Rekdal, Paisley
Summary: "A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination. How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "Vice President of Twitter Europe and host of the top business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat offers 30 smart, research-based hacks for bringing joy back into our burnt out, uninspired, and unproductive work culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 DAIRefsal, Harley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736.4 REFMasley, Steven.
Summary: " Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of Americans today, and while most doctors focus on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure they are overlooking the real culprit: glucose levels. With today's overweight population adn dramatic increase in Type II Diabetes, studies now show that sugar, not fat, does most of the heart damage. Plague reducing statins used to lower high cholesterol treat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.12 MASMasley, Steven
Summary: "The innovative guide that reveals how eating more fat--the smart kind--is the key to health, longevity, and permanent weight loss,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1999
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Summary: "If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 KniArment, Ainsley
Summary: "Speaking to the growing national trend, The Call of the Wild and Free equips families to provide quality homeschool education, and encourages all parents and caregivers to raise kids to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: "Speaking to the growing national trend, The Call of the Wild and Free equips families to provide quality homeschool education, and encourages all parents and caregivers to raise kids to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The Mediterranean Method will include guidelines for following Dr. Masley's low-glycemic approach to the Mediterranean diet (a truly healthy way to eat Mediterranean, not the popularized version we've come to know in the United States, which too closely resembles the Standard American Diet), along with 50 delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes, and an accompanying 16-page photo insert featuring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.591822 MASArment, Ainsley
Summary: "As parents, we dream of creating a magical childhood for our kids, yet it can be so easy to slip into autopilot. Ainsley Arment is no stranger to the barrage of decisions, opportunities, and daily tasks that each day brings. But what Ainsley has discovered is that the magic of life isn't found in the hustle and bustle of constant activity but in the intentional ordinary decisions of our days....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents ArmentEdgers, Geoff.
Summary: Profiles the "King of Rock 'n Roll," focusing on how he got his start in singing and how his style influenced later musicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PRESLEYPaley, Rebecca
Summary: Recounts life in early colonial America leading up to the famous tea tax protest that pushed the colonies and the British closer to war, using the stories of Felicity Merriman and how she became caught in between the two sides of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth. Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio 1995
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Summary: "You've probably heard some variation of the idea that before you can love someone else, you first have to learn to love yourself. Renowned family therapist and marriage counselor and bestselling author Terrence Real says that we've got it all wrong. In fact, the way to save your relationship is not by working on yourself, but instead by working together. Continuing to focus on yourself will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goop Press/Rodale 2022
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Summary: brief overview of the members of the species, their habits and natural history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookwright Press 1988
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Summary: "We have always known that reading aloud is an important way to bond with your baby and develop language skills. Now neuroscience research is showing us the long-term benefit that reading aloud has for children-all the way into adulthood. Author Rekha S.Rajan was part of current research that shows individuals who were read to more frequently as children had a measurably healthier brain in old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.422 RAJBailey, Anthony
Summary: The story of Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer is told against the backdrop of the "golden age" of Dutch culture in the seventeenth century and offers a portrait of Vermeer's life, his artistic career, and his influence on the history of Western art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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Summary: Shows parents how to homeschool their children in physical educaiton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Educators Press 2003
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Summary: Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: "The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: John Cheever (1912-1982) spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources--including Cheever's massive journal, only a fraction of which has been published--Blake Bailey's biography reveals the troubled but strangely lovable man behind the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009