Leibovitz, Liel
Summary: Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four-occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, STAN LEIDiep, Hayley
Summary: "This dynamic picture book biography introduces readers of all ages to Wataru Misaka, the first non-white athlete to play in the NBA. Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Japanese American boy born to immigrant parents, liked to play basketball under the glow of stars and a small street lamp in Ogden, Utah. America was home to Wat, but with the onset of World War II, many people thought he didn't belong. "Go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MISDill, Khodi
Summary: An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes for little ones, their families, and anyone who loves A is for Activist and Antiracist Baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DILLeed, Percy
Summary: "David Beckham starred for great soccer teams in England, Spain, and the United States. Off the field, he's one of the biggest superstars in sports. Read about the life of a soccer celebrity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BECSummary: A fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment's indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOJHenley, Ariel
Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HENGill, Jonathan
Summary: The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent. Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORROS, BORIS GILGill, Gillian
Summary: "An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA GILGill, Charlotte
Summary: "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILL, CHARLOTTE GILSummary: The story of China's 8,000 terracotta warriors begins two centuries before the birth of Christ. The First Emperor of China was preparing an extravagant tomb for his journey into the afterlife, and decreed that he be protected forever by a monumental army. Since then no one has seen these ancient warriors in their original splendor, brightly painted and fully armed, ready to protect their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHIHill, Clint
Summary: "Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that "when you travel with someone...you experience things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, CLINT HILSmith, Jeremy N.
Summary: When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien wanted to study aerospace engineering, but she was soon drawn to the school's venerable tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original 'hacking.' Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead, two others were on trial, and two had been institutionalized. And Alien's adventures were only just beginning. After a stint at the storied, secretive...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ALIEN SMIAbramson, Jill
Summary: "Best-selling author, former executive editor of the New York Times, and self-confessed political junkie, Jill Abramson has written a detailed and fascinating book that explains how the highest court in the United States works, who gets to serve on it, which cases have had the greatest impact on the country, and why the US justice system is so vital to democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov What AbramsonHill, Fiona
Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HILL HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic HillSmith, Charles R.
Summary: "The story of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's career told in verse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HENHill, Grant
Summary: "The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey-to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace-made possible above all by a family's love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, GRANT HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HILL HILHill, Mike
Summary: "Before Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, and "Doonesbury," there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1950 to 2006, his Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCHWALD, ART HILRubalcaba, Jill.
Summary: This valuable reference book features more than 100 notable people from the Old and New Testaments, offering kids a window into the biblical world and to the important men and women who shaped religious history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220.9 RUBBiden, Jill
Summary: Joey is the first ever picture book about the young life of Joe Biden, the 47th Vice President of the United States, and includes never before told family stories about the president-elect and former vice president's childhood-written by Jill Biden, his spouse. Joe Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children. His parents always encouraged him and his siblings to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BIDSherman, Jill
Summary: Discover 25 women who challenged the status quo and fought for what they believed in. From all corners of the world, these women show us that barriers are meant to be broken and obstacles can be overcome. Learn about some of the fierce women who persevered in the face of adversity to fight for what they thought was right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 SHESherman, Jill
Summary: "Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 SHEPaul, Joel R.
Summary: A portrait of the influential chief justice, statesman, and diplomat illuminates his pivotal role in the establishment of the Constitution and Supreme Court and recounts his work as an advisor to multiple presidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018