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Grow fruit / by Buckingham, Alan,author.; Bradley, Fern Marshall,consultant.;
A fool-proof guide to growing more than 50 different fruit crops--from apples to strawberries and walnuts to whitecurrants. Includes a quick-reference year planner to work out when to plant, prune and harvest, as well as easy-to-follow techniques for all levels of expertise and every type of growing space from allotments and greenhouses to patios and roof terraces.
Subjects: Fruit-culture.; Fruit.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability / by Blake, Melissa(Blogger),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies, all taken during a lovely vacation in the Big Apple: "I wanted desperately to clap back at these vile trolls in a way that would make a statement, not only about how our society views disabilities, but also about the toxicity of our strict and unrealistic beauty standards. Of course I knew that posting those selfies wasn't going to erase the nasty names I'd been called and, the chances were, they would never even see my tweet, but that didn't matter. I wasn't doing it for them; I was doing it for me and every single disabled person who has been bullied before, online and in real life. When people mock how I look, they're not just insulting me. They're insulting all disabled people. We're constantly told that we're repulsive and ugly and not good enough to be seen. This was me pushing back against that toxic, ableist narrative. For the first time, I felt like I was doing something empowering, taking back my power and changing the story." Her tweet went viral, attracting worldwide media attention and interviews with the BBC, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, PEOPLE magazine, Good Morning America and E! News. Now, in her manifesto, Beautiful People, Blake shares her truths about disability, writing about (among other things): the language we use to describe disabled people, ableism, microaggressions, and their pernicious effects, what it's like to live in a society that not only isn't designed for you, but actively operates to render you invisible, her struggles with self image and self acceptance, the absence of disabled people in popular culture, why disabled people aren't tragic heroes. Blake also tells the stories of some of the heroes of the disability rights movement in America, in doing so rescuing their incredible achievements from near total obscurity. Highlighting other disabled activists and influencers, Blake's work is the calling card of a powerful voice -- one that has sparked new, different, better conversations about disability."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Blake, Melissa (Blogger); Civil rights.; Human rights workers; Human rights.; People with disabilities.; People with disabilities;
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Happy Halloween, teal pumpkin! / by Platt, Cynthia.; Panczyszyn, Shauna Lynn.;
Friends dressed in snazzy costumes jump, hop, and skip from trunk to trunk collecting all kinds of treats--from the farmer's sticky-delicious caramel apples to the local librarian's scary and not-so-scary stories. Older Halloween fans take the chance to eat their own fair share of the candy, but everyone agrees that the sweetest treat of all is belonging to the community!Ages newborn-4.
Subjects: Board books.; Halloween; Pumpkin;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Traffic : genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral / by Smith, Ben(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000's, in that brief moment after the first dotcom crash and before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech's center of gravity. There, within a few square blocks, Nick Denton's merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti's sunnier crew at HuffPost and Buzzfeed were building the foundations of click-bait media. It was tech's age of innocence: the old establishment might have been discredited by the Iraq War, but digital news would facilitate the spread of truth. Progressive activists were first to the scene, and for a while it seemed they were the scene. After all, didn't they get Barack Obama elected? Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief, was either there or talked to everyone who was, and in his trademark fashion, he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity scored with dark wit, sparing no one--and certainly not himself. Denton and Gawker were seen at the time as the black hats, but in Smith's hands the story is much more nuanced: yes, Denton's ideology of radical transparency was problematic, but at least he had an ideology. Jonah Peretti survived long after Denton's Gawker perished because his focus on clicks was relentlessly content-agnostic. But as with the proverbial sorcerer's apprentice, unintended consequences began to gain momentum. At the heart of Traffic is one of the great ironies of our time: the internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. As Smith and his colleagues and rivals thought they were inventing digital media, other figures, flickering around the margins of their story, had different designs. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart and Gavin McInnes and Chris Poole, the creator of 4chan, all seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah and crew were the stars. By 2020, any reasonable observer might wonder if the opposite wasn't the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Denton, Nicholas.; Peretti, Jonah.; Digital media; Internet industry; News Web sites;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strawberry Shortcake. [videorecording] / by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;
Get ready for sweet treats galore in three delicious adventures. When Apple praises a cake of Strawberry's that's not so tasty, she must make it right in "The Berry Best Taste Test." Sour and Apple's pals encourage them to find a recipe for friendship in "The Berry Best Biscuit." And when the girls help Berrykin Bloom in the "Hot Sauce Cook Off," they soon discover how heated competition can get.G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Strawberry Shortcake (Fictitious character); Friendship; Baking;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sheep go to sleep / by Shaw, Nancy(Nancy E.); Apple, Margot.;
At the end of the day, tired sheep return to their shed but none can sleep until the collie arrives, giving a hug, a drink of water, and more until all have begun to snore.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Sheep; Collie; Dogs; Bedtime;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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John Deere farm days. [videorecording] / by Deere & Company.; TM Books and Video, Inc.;
Discover the important role bees play in the growing process. Tour County Line Orchard where we check out the apples and watch how they make donuts. Then zip over to the Los Angeles Equestrian Center where kids learn to jump and ride horses. We visit the famous Santa Anita Race Track where race horses work out. You will also go to the Peg Perego factory and see how the John Deere Gator riding vehicle is made.G.DVD.
Subjects: Deere & Company.; Agriculture.; Children's films.; Documentary films.; Farms.; John Deere tractors.; Video recordings for children.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sheep go to sleep / by Shaw, Nancy(Nancy E.); Apple, Margot.;
At the end of the day, tired sheep return to their shed but none can sleep until the collie arrives, giving a hug, a drink of water, and more until all have begun to snore.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Sheep; Collie; Dogs; Bedtime;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Boo Cow / by Baehr, Patricia Goehner.; Apple, Margot.;
When Mr. and Mrs. Noodleman start a chicken farm, they are terrorized by a ghostly cow that seems to be keeping the hens from laying any eggs, but upon further investigation they discover the real culprit.LSC
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Humorous fiction.; Cows; Chickens; Farm life; Ghosts; Humorous stories.;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bad data : why we measure the wrong things and often miss the metrics that matter / by Schryvers, Peter,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Performance; Quantitative research;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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