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Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARLoewen, Nancy
Summary: A fun look at the use of conjunctions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2007
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Summary: If you were a preposition, you would show the relation between another word and a noun or pronoun. You could go with your friends into the movie theater. What else could you do if you were a preposition?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2007
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Summary: Against the President's orders, Navy SEAL and sniper Gil Shannon leads a mission comprised of SEAL Team Six and Delta Force members into Afghanistan to rescue a female helicopter pilot held captive by the Taliban.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCEMcEwen, Scott.
Contents: The froggy origins of the Navy SEALs -- The tragedy that birthed SEAL Team 6 -- From pirates to professionals -- Drago's war -- Operation Red Wings -- Fallujah: the perfect op that led to prosecution -- Benghazi Libya: SEALs alone -- When SEALs answer the call -- The rescue that wasn't -- The teams: why the unique culture of the SEALs matters -- Appendix A: Benghazi timeline -- Appendix B:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.984 MINMcEwen, Joy
Summary: "With over 100 color photographs and illustrations, Raising Resilient Bees is the comprehensive source for new and experienced beekeepers, offering a sustainable, natural, and repeatable model of care for hive health and production. Global pests and diseases present an unprecedented challenge for the modern honey bee. Hobby and commercial beekeepers alike continue to experience troubling rates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 MCEMcEwen, Katharine
Summary: Invites young readers to look under snowbanks and icebergs to discover various aninals that live in the polar regions, in a text with liftable flaps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dante, Elias, and Jay and Silent Bob are enlisted by Randal after his heart attack to make a movie about the convenience store that started it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CLEARCA
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCArca
Summary: Arca's third full-length album is the first to feature the Venezuela-born, London-based producer's untreated singing voice. He sings in Spanish, the language of his childhood home, Venezuala. It stands as a defiant, delicate statement of intent, and cements his position as one of this turbulent decade's defining musicians.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCFara, Patricia.
Summary: In this book the author rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Aiming not just to provide information but to make people think, it explores how science has become so powerful by describing the financial interests and imperial ambitions behind its success. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 FARLa Sera.
Contents: Losing to the Dark (3:12) -- Summer of Love (1:55) -- Running Wild (3:14) -- Fall in Place (2:34) -- All My Love is For You (3:27) -- Hour of the Dawn (4:44) -- Kiss This Town Away (3:13) -- Control (3:05) -- 10 Headed Goat Wizard (2:37) -- Storm's End (2:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hardly Art 2014
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McFarlane, Zara
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCFMir, Saira
Summary: Introduces nineteen Muslim women from all around the world who have found their callings in a vast range of fields, from social justice to competitive sports to the entertainment industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MIRStanisic, Sasa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHAcquaye, Saka.
Contents: Sugar soup -- Down the Congo -- Saturday night -- Drum festival -- Concomba -- Beyond Africa -- Congo beat -- Echoes of the African forest -- Bus conductor -- Ebony -- Kenya sunset -- Awuben -- Akudonno.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ACQCahoone, Sera
Contents: Worry all your life -- Deer Creek Canyon -- Naked -- Nervous wreck -- And still we move -- Every little word -- One to blame -- Rumpshaker -- Shakin' hands -- Anyway you like -- Here with me -- Oh my.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAHHarrar, Sarí.
Summary: A guide to easing chronic pain reveals the sources of common conditions from tendinitis and heartburn to fibromyalgia and headaches, identifying conventional remedies for immediate relief while outlining strategies for long-term prevention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.0472 HARKrasikov, Sana
Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAMadani, Saura
Summary: "A warm slice of homemade pie can complete any celebration--but every baker knows that a problematic pie is enough to sour a sweet occasion. This pie cookbook gives you the support you need to start making perfect, homemade pies from scratch. This pie cookbook gets your dough rolling, complete with step-by-step techniques for mixing, shaping, rolling, and finishing your dough. Refine your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8652 MADMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCASada, Daniel
Summary: In 1945 Oaxaca, an agronomist named Demetrio Sordo regularly visits a prostitute named Mireya even as he pursues a more pure form of love in his correspondence with a girl from his hometown named Renata, until problems arise with the arrangement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SADZara, Christopher
Summary: "For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023