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Summary: Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramla, fed up with dieting and the dieting club they belong to, discover the world of Sumo, where large people are honored and appreciated.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAT

Summary: To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUT

Summary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PG

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ha

Murphy, Julie

Summary: Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

Karmel, Ian

Summary: "Part memoir, part support group, comedian Ian Karmel with help from his sister Alisa, a clinical psychologist, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and traces the way that fat-gaining it, losing it, worrying about it, trying to hide it-dictates the way so many of us live"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARMEL, IAN KAR

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