing about either...The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the women who broke apart the stuffy men's club and founded the Society of Woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 ZANBaker, Wayne E.
Summary: "University of Michigan Professor and cofounder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life's most critical skills: the ability to ask for help. Often, there is a simple and seemingly obvious act standing between us and success: asking for the help and resources we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overworked and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.101 BAKPitman, Gayle E
Summary: "This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 306.76 PITPitman, Gayle E.
Summary: A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020
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Summary: Describes the orbit, rotation, temperature, and surface formations of the planet Mercury and the probe Mariner X that took pictures of it in 1974 and 1975.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 523.41 BRIBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: Describes the history, equipment, safety tips, and competitive riding of mountain bikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.6 BRIKatz, Anne (Anne Jennifer)
Summary: "Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Each chapter tells the story of a man and his partner dealing with this cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Fully updated and comprehensive, this book educates and informs partners on the latest studies and findings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 KATBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: "Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.845 BRIBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALVBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: "A juvenile biography of the famous Native American woman who helped the Jamestown settlers"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POCCase, Anne
Summary: "This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 CASKelly, Mark E.
Summary: El astronauta Mark Kelly voló con "ratonautas" en su primer vuelo espacial a bordo del transbordador Endeavour en 2001. Ratonauta cuenta la historia de un ratoncito que lo que más quiere es viajar al espacio exterior. El ratoncito trabaja tan duro como los ratones más grandes para mostrar que está listo para la misión...¡y es escogido para el vuelo! Mientras están en el espacio, los astronautas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021