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Weightless: the art of Geneva Bowers / by Bowers, Geneva.(CARDINAL)797983;
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Drawing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Weightless : Making space for my resilient body and soul [sound recording]/ by Dionne, Evette,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)834439;
Read by Evette Dionne.In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black woman are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to diagnosis with heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love.Title from disc label.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Human body; Body image.; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Cross-cultural studies.; Social values.; Aesthetics.; Body image; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Women, Black.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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WEIGHTLESS: A DOCTOR'S GUIDE TO GLP-1 MEDICATIONS, SUSTAINABLE WEIGHT LOSS, AND THE HEALTH YOU DESERVE by Salas-Whalen, Rocio,author.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Weightless : a novel / by Bannan, Sarah,1978-(CARDINAL)618462;
"When 15-year-old Carolyn moves from New Jersey to Alabama with her mother, she rattles the status quo of the junior class at Adams High School. A good student and natural athlete, she's immediately welcomed by the school's cliques. She's even nominated to the homecoming court and begins dating a senior, Shane, whose on again/off again girlfriend Brooke becomes Carolyn's bitter romantic rival. When a video of Carolyn and Shane making out is sent to everyone, Carolyn goes from golden girl to slut, as Brooke and her best friend Gemma try to restore their popularity. Gossip and bullying hound Carolyn, who becomes increasingly private and isolated. When Shane and Brooke--now back together--confront Carolyn in the student parking lot, injuring her, it's the last attack she can take. Sarah Bannan's deft use of the first person plural gives Weightless an emotional intensity and remarkable power that will send you flying through the pages and leave you reeling"--1040LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Bullying; Cyberbullying; High school students; Teenage girls; Bullying.; Cyberbullying.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Weightless : making space for my resilient body and soul / by Dionne, Evette,author.;
"In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she lifts the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are either rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love. An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Dionne, Evette.; Women, Black; African American women authors; African American women; Overweight women; Overweight persons; Discrimination against overweight women.; Racism; Sexism; Self-realization in women.; Self-esteem in women.; Racism.; Sexism.;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 19
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Weightless : my life as a fat man and how I escaped / by McBride, Gregg.(CARDINAL)617513;
"Gregg McBride was always determined to make it big--although not quite this literally. By the time he was a young adult, Gregg McBride topped the scales at over 450 pounds and wore a sixty-inch belt. Pretending airline seatbelts fit across his belly, eating out of the trash to cheat on his diets, and working as an overweight stripper are just some of the misadventures Gregg endured as he continually tried to win his battle of the bulge. It was only when Gregg took an inward journey that he was able to free himself from his food addiction and take off more than 250 pounds of excess weight, which he's kept off for over a decade. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking in its honesty, "Weightless" is a tale of "food gone wrong" that chronicles the before, the during, and the after in a way no other book has, and will move, educate, entertain, and inspire anyone who is ready for change."--back cover.
Subjects: Biographies.; McBride, Gregg; Dieters; Weight loss.; Reducing diets.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Growing up weightless / by Ford, John M.,author.(CARDINAL)725761; Spufford, Francis,writer of introduction.;
"Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a "lost generation" of young people born on the human-colonized Moon. Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna-and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna's increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where there is no more need for exploration, for innovation, for radical ideas-and where his every movement can be tracked by his father on the infonets. Matt and five of his friends, equally brilliant and restless, have planned a secret adventure. They will trick the electronic sentinels, slip out of the city for a journey to Farside. Their passage into the expanse of perpetual night will change them in ways they never could have predicted...and bring Matt to the destiny for which he has yearned. With a new introduction by Francis Spufford, author of Red Plenty and Golden Hill. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Science fiction.; Twenty-first century; Fathers and sons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This weightless world : a novel / by Soto, Adam,author.;
When a mysterious signal arrives from outer space, first seen as a symbol of hope, three people, forced to reckon with its aftermath, begin to feel the weight of past mistakes in order to move towards the future."A debut novel subverting a classic sci-fi trope set in gentrified Chicago, the tech boom corridors of Silicon Valley, and across the vastness of the cosmos. 'The Weightless World' follows a revolving cast of characters after a mysterious signal from outer space upends their lives. Sevi is a burned-out music teacher desperate for connection, fighting to find meaning in rekindled love. Ramona, his on-again, off-again computer programmer girlfriend is determined to build an AI to prevent mankind's destruction. And Eason, Sevi's cello protégé, is struggling after his high school in Chicago is shuttered and he is forced to measure his commitment to an estranged childhood friend against the change of escaping neighborhood troubles. When the signal-at first seen as a sign of hope-stops as abruptly as it started, they are all forced to reckon with its aftermath. A dazzling deconstruction of science-fiction tropes, 'This Weightless World' looks to the past for a vision of the future." --
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Human-alien encounters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You wouldn't want to live without gravity! / by Rooney, Anne,author.(CARDINAL)350406; Bergin, Mark,1961-illustrator.(CARDINAL)428081;
Explains the principles of gravity, discussing the effect that gravity has on the Earth and on the human body and the consequences when gravity is either increased or decreased.980LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Gravity; Weightlessness;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Zero gravity / by Skurzynski, Gloria.(CARDINAL)723260;
Subjects: Gravitation; Weightlessness; Gravity; Astronautics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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