Shrier, Abigail
Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES. Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria--severe discomfort in one's biological sex--was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2021
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Summary: Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRShriver, Maria.
Summary: After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Religion ShriverAdams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADABalfe, Abigail
Summary: The author-illustrator shares her journey of growing up autistic in a confusing "normal" world, all the while missing some important information about herself, in this illustrated and completely unique book that provides crucial information about autism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BALFE BALDean, Abigail
Summary: "Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can't seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by tragedy, they find their futures may be defined by more than just their good intentions. Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb, defined by poignant traditions passed from generation to generation. Marty is a golden girl here, albeit one who quietly chafes against the legacy of her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEPogrebin, Abigail.
Summary: "The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality. Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is many things, but the one that has defined her most profoundly is 4zidentical twin.4y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.44 POGStokes, Abigail
Summary: Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby Stokes is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbiesspecifically older newbiesturn to when they want to become digitally literate. And her book, Is This Thing On?, is as smart, comprehensive, reassuring, and jargon-free as she is: the epitome of user-friendly. And it is now completely revised and updated to keep pace with the fast-changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004 STOThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Contents: Winter restlessness -- Moon's distrust -- Silence between our houses -- Foggy deck -- Lifeless indoors -- Exile
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cryd Chamber
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Contents: Who + what (3:57) -- Protéïformunité (5:02) -- Une autre attente (2:42) -- The dash (3:07) -- Don't forget you're mine (4:38) -- Panser l'inacceptable (4:07) -- The inner smile (4:48) -- La nageuse nue (3:56) -- New moon (4:07) -- Cloud 6 (5:21).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShuker, Karl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 SHUStriker, Randy
Summary: INTERLIBRARY LOAN
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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Summary: Learn all about dachshunds and how to care for one as your pet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2011
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Summary: "For readers of Room and Dear Edward, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: "Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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Summary: Nick O'Flaherty and Kelly Abbott had their happy ending in sight when a friend's call for help almost ended with them losing it to the blade of a knife. Now, in the aftermath of near-disaster, both men are trying to heal and move on. Moving on together, though, is harder than either of them realized it would be. Kelly struggles with simply being a lover instead of the Doc, while Nick is mired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riptide Publishing 2015
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Wheatley, Abigail
Summary: This is a non-fiction book for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like to live in a castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623 WHEWheatley, Abigail.
Summary: Introduces the study of human material remains from the past; describes the materials archaeologists examine and the techniques they use; illustrates important finds by continent; and includes a timeline and glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub.] 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930.1 WHEBarnette, Abigail.
Summary: Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn't know why he's been set up with Penny Parker. She's unrelentingly positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced-everything Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility of a life he'd given up hoping for . . . with a woman he would never have expected.Contains mature themes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Beal, Abigail.
Summary: Introduces German shepherds, discussing their history, temperament, physical characteristics, and the care they need as pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7376 BEARayner, Abigail
Summary: When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back ... But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022