Summary: The free-spirited UglyDolls confront what it means to be different, struggle with their desire to be loved, and ultimately discover that you don't have to be perfect to be amazing because who you truly are is what matters most.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UgHinrichs, Alexandra S. D.
Summary: "Children across the U.S. honor their spirited uniqueness as well as the beautiful, diverse landscapes within the National Parks-lands that also represent the country's complicated history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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Summary: "Sly as a fox and swift as a bird, Lou Alice is determined to leave each day a little more beautiful than she found it. But when she moves away from her little house, no one in town notices she's gone. No one, that is, except a little girl, who sets out to carry on Lou Alice's work. But doing so is not enough. Can the girl find a way of her own to make the world a little more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: George- The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus is a feature documentary as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Contradictory interviews with artists, including Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik, and inventive sound and screen design, shape this rich portrait of a visionary artist. Dedicated to cooperative...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEOWenzel, Brendan
Summary: Told in rhyming verse, a stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is, surrounded by grass, dirt, and water, an unchanging certainty in the world. To some animals it's a pebble, To others it's a hill, and to others, a home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Academy of Art 1997
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Summary: Perfect for curious explorers and aspiring artists, this beginning drawing book will show kids how to observe and draw their favorite animals and the natural world in a fun, interactive style! Popular YouTube drawing instructor Brad Woodard, founder of the Brave Kids Art Club show, shares his easy-to-follow lessons and tips and tricks for getting outside and drawing cool stuff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Nook 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Enlightening documentary about the Russian avant-garde and the role art played in the Russian Revolution. Explores the works and careers of important Russian artists, including Chagall, Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Malevich, and many others. Includes historical reenactments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REVAristotle
Summary: Contains two works by ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, including "Poetics," a critique of the literature of his time with reference to the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; and "Rhetoric," a discussion of the role of language in achieving precision and clarity of thought.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 808.5 ARIArnosky, Jim.
Summary: Provides drawings of landscapes, plants, animals, and other aspects of nature, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.83 ARNReibstein, Mark.
Summary: Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "Information about why certain people, animals and things are considered "cute" and the scientific background, for children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2019
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Summary: Nicholas Fox Weber, in this deft, entertaining, and brilliant rumination on art and technology, writes of the iPhone as the essence of the Bauhaus principles of form following function--of honesty of design and materials that reflect the true nature of objects and buildings, favoring linear and geometrical forms; adhering to line, shape, and colors; synthesizing art to modern times; the fusion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 WEBSummary: Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.2 ARNCole, K. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 COLMcAnulty, Stacy.
Summary: Spirited girls offer a quirky take on traditional advice of how beautiful girls should behave, showing how their own individuality and talent make them beautiful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Pr Book Pub. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCAPrentice, Jessica
Summary: Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment. In Full Moon Feast, accomplished chef and passionate food activist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from the midwinter Hunger Moon and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 STEStockland, Patricia M.
Summary: Do you need to get something done fast? Maybe you can use loops to get it done! Learn about the codes all around us in Loops: Repeat, Repeat! Sing along as you learn to Code It! This hardcover book comes with CD and online music access.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J WHITE LOOSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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Summary: An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber. 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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Summary: In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 111 KELOliver, Mary
Summary: A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016