Dillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILLON, MICHAEL DILHeyman, Jivana
Summary: Yoga practice has so much to offer us physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. It is truly a practice for all-- you do not need to be young, slim, and flexible to practice it. Heyman breaks down poses, breathing practices, meditation techniques and yoga teachings into practical tools that we can use every day, regardless of our limitations or challenges. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 HEYSteptoe, Javaka
Summary: "This beautiful board books by award-winning author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe celebrates the joy, hope and pride that a new baby brings"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD STESteptoe, Javaka
Summary: Presents the life of the artist, who was inspired as a child by a book of anatomy given to him by his mother after being injured in a car crash and who went on to become a celebrity in the art world before his early death at twenty-eight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASQUIAT STELobrano, Alec
Summary: "In a touching and funny memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's tells how he became one of Paris's most influential restaurant critics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LOBLobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso
Summary: A forefront Buddhist leader describes his witness to the torture and arrest of his family and teachers by Chinese authorities, his suffering at the sides of fellow monks under occupier "reeducation" practices, and his eventual escape to Tibet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOBTrump, Ivanka
Summary: The daughter of Donald Trump and founder of her eponymous fashion brand counsels women on how to achieve maximum success in all areas of life through a strategic prioritization that includes family, friends, and creative pursuits, as well as career ambitions. "I believe that when it comes to women and work, there isn't one right answer. The only person who can create a life you'll love is you....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 TRULozano, Brenda
Summary: Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOZLozano, César
Summary: "Esta es una obra en la que el Dr. César Lozano nos exhorta a valorar lo que tenemos; es un reconocimiento de que nuestra vida es breve y pasajera pero que, para aquellos que tenemos esperanza, siempre nos lleva al verdadero despertar. ¡Despierta!... que la vida sigue ofrece valiosas fórmulas y técnicas que te sacudirán para que no te quedes enredado en tus problemas y disfrutes de los mejores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aguilar 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 LOZChubbuck, Ivana.
Summary: A Hollywood coach introduces a twelve-part acting method that draws on the traditions of performance masters and explains how to apply her techniques to create genuine characters and audition effectively.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 CHUGalchen, Rivka.
Summary: When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSivak, Zoe
Summary: "A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIV SIVGalchen, Rivka.
Summary: In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family. By turns realistic, fantastical,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALLozano, Luciano
Summary: When Diana finds herself struggling in school and unable to concentrate, her family enrolls her in dance classes and soon she finds it is easier for her to think if she is moving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Lozano 2019Trump, Ivana
Summary: "'Behind every successful woman, there is a man in shock.' Contrary to popular belief, self-proclaimed 'Lion Mom' Ivana Trump has not always had it all. Born to two loving and diligent parents but raised in communist Czechoslovakia, Ivana knows a thing or two about working her way to the top. And though she is now a successful businesswoman in her own right, her true pride and joy rests within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMP, IVANA TRUGalchen, Rivka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALBstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Snow Lion Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel DalaiGalchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALMiriam, Rivka.
Summary: "A collection of selected poems that span [the author's] career, and display her deep emotional connection to Jewish tradition, mysticism, and the Land of Israel"--Publisher's website
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 MIRMoore-Lobban, Shavonne J.
Summary: "Black women experience domestic violence and abuse at a disproportionately high rate. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this first-of-its-kind book addresses the unique struggles faced by Black women who have experienced domestic violence, and empowers them to understand and heal their trauma, leave harmful situations, and regain a sense of safety and freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 MOODiep, Hayley
Summary: "This dynamic picture book biography introduces readers of all ages to Wataru Misaka, the first non-white athlete to play in the NBA Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Japanese American boy born to immigrant parents, liked to play basketball under the glow of stars and a small street lamp in Ogden, Utah. America was home to Wat, but with the onset of World War II, many people thought he didn't belong. "Go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Navigate through monsters, mysteries, and the will of the gods with two young extraordinary adventurers in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica as they search for a missing father. Donají is a fearless Zapotec girl who, even though she's only fifteen, is heralded as a hero by her village. In Codex Black, Donají sets out on an adventure-accompanied by the god that lives inside of her poncho-to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CODSummary: A collection of poems celebrating African-American fathers by Angela Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Carole Boston Weatherford, and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.008 INGolio, Gary.
Summary: Before he became one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a boy who loved to paint and listen to records, and who asked himself an unusual question: could someone paint pictures with sound?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2010