Hayes, Shannon.
Summary: "Radical Homemakers is a book that looks at men and women across the United States who have opted to focus their lives on home and hearth as a political and ecological act; who have chosen to center their lives around family and community not only for personal fulfillment, but as a way to bring about cultural change. It explores what domesticity can look like in an era that has benefited from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Left to Write Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.85 HAYSummary: A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family HarryCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARLewis, Percy Williams
Summary: Ebenezer Williams was born June 6, 1769. He died October 9, 1844 in Painesville, Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis 1974
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 WILLIAMS LEWPhelan, Thomas W.
Summary: "The solution to the overload many modern moms feel, The Manager Mom Epidemic shows you how to build a happier family by firing yourself from the 'house manager' position and making each member of the family, from your husband to your youngest child, feel responsible for helping make family life run smoothly. Easy-to-understand and accessible for even the most overwhelmed parent, this book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 PHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 PHESummary: Inept, but lovable, Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. In order to make ends meet and keep the family together, Salman must take on a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot. This proves to be more challenging than he originally thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KABCox, Meg.
Summary: Offers instructions or "recipes" for creating new family rituals or traditions, in categories such as "holidays," "family festivities and ceremonies," and "rites of passage."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394 COXBancroft, Lundy
Summary: In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 BanCastle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CASTumulty, Karen
Summary: "The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REAGAN, NANCY TUMBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BARBradshaw, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Will Caludia's pregnancy make her any less hot? Why is Sean dressed as J.J. Bodybuddy? Who is displaying nude photos of Uncle Eddie? What is the dirty secret of Jimmy's Sciencenauts club? How far will Lily go to make Brad jealous? Why does the entire neighborhood think the Finnertys are trashy? And what is Sister Helen doing in a lingerie store?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GROTaber, Sara Mansfield.
Contents: Preface -- pt. 1. The Sea -- book 1: Dragons (Taipei, Taiwan, 1961-1962) -- The Wall -- The Chicken Village -- Whispers -- Night Soil -- book 2: Gum (Bethesda, Maryland, 1962-1964) -- Cross my Heart -- Jap -- The Tomb -- American -- book 3: Rainlight (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1964-1968) -- Klompen -- Dutchies -- My Father's Bath -- The Pistol -- Nicole -- Home -- pt. 2. The Shore -- book 4:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TABER, SARA MANSFIELD TABWard, Vicky
Summary: "The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WARWestervelt, Amy
Summary: Examines the history of American ideas about motherhood, how those ideas have impacted all women whether or not they have children, and calls for changes in workplace policies, cultural norms, and personal attitudes about motherhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 WESSheindlin, Judy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.8 SHESummary: For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday TKantor, Jodi
Summary: Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as the Obamas try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA FAMILY KANSummary: Season 7 of The Simpsons brought fans the answer to the question 'Who shot Mr. Burns?' They also got to go rock out at Homerpalooza and watch as Lisa became a vegetarian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIMSummary: Mr. Brooks is a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father, and a devoted husband. He is seemingly perfect, but he has a secret. He is also the notorious Thumbprint Killer, and no one has ever suspected it until now. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MR.Hererra, Hayden
Summary: "A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERERRA, HAYDEN HERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem HerreraSummary: Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007