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.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7445 RHOLow, Trisha
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...
Format: text
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.
Format: text
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 WILSabatini Sloan, Aisha
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SABSutter, 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 SUTScheunemann, 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 ScheunemannSummary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2022
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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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.5 BRYScheunemann, Pam
Summary: Presents seven projects that teach readers how to upcycle trash into treasure, including a birdfeeder, lanterns, and tile coasters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Craft ScheunemannScheunemann, Pam
Summary: How to upcycle fabric trash into something new.
Format: text
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 ScheunemannO'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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Scheunemann, 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 ScheunemannBremer, Krista.
Summary: A full-length account of a Pushcart Prize-winning essay describes the author's experiences as the journalist wife of a Libyan-born Muslim with whom she lives in the American south, a relationship that has endured prejudices and respective views about family and parenting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 BREMER, KRISTA BREJoseph, Leisha
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1532 JOSPunch, Terrence M.
Summary: Erin's Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2008
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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. ICall number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. II
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Gutman, Dan
Summary: Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the Beatles, from their childhoods and early days as musicians to the formation and rise of the band to become the greatest of all time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J 782.42 GUTMojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJGotoge, Koyoharu
Summary: "The battle between Tanjiro, Giyu, and Akaza continues. To beat Akaza, Tanjiro must use an advanced technique his father taught him--the Transparent World--which will push him beyond his limitations. Elsewhere in the Infinity Castle, Shinobu, burning with hatred, confronts Doma, the demon who killed her family. Can she take on the powerful demon by herself?"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC GOTOrchard, Rob
Summary: The world's most mind-boggling questions, answered through 200 brilliantly clever and addictive infographics.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021