Rudd, Paul

Summary: After losing his job in New York, George and his wife Linda decide to try living an alternative lifestyle at the Elysium commune where nudism and free love abound.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAN

Coyle, McKayla

Summary: Do you ever feel gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don't fit in? You might be a goblin! That means that your imperfections and idiosyncrasies are the most awesome things about you, and you can build a more harmonious life by accepting and honoring them. Coyle shows you how to take inspiration from the frogs, fungi, moss, rocks and dirt that goblins love. She includes life advice for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 645 COY

Summary: Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ENL

Summary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAP

Summary: Ako Tamaki looks to her fellow high school friends for help in separating real life from her life in the fantasy online gaming world of Legendary Age, or LA.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME AND

DePaulo, Bella M.

Summary: "A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America. Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our "lifespaces"--the way we live and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books/Beyond Words 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 DEP

Summary: A troubled young girl must choose between a carefree and exciting life in the city and a hard-work, no frills country lifestyle in order to learn who she really is and what she wants out of life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD URB

Summary: Hinamatsuri contains episodes one through twelve directed by Kei Oikawa. Yakuza member Yoshifumi Nitta's way of life takes a turn for the absurd when a strange, telekinetic young girl named Hina falls onto his head. Now he's stuck caring for this socially awkward psychic weirdo while struggling to continue his normal criminal lifestyle. With a huge lineup of unique characters, hilarious antics,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME HIN

Calhoun, Ada.

Summary: St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 CAL

Emerzian, Matthew

Summary: Takes readers on a 52-week journey of reconnecting with what really matters, finding happiness and joy, and making a difference in the world. Each Monday offers readers a mindful moment to read and process, and provides several opportunities for them to engage. The back of the book also includes a journal-entry prompt and a conversation starter for each week.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simple Truths 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 EME

Quinn, Carrot

Summary: "After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunchof straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUINN, CARROT QUI

Sundeen, Mark

Summary: Traces the path and philosophy of Daniel Suelo, who left his entire life savings of thirty dollars in a phone booth in 2000 and has lived a happy, fulfilled life in the caves of Utah without earning or spending money since that time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUELO, DANIEL SUN

Woldoff, Rachael

Summary: "Digital nomads are knowledge workers who actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their work remotely, travelling far and wide, and moving as often as they like. They have left their local coffee shops behind and now proudly posttheir "office of the day" photos from exotic locales, but what do their lives really look like? This book takes readers into an expatriate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.7 WOL

Sundeen, Mark

Summary: A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 SUN

Saury, Alain.

Summary: This practical and poetic "survival manual" is the first English translation of the French masterpiece of living wild in the world and creating a permaculture. Back to the Wild is your source for everything from cartography to hunting and dressing wild game to cooking without a kitchen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Process Media 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 SAU

Galland, Leo

Summary: Takes an in-depth look at how we can balance immunity through nutrition and lifestyle in order to reverse allergies without drugs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 GAL

Williams, Dee

Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WIL

Summary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACR

Coltrane, John

Summary: Featuring the Classic Quartet, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, and recorded at the end of a two-week run at Birdland, the music on this album represents one of the most influential groups in music history both performing in a musical style it had perfected. Unknown until 2004 and unheard until now.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COL

Summary: Irene is a single career woman in her 40s with a job to die for. As the secret critic, she checks into the world's finest hotels to assess their standards. Her elegant, unattached lifestyle affords her the freedom to jet around the globe at a moment's notice to experience a world of luxury, but doesn't leave her with much of a personal life. After a chance meeting, she's compelled to re-examine...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIV
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIV

Summary: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a fifteen-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott's estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIL

Williams, Dee

Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WIL

Calexico (Musical group)

Contents: El mirador -- Harness the wind -- Cumbia peninsula -- Then you might see -- Cumbia del polvo -- El Paso -- The el burro song -- Liberada -- Turquoise -- Constellation -- Rancho Azul -- Caldera.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAL