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Africa, Sub-Saharan Social conditions Asexuality (Sexual orientation) Coming out (Sexual orientation) Coming out (Sexual orientation) Comic books, strips, etc Conservation of natural resources Economic aspects Domestic animals Fiction Gender identity Sun Ra Sun Ra Arkestra. United StatesHaney, Bill
Summary: A memoir containing chapters on Elmore Leonard, Ernie Harwell, Sue Marx, Lt. Milo Radulovich, Joe Dumars, Denise Ilitch, J.P. McCarthy, Carl Oglesby, Jennifer Granholm, Jack Kevorkian, George Pierrot, Tom Wilson, Charlie Gehringer, Ron Monchak, Bill Davidson, and Ed Cole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seattle Book Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920 HANColeman, Melissa.
Summary: With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLEMAN, MELISSA COLRius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARX, KARL RIUBuzzeo, Toni
Summary: "From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HENKarr, Mary.
Summary: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARR, MARY KARBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENAlford, Terry
Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFPhillips, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 PHIAchterberg, Cara Sue
Summary: Describes the author's decision to convert her Pennsylvania farm into a foster home for dogs, recounting her experiences with dozens of remarkable canines throughout her first two years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHTERBERG, CARA SUE ACHDye, Dan.
Summary: Dan Dye tells the story of his dog, Gracie, an albino Great Dane who chose him to be her owner, and discusses how Gracie's eating disorder spurred him to begin baking cookies for the dog, which eventually led to the creation of the successful Three Dog Bakery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.73 DYEKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: The authors describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Kidd 2009Lemonick, Michael D.
Summary: "In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered. Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON LEMWheen, Francis.
Summary: Looks at the life of the father of Communism focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, "Traveling with Pomegranates" is a revealing self-portrait by the beloved author of "The Secret Life of Bees" and her daughter, a writer in the making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.6 KIDSummary: A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach.This documentary shows the full contribution of the landscape artist to the national flora. Directed and written by João Vargas Penna, the film is a walk through the art and personality of Roberto Burle Marx,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANKanfer, Stefan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARX, GROUCHO KANHarrison, David L. (David Lee)
Summary: When Dog wakes up early, in the middle of the night, he launches all the other farm animals in a worried search for the missing sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN HARAbley, Mark
Summary: "A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABLEY, MARK ABLWilson, Mara
Summary: ""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight."--Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together." --Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy A former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILSON WILTargoff, Ramie
Summary: "A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Characterized as an LDC or Least Developed Country, the nation of Chad wrestles with drought, population growth, and resulting tensions between farmers and herders. This program investigates hydraulic projects and mediation initiatives that are fostering relationships between Chad's food growers and its nomadic, livestock-centered cultures. Overviewing the basic causes of Chadian land disputes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Illegal deforestation, slash-and-burn practices, poverty, land disputes-these are among the many problems associated with farming in Madagascar. This program guides viewers through the real-world challenges of building sustainable agriculture in the country. Outlining reasons why many growers are unable or unwilling to leave outmoded techniques behind, the film visits community offices that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010