Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 H1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV H
Summary: When Doreen Green, also known as Squirrel Girl, volunteers to teach a high school computer programming class, she discovers that one of her students is Kamala Khan, who moonlights as the superhero Ms. Marvel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MARKeene, Helen Estelle Foster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n.] 1972
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.464 KEEJones, Serene
Summary: "With a voice that is at once frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, intimate and practical, [Serene] Jones makes complex teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, death, sin, and grace understandable and immediately applicable for modern people. Excavating the wisdom of great theological voices--Soren Kierkegaard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, James Baldwin, James Cone, Luce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 JONHyemin
Summary: "A renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life by offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Allison, Serene.
Summary: "A comprehensive, biblically sound, effective (and delicious) way to eat for health and weight loss." -- Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welby Street Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 AllSelassie, Sebene
Summary: "In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help SelassieSereni, Vittorio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guernica 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 851.912 SERSummary: "Contains a collection of 80 ... specially commissioned world maps that show you where everything is on our planet. The world's most dangerous predators, ancient mummies, disastrous asteroid impacts, and towering skyscrapers--find out where they all are in this ultimate atlas that showcases the best of geography, history, nature, culture, and technology"--Flap p. [1] of dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 912 WHEFried, Hedi
Summary: Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble, an imprint of Scribe Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 940.53 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 FRICastrovilla, Selene
Summary: "Introduces the reader to the founding mothers of the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 CASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CASCastrovilla, Selene
Summary: Recounts the story of an enslaved man seeking sanctuary during the Civil War whose heroism saved Fortress Monroe and helped convince President Lincoln that slavery must be abolished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5 CASYeager, Selene.
Summary: Women are built differently, ride differently, burn different macronutrients as fuel, and have a different relationship with their bikes than men do. It's only natural they should need their own comprehensive cycling book. This book is an instructional manual geared specifically toward women. It breaks the sport of cycling down into easily digestible sections, beginning with the history of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Edin, Kathryn
Summary: "Three of the nation's top scholars, known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America, turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 EDISummary: Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ITSMillner, Denene
Summary: The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" -Ebony For almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically acclaimed website MyBrownBaby,com. The site, hailed as a "must-read" by the New York Times, speaks to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden, an Agate imprint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 MILSchlachter, Terese
Summary: "The biography of Colonel Greg Gadson (Ret.) co-written with writer and video producer Terese Schlachter, details Gadson's remarkable and inspirational journey from his grievous wounding as a battlefield commander in Iraq to becoming the spiritual coach of the New York Giants, a major film and television actor, and motivational life coach and outdoor-adventure enthusiast"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GADSON, GREGORY DIMITRI, SCHHein, Till
Summary: "In this entertaining and informative book, science writer Till Hein shares the most tantalizing findings from the world of seahorses, opening up some of the secrets of these magical creatures of the sea. He reveals their intriguing biological features, such as their unique prehensile tails, their fins, and their lack of a stomach (seahorses only have intestines!). He speaks to experts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 HEIBall, Serena
Summary: "The Sustainable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to getting the most from this incredible regimen, with 10 steps to a more eco-friendly kitchen including helpful guidance on more sustainable ingredient choices, energy-saving cooking methods, smarter storage, and food waste reduction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Sebree, Chet'la
Summary: Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet'la Sebree's Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others--a meditation on desire, race, loss, and survival.--Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive. Chet'la Sebree's Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SEBSvoboda, Terese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arkansas Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SVOStiene, Bronwen.
Summary: "Bronwen Stiene brings you nine essential Reiki techniques focusing on your own well-being, growth, and empowerment. On Reiki Meditations for Self-Healing, this expert teacher invites you to join her for a series of energizing guided practices from the Japanese tradition, including: Meditations for balancing the "three diamonds": the energies of the earth, the heavens, and your own heart; The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2008