Summary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUPecinovsky, Teresa Kim
Summary: "You know God the Father, but God is your Mother too." With lyrical, rhyming text and exquisite illustrations, Mother God introduces readers to a dozen images of God inspired by feminine descriptions from Scripture. Children and adults alike will be in awe of the God who made them as they come to know her as a creative seamstress, generous baker, fierce mother bear, protective mother hen,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Strobel, Lee
Summary: "It's no coincidence that one of the most asked questions on any search engine is: 'Is God real?' When life feels overwhelming, we want to know if there really is a deity who loves us, knows us, and cares about what happens to us. Join investigative journalist and former atheist Lee Strobel on a quest to determine whether we can know with confidence that God is real. Lee Strobel's landmark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Bird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Navajo people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Navajo are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRTaubes, Gary.
Summary: This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.7 TAUTaubes, Gary.
Summary: Reveals the role of certain carbohydrates in today's obesity epidemic while denouncing calorie-based nutritional practices, in a report that includes coverage of such topics as genetics, the politics behind nutritional guidelines, and foods to eat and avoid.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2011
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Summary: Reveals the role of certain carbohydrates in today's obesity epidemic while denouncing calorie-based nutritional practices, and discusses genetics, the politics behind nutritional guidelines, and foods to eat and avoid.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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Summary: "Introduces young readers to the Cheyenne people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Cheyenne are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, Frederick A.
Summary: "Introduces young readers to the Apache people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Apache are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Comanche people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Comanche are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to the Seminole people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Algonquin people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Algonquins are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Iroquois people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Iroquois are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIROrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, lifelong knitter Peggy Orenstein set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 OREBird, F. A.
Summary: This book introduces young readers to the Nez Perce people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Nez Perce are keeping their culture alive today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to the Sioux people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRBird, F. A.
Summary: This book introduces young readers to the Cherokee people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Cherokee are keeping their culture alive today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Colorful photographs, a glossary, and an index are also included.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRYaremchuk, Olesya
Summary: "Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity is an award-winning exploration of both the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine: Czechs and Slovaks, Meskhetian Turks, Swedes, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Jews, 'Liptaks', Gagauzes, Germans, Vlachs, Poles, Crimean Tatars, and Armenians. Based on a combination of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ibidem-Verlag 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.831 YARCoyle, Finn
Summary: There are countless machines that help to keep our city clean. Everything from a garbage truck to a street sweeper has a very special job. Do you know what it is?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flowerpot Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDAvena, Nicole M.
Summary: "Many people blame sugar cravings on lack of willpower rather than accept that sugar is highly addictive-even more so than cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol. The problem isn't just dessert, but the fact that sugar is everywhere. Approximately 80% of products in supermarkets contain sugar, so it's unsurprising that many people struggle to eliminate it from their diets. In Sugarless, Dr. Nicole...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina - and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MORSummary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RELAnderson, Kendall
Summary: The Macro diet was created to make you lose weight without giving up your favorite foods, by achieving the so-called "energy balance." If you stick to your daily macro goals, you will automatically consume fewer calories, thus helping you lose weight. There are three macronutrients that make up every bite of food you eat: protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Although many foods contain all of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kendall Anderson 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 ANDRorrer, Candace
Summary: The Macro Friendly Cookbook for Busy Moms was created for busy women everywhere. I am all about easy meals that don’t take a long time to prepare. You will get over 60 pages of recipes that will give you high protein meals. Within the book, I tell you a little about my own journey and give you the calculation that I use to figure out my own macros. This book gives you all you need to transform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candace Rorrer 0000