Tyler, Aisha.
Summary: "On the wildly popular podcast "Girl on Guy," comedian and actress Aisha Tyler asks her guests to recount moments from their lives when they've done something boneheaded, ill conceived, dangerous, or just plain stupid...to themselves. In Self-Inflicted Wounds, Aisha turns the lens on herself-recounting her most egregious mistakes--to hilarious result. Laugh out loud funny, and totally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYLER, AISHA TYLOakley, Tyler
Summary: Social rights advocate and prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of personal essays. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense stand-off with a White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 OAKAlbritton, Jane (EDT)
Contents: On our way-- and back again -- Bound for the Philippines -- Puerto Rico : memories from a battered box -- Philippines : back to school -- Afghanistan : God, president Kennedy, and me -- Tonga : far away places -- Thailand : visits with the veterans -- Philippines : stop pig! drop the flip-flop! -- Samoa : return to the land of the morning calm -- Korea : a letter to Sri Padmanabham -- India :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.6 EVEShrady, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 725 SHRHuckelbridge, Dane
Summary: "American Sniper meets Jaws: The gripping true account of the Champawat Tiger, the deadliest animal of all time (killer of an astonishing 436 humans), and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who brought it down in 1907"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 799.2 HUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 HUCTidhar, Lavie
Summary: "For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ADLAkhtar, Aysha
Summary: Through the stories of a varied cast of characters, Dr. Akhtar reveals what happens when we both break and forge bonds with animals. She demonstrates how humans are neurologically designed to empathize with animals, and how violence against them goes against our nature. In equal measure, the love and friendship we give to other species biologically reverberates back to us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 590 AKHFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDNaldrett, Alan.
Summary: Some of Michigan's most noteworthy yarns and compelling characters were lost down the corridors of history--until now. Discover the Nain Rouge, that "Demon from the Strait," spotted everywhere from the Battle of Bloody Run in 1763 to the Detroit Riot in 1967. Meet folks like Major Stickney, who named his sons One and Two and his youngest daughter Indiana. Inspect the Toledo War's ill-equipped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 NALWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESOsborn, Jon.
Summary: 16 flies from the Adams to Zoo CougarLegendary tiers like Len Halladay, George Griffith, and Clark LynnOriginal and modern patterns for each classic fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headwater Books 2013
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7 OSBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Water OsbornKline, Barbara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 649 KLICharleson, Susannah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 CHAKerasote, Ted.
Summary: Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership and animal consciousness and behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7092 KERDuffy-Korpics, Lisa.
Summary: Tales from a Dog Catcher is based on the author's experiences in a smallish city in the northern suburbs of NYC. Reminiscent of both All Creatures Great and Small and Marley and Me, it offers the stories of everyday people who, whether by accident or design, come into contact with the sad, funny, and often profound world of an animal control officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 DUFOsgood, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.099 OSGDrummond, Ree
Summary: Welcome to Rees new frontier! Much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Rees business has expanded, and her cooking has evolved. While she still cherishes her trademark family-friendly style of food, Rees been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture shes craving these days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 DRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 DRUIyer, Pico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 950.42 IYEDiamant, Anita
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 296.7 DIALeone, Brad
Summary: "Come along with Brad Leone as he explores forests, fields, rivers, and the ocean in the hunt for great food and good times. These pages are Brad's field notes from a year of adventures in the Northeast, getting out into nature to discover its bounty, and capturing memorable ideas for making delicious magic at home anytime. He taps maple trees to make syrup, and shows how to use it in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5974 LEOJames, Kyle
Summary: After purchasing one-way flights from New York City to Paris, Kyle James and his girlfriend Ashley quit their day jobs, planned futures, and their daily paradigms to see as much of the world as they could. In 114 days, they trekked across 15 countries and 38 cities with nothing but their backpacks, their smartphones, and each other. Not Afraid of the Fall is the unvarnished story of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMES, KYLE JAMWilkinson, Crystal
Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILAbramson, Jill
Summary: This book is a a work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles the author's first year with her Golden Retreiver, Scout, based on her blog of the same name from The New York Times. Is is an instructive and entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the author, the managing editor of The New York Times. One summer day, she brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2011