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Summary: The comprehensive guide to the 2023–2024 ACT test―including 8 genuine, full-length practice tests. The Official ACT Prep Guide 2023–2024 book includes six authentic ACT tests―all of which contain the optional writing test―so you get maximum practice before your test date. These full-length practice tests are also available on the Wiley Online Platform and mobile app alongside two additional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378.1662 OFFSummary: The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOWSummary: "Get inspired--and prepared--for your best life at 50+. Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball--whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT
Warren, Elizabeth V.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Studio in association with Museum of American Folk Art 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 WARAlexander, Matthew
Summary: A U.S. military interrogator describes his work in Iraq and his innovative approach that replaces torture with empathy, a procedure that he used to gain the intelligence information required to bring down Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ALEOrtner, Nick
Summary: Do YOU have the magic breath? Let's see... Take a deeeeeep breath in... and BLOW it out.... .and like magic, you can feel better just by breathing! Sometimes it's hard to feel happy. But with this interactive picture book, children breathe along as they learn how to make angry or sad thoughts disappear. In a world that is sometimes too busy, with too many things going on, My Magic Breath will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORTNakazawa, Keiji.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gasp of San Francisco 0000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARWalsh, B. Timothy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8526 WALSpaceship Media (Organization)
Summary: "Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can complete strangers representing every point along the political divide engage in civil and productive discourse on the topic of gun control?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GUNBurnham, Gracia.
Summary: Presents a firsthand account of the kidnapping of two American missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines, a yearlong ordeal that ended with the death of the author's husband, Martin Burnham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.9048 BUROhio Family Historians (Organization)
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. F. Harshman 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1V
Summary: "The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 VSummary: Bestselling British author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend Captain James Cook as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2013
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV CAPSummary: A film about Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history. Paralleling Assange's rise and fall with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the troubled young soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, the film discusses transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: Rick McKay filmed over one hundred of Broadway and Hollywood's greatest stars. In their own words they tell how they came to New York and created this legendary century in American theatre, thereby preserving the memories of historic Broadway performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dada Films/RCA Victor/BMG 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROAlt, Carol
Summary: A collection of raw food recipes features ideas for meals, appetizers, desserts, and drinks, and offers advice on shopping for raw foods, purchasing kitchen equipment, preparing ingredients, and stocking up on food staples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.265 ALTAlt, Carol
Summary: Introduces fifty fast and easy recipes for raw food dishes for every meal of the day, accompanied by information on the health benefits of eating raw foods, tips on eating out, and a raw foods shopping list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 ALTAlt, Carol
Summary: In her first fully illustrated lifestyle book, bestselling author, supermodel, and TV host Carol Alt shows readers how to approach all aspects of life with energy and vitality—from diet and fitness, to beauty and fashion. Drawing on her years of experience as a raw food advocate and ambassador for a mindful, health-focused lifestyle, Carol guides readers of all ages with simple, effective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.26 ALTSonnie, Amy
Summary: "Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 SONSummary: A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CITLópez-Alt, J. Kenji
Summary: "The obsessive mastermind behind one of the decade's best-selling cookbooks returns with the definitive English-language guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok. J. Kenji López-Alt's debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionized home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods. And for fast, fresh cooking for his family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wonderful collection of essays written by today's queer heroes, featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. In 2016, model and queer activist Jack Guinness decided that the LGBTQ+ community desperately needed to be reminded of its long and glorious history of stardom, and he was spurred to action. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUERussell, Sharman Apt
Summary: "An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. From the much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one fourth of the world's children--one in four--are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021