Rawitt, Jean
Summary: "While many teens, college students, and young professionals are passionate about social issues--whether climate change or gun violence, hunger or homelessness, or any other of the countless difficulties which face our world today--and want to help, enthusiasm alone is not enough to make a meaningful impact. But effective advocacy and activism can be learned, and with the right tools, achieving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.8 RAWRawitt, Jean
Summary: "This book addresses the challenges teenagers may face when a family member has dementia. It offers valuable information and support, with stories from young adults themselves and interviews with adults who know and care for people with dementia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.8 RAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 616.8 ROWO'Shea, Samara
Summary: Presents a guide to overcoming rejection and thriving in the face of unrequited love, offering advice on cultivating self-worth and loving oneself without requiring the validation of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: February Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 OSHAmara, Philip
Summary: "This is an illustrated children's anthology of noteworthy Asian Americans: 20 groundbreaking men and women from diverse backgrounds and vocations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AMASamara, Timothy.
Summary: For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760 SAMO'Shea, Samara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.6 OSHBay, Samara
Summary: Blending anecdotes with eye-opening research in leadership, linguistics and social science, a communication expert who's worked with Hollywood's biggest stars, political powerhouses and businesspeople offers a fresh perspective on public speaking and a new definition of what power sounds like.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.5 BAYDean, Tamara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.6 DEAHill, Tamara
Summary: "Racial trauma can reverberate for generations, and lead to anxiety, irritability, anger, rage, depression, low self-esteem, shame, and guilt. Teens are especially vulnerable to racial trauma, as they are still developing a sense of self and identity. The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens provides readers with evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to heal the wounds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 305.8 HILShopsin, Tamara
Summary: "'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHOPSIN, TAMARA SHOJowitt, Deborah
Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOWO'Mara, Peggy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents O'MaraPavitt, Nigel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 PAVSamaha, Albert
Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SAMWilkins, Melissa Camara.
Summary: Trying to fix yourself is exhausting. But being yourself - that is both possible and life-giving. The key is a simple heart-shift from chasing after perfection to learning to tell a truer story about ourselves, the world, and our place in it. Melissa Camara Wilkins invites you into her journey of discovering the profound simplicity of dropping the pretenses and allowing ourselves to be fully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 WILHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARLavitt, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 LavittSimonson, Itamar
Summary: Offering a new framework called the influence mix, a forward-looking marketing guide shows how to influence customers in this new age and environment through updated communication strategies, market research programs, and segmentation strategies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 SIMHewitt, Catherine
Summary: "Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LA BIGNE, VALTESSE de, HEWTatar, Maria
Summary: "World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TATHewitt, Brad
Summary: "Many of us live with ongoing and unexamined tension related to money. Few of us have really escaped the credit-card trap or freed ourselves from worries about having enough for the future. Coauthors Brad Hewitt, CEO of Thrivent Financial, and Dr. Jim Moline, licensed psychologist, believe we haven't spent enough time examining our fundamental attitudes toward money and aligning those attitudes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Money HewittO'Mara, John
Summary: "When we're checking the thermometer to see what the temperature is outside-or maybe to see if we have a fever-we rarely think about what makes the thermometer function. This amazing, reliable invention is attributed to Galileo! Readers will learn about the first mercury thermometers and how they work, as well as the digital models they may be more familiar with today. Many important science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 681 O'MATanaka, Shelley.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 910.9 TANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Around TanakaOrr, Tamra
Summary: Imagine a worm that spits glue, a rat with vampire teeth, and a frog you can see through! These are just some of the amazing animals that were recently discovered by scientists. Readers learn about these fascinating creatures and many more through carefully-leveled, engaging books reviewed by Smithsonian experts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2019