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Burda, Cindy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.18 BUR

Summary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INT

Summary: "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CON

Budd, Anne Lockwood Dallas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio Genealogical Society 1974

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3771 Budd,

Aline

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALI

Rude, Emelyn

Summary: "Emelyn Rude details the ascendancy of chicken from its domestication nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.66 RUD

Bennett, Juda

Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 374 BEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 734 BEN

Buda, Pam

Summary: "Small quilt patterns using reproduction fabrics"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Sew Buda

Benjamin, Ruha.

Summary: "From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Polity 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BEN

Rouda, Kaira.

Summary: "The perfect home. The perfect family. The perfect lie. Jane Harris lives in a sparkling home in an oceanfront gated community in Orange County. It's a place that seems too beautiful to be touched by sadness. But exactly one year ago, Jane's oldest daughter, Mary, died in a tragic accident and Jane has been grief-stricken ever since. Lost in a haze of anti-depressants, she's barely even left...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROU

Marya, Rupa

Summary: "Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 MAR

Rada, Jim.

Summary: "[T]his book is the bible for those of us hoping to experience the best whitewater in the Northwoods. It features technical yet spirited descriptions of every significant run in the area, plus colorful tales of the author's journeys. A detailed rating system assists kayakers and canoers in choosing the best river for their level of experience, while accurate maps and a user-friendly layout lead...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SangFroid Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.122 RAD

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 797.122 RAD

Rueda, Claudia.

Summary: Loosely based on the folktale about the three little pigs, these three pigs have a different surprise for the wolf who is trying to blow their houses down. The reader is asked to huff and puff into a die-cut hole in each page.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Rueda 2012

Rudy, Kathy.

Summary: " The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members--animal lovers outside the fray--extremist positions in which all human-animal interaction is suspect often discourage involvement in the movement to end cruelty to other beings. In Loving Animals, Kathy Rudy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 RUD

Summary: A collection of exercise and fitness routines to help viewer to get in shape and work off the pounds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GAIAM 2013

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Abramson, Rudy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomasson-Grant & Lickle 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 975 ABR

Cone, David

Summary: A Mets and Yankees All-Star pitcher shares lessons from his seventeen-year career, detailing his passion, frustrations, and strategies, and offering stories from the memorable teams he played on. During his 17-year career, Cone became a master of the mechanics and mental toughness a pitcher needs to succeed in the major leagues. A five-time All-Star and five-time World Champion, he now gives...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONE, DAVID CON

Benjamin, Ruha

Summary: Benjamin draws on her own experiences as well as research to show how we can build a more just world--one small, and viral, step at a time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022

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Cone, Steve

Summary: "Projects include all styles of chairs or couches, stools, different styles of ottomans, a bench, and a headboard. Includes stripping, repairing, and reupholstering old furniture pieces to like-new condition. Step-by-step instructions. Index"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Pub. International 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 645.4 CON

Shur, Rudy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.52 SHU

Aline

Summary: Sequel to: The Spy Wore Red. The memoirs of Aline, Countess of Romanones who is called out of semiretirement by the CIA to uncover a highly placed NATO mole.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 ALI

Fahmy, Huda

Summary: "Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda Fahmy tells the hilarious story of how she met and married her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2020

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Vine, David

Summary: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.00973 VIN

Vine, David.

Summary: American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a little-noticed part of the Pentagon’s vast operations. But in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VIN

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