Oakley, Tyler
Summary: Social rights advocate and prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of personal essays. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense stand-off with a White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 OAKLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASFrank, Nathaniel
Summary: The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that once seemed unfathomable--and for many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 FRAHarwell, Ernie.
Summary: Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell is turning 90 in January '08. But he's as active as ever. He writes weekly columns for the Detroit Free Press, is a health advocate for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan and has made many guest appearances in the broadcast booth. Breaking 90 is the third collection of Harwell's Detroit Free Press columns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HARCox, Lynne
Summary: This story is of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to the author when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 COXHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUWellons, Jay
Summary: "Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLONS, JAY WELWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESVan Ness, Jonathan
Summary: In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside great joy and positivity (landing a breakout role on Netflix's Queer Eye, becoming an amateur figure skater and professional stand-up comedian, doting on his cats). If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN NESS, JONATHAN VANSummary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRELabash, Matt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 LABJackson, Richie
Summary: "When Richie Jackson's son born through surrogacy comes out to him at the age of 18, Richie - now in his 50s, a successful producer and happily married - feels compelled to write him a letter. Gay Like Me is both a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. Jackson talks of his own progress and growth as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural change. We've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, RICHIE JACKeller, Shana
Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KELHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: "A collection of Carl Hiaasen's best columns from the past twelve years, covering topics, like hurricanes, off-shore drilling, voting rights, and political corruption, that have become national issues. A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Dance of the Reptiles is Carl Hiaasen's third collection of the very best of his columns for the Miami Herald. Covering topics large and small, from local issues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.9 HIABrooks, Adrian
Summary: Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 BROClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIDeRamus, Betty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7115 DERPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAUPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers 1999
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUHarris, Duchess
Summary: "Growing Up LGBTQ explores what life is like for adolescents in the LGBTQ community, including topics like coming out, bullying and discrimination in school, and mental health. It also examines the creation of community and found family for LGBTQ people. Features include a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 306.76 HARSanders, Rob
Summary: Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MILDeRamus, Betty.
Summary: Slave couples who ran away together, a white woman who escaped with her slaves and an underground railroad that sometimes ran in reverse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 DERSummary: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOYCervini, Eric
Summary: "A biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020