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Bereavement Fungi Grief Individuality Ketogenic diet Memory Nutrition Raw food diet Reducing diets RefugeesSummary: A look at five extraordinary homes and the people who inhabit them. The movie interweaves their stories in a way that makes a person think about the meaning of home and the place of individuality in society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOMVisson, Lynn.
Contents: Zakuski -- Soups -- Pirogs and pancakes -- Fish -- Meat and poultry -- Vegetable, grain, egg, and cheese dishes -- Desserts -- Sauces, jams, and drinks -- "My father's vishnevka."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 VISPappas, Dina
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Martingale 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 PAPGianferrari, Maria
Summary: "Fungi are all around us. They root and fruit and twist and twine. The mycelium roots spread below ground while the mushroom fruits pop above the earth. Some are edible, and some are poisonous. Some help keep forests communicate, others recycle decaying matter. But all across the world, fungi are growing. Discover when, how, where, and why in this poetic and illuminating nonfiction picture book"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.54 DidioSisson, Mark
Summary: Presents a program for improving health that consists of a natural foods diet, a fitness plan that balances low- and high-intensity exercises, and lifestyle changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Primal Nutrition 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SISAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's twenty-first-century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADIAnastasio, Dina
Summary: Introduces facts about the Super Bowl, including the history of the game, famous players throughout its history, and the spectacle of the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ANACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Sport What AnastasioAnastasio, Dina
Summary: "Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world. Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everythingchanged in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 384.8 ANAGachman, Dina
Summary: "A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author and journalist whose experience with two devastating losses inspired her to bring comfort and understanding to others. Since losing her mother to cancer in 2018 and her sister to alcoholism less than three years later, author and journalist Dina Gachman has dedicated herself to understanding what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 GACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.9 GACVinton, Nathaniel.
Summary: "Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the roof of the Alps, where the sports legends are born. Then came a fledgling class of American racers that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.93 VINBowers, Vivien
Summary: Takes readers on a tour of Canada from coast to coast with zany hosts, Moose and Goose. Shows a nation full of fascinating facts, peculiar places, hilarious histories, and perplexing people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owl Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 971 BOWDidion, Joan.
Summary: The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America— particularly California—in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DIDBakst, Dina
Summary: Provides practical tips for navigating the workplace while pregnant or being a new parent, covering such topics as morning sickness, maternity leave, and discrimination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BAKDina, Karin.
Summary: Rick and Karin Dina are both healthcare practitioners and long-time followers of a raw food diet. They have provided scientific information on how to construct nutritious raw diets through their Science of Raw Food Nutrition classes to hundreds of students. This book is a compendium of the latest information from peer-reviewed research and their own clinical experience on why raw diets are so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Living Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.26 DINNayeri, Dina
Summary: In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers. What is it like to be a refugee? It is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 NAYAvison, Brigid.
Summary: In a question and answer format addresses basic physiology, such as why one has bones, why one needs food, and how the body grows.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612 AVIAnastasio, Dina
Summary: "Readers will learn about the Eiffel Tower, the beloved and iconic symbol of Paris, France, and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Set up for the World's Fair in 1889, the Eiffel Tower greets millions of visitors each year who climb up its wrought-iron stairs, ride its glass elevators, and enjoy the wonderful views of the city spread out below it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHE BASKETNayeri, Dina
Summary: "The Waiting Place is an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author's reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.9 NAYRudick, Dina
Summary: A sustainable source of ideas to help your children learn the ins and outs of animal husbandry, Barnyard Kids encourages children to get outside, enjoy nature, and reap the benefits of their hard work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2015
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK INNRubio, Salva
Summary: Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: Presents the life and times of the African American preacher who led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURSisson, Frank
Summary: Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Patton's death, a Third Army soldier's firsthand account of his service beside the history-shaping general relates his participation in key events, including the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020