Booth, Char
Summary: Whether or not "instruction" appears in their job titles, librarians are often in the position of educating their users, colleagues, and peers to successfully locate and evaluate information. Because MLIS education tends to offer less-than-comprehensive preparation in pedagogy and instructional design, this book tackles the challenge of effective teaching and training head-on. In this book the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.7 BOOBarss, Patchen
Summary: Encourages readers to examine and question the patterns that arise in nature, exploring such patterns as branching, spinning, and spiraling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 516 BARLarson, Kirsten W.
Summary: "Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne was the first person to discover what burns at the heart of stars. But she didn't start out as the groundbreaking scientist she would eventually become. She started out as a girl full of curiosity, hoping one day to unlock the mysteries of the universe. With lyrical, evocative text by Kirsten W. Larson and extraordinary illustrations by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAYKeeton, Alisa
Summary: Do you sometimes feel as though your body is a problem to solve? Discover how to make it part of the solution instead. It's now known that the emotional and relational pain we've lived through has a profound negative physical effect on our bodies. Alisa Keeton, popular fitness professional, proposes that the reverse is also true: What we do with our bodies can have a dramatic positive effect on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Refresh 2023
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Summary: This book teaches young readers about soil's origins and makeup, as well as the nutrients it provides for growing things. Color illustrations and photographs, a glossary, a bibliography, a list of useful websites, and hands-on activities and projects are also provided.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2022
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Summary: In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help readers come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can’t understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.Most of us tend to think of the second half of life in chronological terms,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ram Dass shares the essence of his core wisdom through his iconic humor, joy, and honesty. Historical footage compliments an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto as they explore the life experiences that helped to free Ram Dass from the attachment to his "somebody-ness" a journey that transformed him into the radiant soul who now inspires a new generation. It is the quintessential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BECBall, Philip
Contents: [pt. 1.] Shapes -- [pt. 2.] Flow. -- [pt. 3.] Branches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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Summary: Kangaroo's mail train is rusing toward a broken train track!; Bear wants to play cowboys with Pig, Dog and Duck, but she's terrible with rope tricks; Sheep and Bear get lost in the jungle - and it's almost dark; The rest of WordWorld is trying to sleep, but Bear is keeping everyone awake with her all-nigh racket. Targets preschool-age children, with the main goal being to inspire a love of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WOREscoffier, Michaël
Summary: What happens when you subtract just one letter from a word? Beginning with "without the A the beast is the best" a pack of silly creatures work their way through the alphabet, subtracting each letter from a different word to alter its meaning and tell a story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCZiefert, Harriet.
Summary: "Clever word groupings list three alike things and one that it is different. For example, there are living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms--but a mushroom is not a room! Picture clues will help kids figure out which "of these things is not like the other" and will begin to grasp the more fine-tuned nuances of word parts, roots, and meanings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Apple Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.1 ZIESummary: "Invisible squirrels attack! Another big fight with Lord Garmadon, the ninja have come together to rebuild the Monastery of Spinjitzu and train with Master Wu. But when a training exercise gone wrong unleashes a group of angry Invisible Ninja Squirrels--that's right, angry Invisible Ninja Squirrels--the ninja will have to think fast or risk destroying the monastery all over again! It's an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LEGClaiborne, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 422.03 CLAGilbert, Elizabeth.
Summary: Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance, experience and wholeness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.4 GILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, ELIZABETH GILMartin, Colby
Summary: When Christians are kicked out of their conservative churches or leave because they no longer feel at home, they undertake a serious shift. Colby Martin has traversed this treacherous territory, survived its hardships, and is now sharing what he's learned. This friendly survival guide will prepare readers for the pitfalls awaiting them as they shift out of their conservative world, and it will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fortress Press 2020
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Summary: "Join bestselling author Beth Moore in her life-changing quest of vine-chasing-and learn how everything changes when you discover the true meaning of a fruitful, God-pleasing, meaning-filled life. Most of us have times when, if we are honest, we'd admit to feeling like our lives are embarrassingly small and insignificant. Times when it seems like we're going through a whole lot of pain and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MOOMoore, Bob (Bob P.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: NTC Pub. Group 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 422.48 MOORoss, Michael Elsohn
Summary: Describes the cycle of soil decomposition and the water cycle, as well as how to develop a compost pile for recycling peapods and other garden products into compost to feed a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 551 ROSSeidman, William Henry.
Contents: Follow your stars to a brighter future -- Reach for your stars -- Discover and describe: the detective -- Transform for brilliance -- Motivate the rest to be like the best -- Own your own learning -- Learning to lead -- Distribute globally, act locally -- Experience a real-world executive program -- Unleash the suppressed energy of frontline managers -- Drive cultural change with individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 SEISummary: The BUG Band is supposed to sing on Ant's radio show, but they have no words to their song! With Frog's help, they learn to sing a song that rhymes just fine and just in time. Pl-Pl-Plane: When Frog has to crash-land his plane in the jungle, he goes on a wild adventure. Get Your Coat: Duck builds all sorts of words that end in oat to coax his good friend Frog to come out and play in the rain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WORBall, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.3 BALBejan, Adrian
Summary: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BEJElliot, David
Summary: In this board book built on word play, each scene twists the animals' names into funny new words to share and delight in how they feel and sound. Bumblebee Grumblebee is for toddlers and adults to have fun experimenting with the way words are put together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ELL (BOARD)Merritt, James Gregory
Summary: "How often are we more concerned with our outward image than with our inner qualities? Your reputation is what others think is true about you, but your character is who you are on the inside. And in the end, it's your character that counts. If you long to invest your life in what matters most--the content of your character--join bestselling author James Merritt as he looks at 12 traits that are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2019