Summary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHWong-Kalu, Hinaleimoana
Summary: Four individuals of dual male and female spirit bring their healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, where they are beloved for their gentle ways and miraculous cures and where they imbue four giant boulders with their powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTSummary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Adler, Tamar
Summary: "The award-winning, bestselling author of An Everlasting Meal serves up an inspiring, money-saving, environmentally responsible, A-to-Z collection of simple recipes that utilize all kinds of leftovers--perfect for solo meals or for feeding the whole family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.552 ADLAdler, Tamar
Summary: Many dishes that once excited our palates have disappeared from our tables-- perhaps even our memories. Adler has collected recipes from old cookbooks and menus, updated and simplified them, and now presents them for our modern lives. Ready for some Oysters Rockefeller? Perhaps Chicken à la Montmorency? She includes culinary advice, and encourages readers to create their own further...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ADLHagi
Summary: "A messenger's duty is to care for and protect the god they've been assigned to. In order to complete these tasks, such messengers require wings. Shin, however, can't fly. His tiny, useless wings make him the target of ridicule and scorn among the other messengers and have kept him from being able to serve a god... until now. Determined to prove himself as a capable messenger despite his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GODSeckin, Tamer
Summary: "This book will be the only comprehensive and accessible guide for young women and girls who are or may be struggling with the physical, psychological, and social effects of endometriosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 618.1 SECTatar, 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 TATElnoury, Tamer
Summary: It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELNOURY, TAMER ELNSimonson, 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 SIMTatar, Steven.
Summary: A collection of twenty-six colorful knitted projects adapted from original patterns from the 1940s through the 1970, with detailed directions, schematic charts, and color guides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 TATKalb, Claudia
Summary: "A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 KALMali, Taylor.
Summary: Makes an impassioned defense of teaching and explains how dedicated teachers are and why they should be given better salaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 MALMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARHaspel, Tamar
Summary: "Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food meets Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this part memoir, part how-to guide by Tamar Haspel (author of the Washington Post column Unearthed) about the unexpected joys of what she calls "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASPEL, TAMAR HASTatar, Maria
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1987
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Summary: "We all have a duty to affect others--from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instincts--from relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert control--are ineffective, because they are incompatible with how peoples minds operate. Sharot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 SHAFelt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARMyers, Tamar.
Summary: When eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a heart attack while in bed with another woman just days before his wedding to Priscilla Livengood, and it is revealed that there may have been foul play, Madgalena Yoder must uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYEFrankiel, Tamar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Lights Publishing 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.72 FRAGeller, Tamar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 GELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 GelWilliams, Kale
Summary: "The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021