Summary: A moving portrayal of an American family coping with one of the most intimate of transformations. When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender and changed her name to Trisha, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. Her father's transition to female was difficult for her straight-identified mother, Marcia, to accept, but her parents stayed together. As the Shattucks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FROShaw, Gina
Summary: Introduces readers to Nintendo, one of the most influential companies in the video game industry and creator of some of the top-selling video game franchises of all-time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793 SHARhodes, Elisha Hunt
Summary: The Civil war diaries and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. All For the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7445 RHOHirano, Ryoji
Summary: "Savage demons devour unsuspecting humans in Taisho-era Japan. Armed with special swords, the Demon Slayer Corps fights to stop the devastation demons spread. Giyu Tomioka, the sole Water Hashira, and Kyojuro Rengoku, a high-ranking Kinoe, embark on missions to eliminate demons and prove their mettle as two of the fiercest Demon Slayers. Giyu heads north to an area where a band of hunters was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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Summary: "As she recovers from a breakup with a lover who had meant everything to her, Trisha Low grapples with the meaning of everything, in memoir rich with theory and digression, but also in stark, gorgeous imagery and memorable, epigrammatic insight. Low, a young queer woman from a Singaporean family, must travel between the American coasts and experience debasement both routine -- in the form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOW, TRISHA LOWCooper, Elisha.
Summary: "The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir. Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOPER, ELISHA COOAlgeo, Matthew.
Summary: Recounts the summer of 1893 when President Grover Cleveland disappeared for five days, covering up a surgery to remove cancer from his palate and jaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEVELAND, GROVER ALGWilson, Seán Michael
Summary: "Tells the story of Minamata disease, a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition caused by the Chisso chemical factory's careless release of methylmercury into the waters of the coastal community of Minamata in southern Japan. First identified in 1956, it became a hot topic in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, growing into an iconic struggle between people versus corporations and government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Bridge Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.9 WILBarrett, Lorna
Summary: Tricia Miles receives two marriage proposals within fifteen minutes! The first was from her friend with benefits, Marshall Chambers, and the second from her ex-lover, police chief Grant Baker. She's still weighing her options a big white pickup roars down Main Street and hits Marshall. His death leaves Tricia feeling bereft and guilty. She stays at the apartment of her sister, Angelica, to wait...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarrett, Lorna
Summary: "It's a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he's overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles's newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It'll house office space where her marketing staff and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024
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Summary: "In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan writes about a solitary summer visit to Alaska, observing glaciers, shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and herself. As she studies her surroundings, the myth of Alaska-excitement, exploration, possibility-is complicated by boredom and isolation, and her attempts to set down place in writing are suffused with nostalgia and anxiety. The first title commissioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SABScheunemann, Pam
Summary: Shows projects that can be done from scrap metal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Craft ScheunemannSutter, Trista.
Summary: "Whether or not you remember Trista (Rehn) Sutter from her heartbreak on the first season of The Bachelor reality show or as the original Bachelorette, you've probably seen her on the cover of magazines like People and US Weekly or on shows like Ellen and Dancing with the Stars. She has rarely been out of the public eye since falling in love with Ryan Sutter on The Bachelorette more than ten...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.9 SUTSummary: "Brought to life by director Daniel Junge, this is a tale of brilliant innovations, colossal failures and ego-driven rivalries akin to Steve Jobs versus Bill Gates. It is a 50-year-long, multi-generation epic featuring corporate coups, industrial espionage, secret burial grounds and the promise of unimaginable riches just one cartridge away. The only constant through the saga is this: just when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAMVo, Minh-Tri
Summary: "Create delicious dishes from My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, and more with this cookbook inspired by the stunning worlds of Studio Ghibli! Whether they offer a moment of family bonding, comfort in difficult situations, or pesky temptations, the kitchen scenes are always of central importance in Studio Ghibli films. Now, with Studio Ghibli: The Unofficial Cookbook, you can recreate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2022
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Summary: Presents seven projects that teach readers how to upcycle trash into treasure, including a birdfeeder, lanterns, and tile coasters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Craft ScheunemannCooper, Natasha
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOSummary: "Kids will learn what it means to take care of Earth and all of the life it supports with these fun and educational apps, interactive books, and activities. Create your own planet; build a green environment; learn about the importance of cleaning up trash; explore wildlife and different habitats."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD IMPScheunemann, Pam
Summary: Project ideas using recycled plastic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Craft ScheunemannBryant, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis)
Summary: "Bhakti, or devotion, is the central concept of Hinduism. This book explores bhakti through examining one particular tradition with Hinduism and the key practices, beliefs, and texts associated with it, which are all nearly in the form of parable-like stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.5 BRYO'Kane, Trish
Summary: In this affecting memoir, O'Kane (Guatemala in Focus), a natural sciences lecturer at the University of Vermont, elegantly weaves personal and natural history as she details how her fascination with birds compelled her to quit her journalism career, return to school at age 45 to get a PhD in environmental studies, and become an ardent conservationist. Interspersed with O'Kane's account of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024
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Summary: How to upcycle fabric trash into something new.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 746 SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Craft ScheunemannThaler, Mike
Summary: Hubie transforms into Earthman, defender of the environment, to battle Trashman's army of litterbugs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE THAGotoge, Koyoharu
Summary: "The fight with Kokushibo, the highest-ranking demon among Muzan's servants, is over. Although Himejima and Sanemi defeated Kokushibo and sent him to hell, the price the Demon Slayer Corps has paid is very high. Kiriya Ubuyashiki, the new leader of the Demon Slayers, struggles to recover from the losses. With the battle against Muzan far from over, the remaining fighters will need his help more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021