Faderman, Lillian.
Summary: A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 FADFaderman, Lillian
Summary: Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk’s assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history. Twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILK, HARVEY FADFaderman, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 FADFaderman, Lillian
Summary: What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God's plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 FADFaderman, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 FADBiederman, Felix
Summary: "The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated--politically, culturally, and economically--by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the Democrats and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 BIEPeerman, Gordon
Contents: Big mind, big medicine -- The cry for help -- Beyond belief -- Quiet ambition -- An instrument of peace -- Meeting our edges -- Beginning anew -- The dharma of dying -- Mobile loaves and fishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skylight Paths Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 PEEBiederman, Marcia
Summary: The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included work at a Mormon mission in Germany at a time when the church was cooperating with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2019
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Summary: Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America's presidents as authors--and offers a delightful new window into the public and private lives of our highest leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 FEHLederman, Leon M.
Summary: Explains the concept of symmetry and its ramifications for art, music, and life on Earth, describing how symmetry is found everywhere in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LEDEdelman, Hope.
Summary: Edelman shares her own painful story and the stories of many other women who, as children or adults, lost their mothers. She explains the stages of grief and adjustment. She considers the secondary effects that can occur: the girl-child filling the lost mother's role at home for father and younger siblings. If you've lost your mother, you no longer have to face it alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 EDEEdelman, Hope.
Summary: Examines the effects of maternal loss on the way in which adult daughters parent their own children, blending memoirs, interviews, research, and anecdotes to explore what happens to motherless women during the child-rearing years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 EDEBiederman, Marcia
Summary: "In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of "doctors" well known to police throughout New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BIELao, She
Summary: Stories by a Chinese writer. They range from A Man Who Doesn't Lie, which is a caricature of a habitual liar, to The Grand Opening, on a hospital which gives VD patients injections of tea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1999
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Summary: From the creator of the Pussyhat Project comes a manifesto for every woman to create her own distinct and original path to joy, success, and impact. On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly found its place on the cover of TIME and the New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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Summary: "The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment-the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these beneficial animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2020
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Summary: Describes how electricity is conducted and follows its route from a power plant to the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 621.319 SUESze, Arthur
Summary: "From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2019
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Summary: Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and present-day status of the various native peoples that inhabited the eastern woodlands since before the coming of the Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.4 YULEdelman, Hope
Summary: "A validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel "stuck," why that's normal, and how shifting a perception of grief can help us grow--from the New York Times bestselling author of Motherless Daughters Shouldn't I be over this by now? Why do I still feel the pain? Because of the common assumption that grief should be time-limited, too many of us believe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 EDEEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDEAlderman, Tracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publication 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8523 AlderAlderman, Sharon D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.14 ALDFetterman, Lisa Q.
Summary: Sous vide has been a popular cooking technique in restaurants for years, offering tender and succulent dishes cooked to perfection, but until recently home cooks were unable to re-create these at home due to the restrictive cost and size of the sous vide machine. Now, with the advent of portable and affordable sous vide machines, this method is fast becoming one of the hottest trends in home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2016