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"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
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Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn’t have: a father for her child– and she’s spent many years dodging her daughter’s questions about it. Now Phoebe is old enough to start poking around on her own. It doesn’t help matters that the mystery man, B.J. Johnson–the...
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"Molly McKenzie has made social media influencing a lucrative career, but nailing a TV show means proving she's as good in real life as she is online. So she volunteers with a youth program. Challenged at every turn by the program director, Silas, and the kids' struggles, she's surprised by her growing attachment. Has her perfect life been imperfectly built?"--
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"Lacy Marie Crocker has settled into a comfortable groove back home in New Orleans, and with Valentine's Day right around the corner, she's busier than ever running a thriving pet boutique, helping her mother organize the upcoming National Pet Pageant, and untangling her complicated love life. But when delivering a king-sized order of dreidel-shaped doggy biscuits for a Saint Berdoodle's bark-mitzvah, Lacy stumbles into yet another murder scene--and...
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In our difficult time, or at any time, knowing how to find a great job is a necessaryskill. All the resources you need for a successful job search are at yourfingertips-and completely free-at your public library. It can be a dauntingtask, so here is expert advice on how to conduct proper research, build networksof friends and colleagues, put together a great resume, research industries thatare constantly changing, prepare for an interview, negotiate...
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The "compelling" story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds-and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe).
On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index-how the temperature actually feels on the body-would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids...
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Disability Pride 2023
Illinois Libraries Present Season 3 (Winter/Spring 2024)
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"Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum. International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum. Examples and stories bring the approaches to life, and detailed suggestions and checklists help readers put them to practical use. Temple Grandin shares personal...
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For LGBTQ youth, finding a community of supportive and affirming friends and allies can make all the difference as they find their way in the world. But finding that community can be challenging. This book will point the way toward discovering like-minded people who share your interests. No matter your sexuality, gender identity, race, religion, or personal interests, there is a place for you in the LGBTQ community and a support network of people...
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The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury. To many soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next even completing tasks as seemingly easy as submitting paperwork can be overwhelming and confusing. Written with these men and women in mind, The Wounded Warrior Handbook provides our wounded heroes and their families with quick, straightforward...
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders. The process of building a culture that supports care is a key component to restoring the American dream, and, as Ai-Jen Poo convincingly argues, will generate millions...
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Jaded bounty hunter Bryan Kelly is head-over-hormones in lust with a woman--and what she does to his senses is criminal.
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Helping Children with Life-Threatening Medical Issues explores the crisis of serious illnesses in children and the people and organizations that are working to eliminate the problem. This title also focuses on people who have been helped, the progress that has already been made, and the challenges still left to be met. The young reader analyzes the stories and develops his or her own opinion of what can be done to solve the childhood health crisis....
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"In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn stands a century-old row house presided over by renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, Evelyn and her fellow sisters make Mercy House a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Women like Lucia, who arrives in the dead of night; Mei-Li, the Chinese and Russian house veteran; Desiree, a loud and proud prostitute; Esther, a Haitian immigrant...
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"Homelessness is an issue that affects people all around the world, including many children. But how can we help people experiencing homelessness? This book introduces arguments for different approaches to dealing with the issue of homelessness. Readers will learn the common reasons behind homelessness and how different solutions may help. Readers will be able to create an informed opinion through examining arguments, reading fact boxes, and exploring...
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Focusing on Herold's struggle with the Veterans Administration and city agencies to find the help he needs, When I Came Home reveals a failing system and exposes the "second war" that many veterans must fight after they return home from war. At his breaking point, Herold meets fellow vet Paul Rieckhoff, founder of the country's largest veteran advocacy organization. What follows is a media blitz that helps to transform Herold from homeless vet into...
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Providing advice on how professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults can tailor their practice to best serve their clients and how parents can support their trans autistic children, this book increases awareness of the large overlap between trans identities and autism.
By including chapters on gender diversity basics, neuroqueer trauma and how to support neuroqueer individuals, this book sets out strategies for creating more effective
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The Business of Dog Walking is a comprehensive guide to creating – or improving – a solid dog-walking business in eBook format. To be a successful dog walker, you must be dog savvy and business savvy, a combination of skills that do not always come natural to people. If you are serious about becoming a professional dog walker, this book is a must-read.
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"Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy's southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism and hoping to make a new life in Europe. Dr. Pietro Bartolo, who runs the lone medical clinic on the island, has been caring for many of them--both the living and the dead--for a quarter century....
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Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults...
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