Black Thought
Summary: Through vivid vignettes, the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots tells dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him, each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma and loss, illuminating the redemptive power of the upcycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK THOUGHT BLATrought, Josh
Summary: For almost twenty years, D Acres of New Hampshire has challenged and expanded the common definition of a farm. As an educational center that researches, applies, and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming, D Acres serves more than just a single function to its community. By turns it is a hostel for travelers to northern New England, a training center for everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 TROFlack, Marjorie
Summary: A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1961
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Summary: Meet the Greek gods as you have never seen them--in LEGO form! Enjoy these fascinating myths, reimagined through elaborate scenes and colorful LEGO bricks in one thousand color photographs! This book shares a unique retelling of some of the most widely known and loved Greek myths, from the stories of Athena, Poseidon, and Pandora to the twelve labors of Hercules. Watch Athena spring from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 BRABlank, Harrod.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Books 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708 BLABrack, Amanda
Summary: "Every LEGO-loving kid has at least one huge bin of bricks the sets are built, dismantled, and typically never built again and this book gives them dozens of ways to reuse them in fun projects that range from easy to challenging. Featuring a simple yet elegant mosaic technique, step-by-step instructions, and full-color photographs for making 25 cool two-dimensional pictures, Amazing Brick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Point Books 2018
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Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREFought, Leigh
Summary: "In his extensive writings--editorials, speeches, autobiographies--Frederick Douglass revealed little about the private side of his life. His famous autobiographies were very much in the service of presenting and advocating for himself. But Douglass had a very complicated array of relationships with women: white and black, wives and lovers, mistresses-owners, and sisters and daughters. And this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 FOUBlock, Jennifer.
Summary: An in-depth look at the medical care legislated and received by women giving birth in the United States explores the use of drugs to induce or prevent labor, the increasing trend toward cesarean sections, and women's right to choose the place and manner of birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19 BLOBlock, Robert
Summary: More than 500 color photos display marbles of all types, including Indians, Aggies, Steelies, transitionals, M.F. Christensen & Son, Akro Agate and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.762 BLOFlack, Roberta
Summary: "Legendary singer Roberta Flack reflects on her early childhood and her love of music"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG FLAFlack, Roberta
Summary: "Legendary singer Roberta Flack reflects on her early childhood and her love of music"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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Summary: Gluck presents her 11th collection of poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GLULauck, Jennifer.
Summary: The author continues the story of her life, relating her journey into adulthood while confronting the demons of her traumatic childhood and considering the troubled soul of her brother Bryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.033 LAURoberts, Blain.
Contents: Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty contests in the rural South -- Thrones of their own : body and beauty contests among Southern black women -- Bodies politic : beauty and racial crisis in the civil rights era -- Conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of North Carolina Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 ROBBlank, Arthur (Arthur M.)
Summary: "The Home Depot cofounder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS's Atlanta United shares a vision and a roadmap for values-based business. Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. And he should know. Together with cofounder Bernie Marcus, Blank built The Home Depot from an idea and a dream to a $50 billion-dollar company, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLANK, ARTHUR M. BLABolick, Kate
Summary: On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 BOLBoyack, Connor
Summary: "Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle in their exciting third adventure, as they uncover the curious mystery of how a powerful creature is stealing their grandparents' hard-earned savings, and how the twins are also being controlled by the same creature--without even knowing it! In honor of the classic The creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, this book introduces children to the history and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libertas Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BOYKluck, Michelle
Summary: Instruction on reflexology massage to increase energy, ease muscle tension, pain and stress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8224 MASPuffinton, Brick
Summary: Explore the whimsical world of a majestic unicorn! Join the fuzzy little mythical pony on a quest to find the most magical creatures of them all–a butterfly! This interactive story features a cute and fuzzy little finger puppet unicorn toy built into the book encouraging interactive play, hand-eye coordination, sensory and language development. Babies and toddlers learn best when they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PUFBlazo, Alby
Summary: Fancy Fastwater dances through cities, curving around the bends of life, never settling anywhere for the reader to become too entrenched. Each beat in this discography of a traveler washes over a moment, yet will sit with the reader for a lifetime. This collection of tightly-knit poetry interweaves nature with urban infrastructure against the backdrop of complicated relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Love, Luna Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BLAByock, Ira.
Summary: A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life. It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BYOGlick, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Diabetes Association 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 GLIPlanck, Nina
Summary: "When Nina Planck toured to promote her two earlier books, Real Food and Real Food for Mother and Baby, the question she heard most was, "When are you going to write a cookbook?" At long last, The Real Food Cookbook is here.In a dietary landscape overfull with low-carb bread and dubious advice about triglycerides, Planck is revolutionary in her complete embrace of a more old-fashioned and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014