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Big girls don't cry : a memoir about taking up space / by Swan, Susan,1945-author.; Atwood, Margaret,1939-writer of foreword.;
"Swan examines the expectations of women of her generation and beyond using the lens of her then-unusual height as a metaphor for the way women are expected not to take up space in the world"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Swan, Susan, 1945-; Tall people; Tall women; Authors, Canadian (English); Women authors, Canadian (English);
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Texas tall / by Dailey, Janet,author.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Ranchers; Divorced people;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The bad weather friend / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.;
When he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of - a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Friendship; Good and evil; Inheritance and succession; Real estate agents; Uncles; Unemployment; Waitresses;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The bad weather friend [sound recording] / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.; Chase, Ray,narrator.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ray Chase.When he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of - a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Friendship; Good and evil; Inheritance and succession; Real estate agents; Uncles; Unemployment; Waitresses;
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Size : how it explains the world / by Smil, Vaclav,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."To answer the most important questions of our age, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards: the rise of the West, for example, was a direct result of ever more accurate and standardized measurements. Using the interdisciplinary approach that has won him a wide readership, Smil draws upon history, earth science, psychology, art, and more to offer fresh insight into some of our biggest challenges, including income inequality, the spread of infectious disease, and the uneven impacts of climate change. Size explains the regularities--and peculiarities--of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages). This book about the big and the small, and the relationship between them, answers the big and small questions of human existence: What makes a human society too big? What about a human being? Which alternative energy sources have the best chance of scaling and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels? Why do tall people make more money? What makes a face beautiful? How about a cathedral? How can changing the size of your plates help you lose weight? The latest masterwork of "an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences" (Wired) Size is a mind-bending journey that turns the modern world on its head."--
Subjects: Size perception.; Stature.;
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Secrets of the Brain. by Productions, Lambent,film director.; A Tall Order (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by A Tall Order in 2016.Neuroscientist Dr. Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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The soulmate / by Hepworth, Sally,author.;
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral ... Did the victim jump? Was she pushed? And would Gabe, the love of Pippa's life, her soulmate ... lie? As the perfect facade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; Married people; Suicidal behavior;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The soulmate [sound recording] / by Hepworth, Sally,author.; Kreinik, Barrie,narrator.; Douglas-Henry, Jessica,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Barrie Kreinik, Jessica Douglas-Henry."Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral ... Did the victim jump? Was she pushed? And would Gabe, the love of Pippa's life, her soulmate ... lie? As the perfect facade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Betrayal; Married people; Suicidal behavior;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Where the truth lies / by Bailey, Anna,1995-author.;
"When 17-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her only friend alone at the Tall Bones party that night, sets out to find the truth about what happened to Abi. But as the details unfold, the festering secrets and longstanding resentments of the people of Whispering Ridge, Colorado, begin to surface with devastating consequences."--Amazon.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Missing persons; Best friends; City and town life;
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Fight or submit : standing tall in two worlds / by Derrickson, Ronald M.,author.;
"In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his "story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles" that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. "As a businessman," he writes, "I like to give the straight goods." In Fight or Submit, Derrickson delivers on his promise and it turns out he has a hell of a story to tell. Born and raised in a tarpaper shack, he went on to become one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada. As a political leader, he served as Chief of the Westbank First Nation for a dozen years and was made a Grand Chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Along the way, he has been the target of a full Royal Commission and an assassination attempt by a hitman hired by local whites. As Chief, he increased his community's revenues by 3500% and led his people into a war in the forest over logging rights. In 2015, he became an award-winning author when Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call, a book he co-authored with Arthur Manuel, won the Canadian History Association Literary Award. His second book co-authored with Manuel, Reconciliation Manifesto, won the B.C. Book Prize for non-fiction."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Derrickson, Ronald M.; Businessmen;
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