Ahuja, Masuma
Summary: "Journalist Masuma Ahuja introduces us to 31 teenage girls from 29 countries. Through diary entries and photographs, they share their own stories of growing up and show what ordinary girlhood is like all over the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 AHULeVine, Robert Alan
Summary: "In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Le VineSmall, Meredith F.
Summary: "This is not a parenting advisor but instead a revealing perspective on how and why we raise children as we do." --Booklist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SMASmith, Penny
Summary: Introduces children from around the world and discusses where they live, how they play, and what their schools are like.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 SMIBussi, Gail
Summary: "The 30 cross-stitch designs in Gail Bussi's signature hand-lettering style will encourage mindful, relaxing stitching and are easy enough for beginners. Each project includes chart, finished photo, materials list, and full instructions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.443 BUSFreeman, Sally Mott
Summary: Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FREHansen, Dennis R.
Summary: The Trail Atlas of Michigan is the only comprehensive guide of non-motorized trails for Michigan. The Atlas covers hiking, x-c skiing, mountain and road biking, in-line skating and nature trails. The Atlas covers trails in every corner of the state from Monroe County near Lake Erie to Keweenaw County in the Upper Peninsula and hundreds of places in between.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Hansen Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.774 HANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Map HansenCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912.774 HANSpinner, Stephanie
Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of Clara Barton, a teacher who organized efforts to bring nursing care to wounded soldiers during the Civil War and who went on to become the founder of the American Red Cross.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stitch your way across the USA with 30 cross stitch patterns featuring the most popular national parks and monuments. America the Beautiful Cross Stitch brings the majesty of our national sites home. America is brimming with natural wonders, diverse wildlife, and historic treasures. This collection contains 30 original cross stitch patterns, an introduction to each park or monument, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: becker&mayer! books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.443 AMEBrown, Sharon Garlough
Summary: "In this sequel to Shades of Light, Katherine Rhodes finds her own grief tapped by Wren Crawford's struggles with depression and loss. Katherine reflects on the meaning of Christ's suffering and shares her own story of finding hope, while Wren moves forward in her commitment to paint the stations of the cross. Readers are invited into a similar journey of reflection through Katherine's words...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGoebel, Jenny
Summary: Adjusting to life with type 1 diabetes isn't easy. Emily is desperate to prove that she's just as strong and capable as ever, so she jumps at the opportunity to go on a backcountry ski trip with her dad and her new diabetic alert dog, Molly. But then a severe winter storm rips through the area, separating Emily from her father. When it becomes clear that no one will come to their rescue before...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GOEHardin, David
Summary: "A brief, elegant memoir of the author's work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the struggles of a city in crisis against the author's personal journey as his mother declines into dementia and eventual death. Written with a poet's eye for detail and quiet metaphor, Standpipe is an intimate look at one man's engagement with both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDIN, DAVE HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South HardinJohn of the Cross
Summary: "The 16th-century friar known as St. John is a preeminent Spanish literary figure as well as one of the world's great mystical poets. This new edition of his works of spiritual guidance modernizes the original text while retaining its rhetorical grandeur. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum." -- Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 JOHLakin, Patricia
Summary: A brief biography of the woman who overcame her shyness to become a teacher, a nurse during the Civil War, and founder of the American Red Cross.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LAKPatterson, James
Summary: A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC, leaving behind no shred of evidence. Detective Alex Cross must manage the investigation, with the dubious help of a charismatic true-crime author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PATPiketty, Thomas
Summary: "The renowned economist and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century distills his research on the history of inequality into an accessible, engaging guide to creating a fairer, more sustainable world. In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and comparative research on inequalities. Addressing topics as varied as education, inheritance, the climate crisis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Strickland, Tessa
Summary: Offers a visual introduction to children from around the world, with an emphasis on what they have in common.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 STRPollack, Lew
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Music Pub. Co. 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMHalnon, Emily
Summary: "When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been: adventurous, courageous, inspiring. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She learned to swim at sixty so she could do triathlons, and she lived through a grim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences. It assesses the significance of Biblical narratives, including the "curse of Ham," in the evolution of European concepts of race, and goes on to examine the basis of institutionalized racism-entwined with fervent capitalism-on which the transatlantic slave trade operated. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program explores racial issues in Siler City, North Carolina, including: what are the effects of rapid change in racial demographics? What happens when white culture no longer dominates society? Will the future more closely resemble our segregated past, or is the nation experiencing the declining significance of race? Utilizing the writing of Eric Liu (The Accidental Asian: Notes of a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Did racist atrocities in the 19th and 20th centuries bring Western society to an ethical and ideological turning point? Or has racial oppression simply assumed other, more insidious forms? Pursuing answers, this program focuses on a pattern of segregation and genocide evident in King Leopold's Belgian Congo rampages, South Africa's apartheid rule, the terrorism of Jim Crow, and less obvious...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: They're an average American family at a typical American restaurant. They also happen to be Hispanic (not to mention that the restaurant is situated in Tucson, Arizona, a hub of our nation's ongoing immigration debate) From out of nowhere, an off-duty security guard asks to see their documentation, and as he grows more insistent, the other diners nervously consider what steps, if any, to take....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010