Summary: Friends navigate interpersonal relationships and cross the country in search of an ideal connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHOTurkle, Sherry.
Summary: In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 TURCampbell, Sherrie
Summary: "Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2024
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Summary: "Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation ShettyBranch, Shelly.
Summary: Draws on expert commentary and the reminiscences of those who knew her best to consider how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis would have tackled twenty-first-century challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 BRAMahurin, Shelby
Summary: "Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou's, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy MahurinPatterson, Kerry.
Summary: Offers techniques for communicating effectively in difficult and important situations to achieve positive results.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation PattersonCohn, Rachel.
Summary: Although they have been friends and neighbors all their lives, straight Naomi and gay Ely find their relationship severely strained during their freshman year at New York University.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COHSummary: Can the American family be defined? Today's isolated nuclear families, some with unmarried or same-sex parents, challenge traditional notions. This video explores the evolution of new family types and what they mean for the future.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Sibling relationships present complex issues. This video untangles the inner dynamics of those relationships, with a focus on birth order and its role in personality development.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: New research points to the role that a father plays in his child's IQ development, social adaptation, and even the stability of that child's eventual marriage. This video offers a fascinating look at today's father, and what he can and does mean to his kids.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Han, Jenny
Summary: Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANManly, Carla Marie
Summary: Sometimes we have huge expectations for the ideal relationship, but dating isn't about being perfect or catching the perfect partner; it's all about creating compassionate self-awareness and stronger self-esteem. A must-read for daters, this no-nonsense guide from clinical psychologist Carla Marie Manly, PhD, takes the guesswork out of dating with real-life examples, the latest research, and 33...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Familius LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.77 MANJones, Christianne C.
Summary: Harrison is a boy who loves life and likes to share with others, but as he grows older the people around him are finding that he stands too close and maybe hugs a little too much--until his father teaches him the Space Saver rhyme, a method for determining just the right amount of space to leave between himself and others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018