Felt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELSummary: Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC POPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD POPDark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARK, KIMBERLY DARShapiro, Ari
Summary: "In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPIRO, ARI SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHAPIRO SHACary, Lorene
Summary: Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARY CARShapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPIRO, DANI SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHAPIRO SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShapiroSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATDe Hart, Jane Sherron
Summary: "The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER DEHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG DEHSummary: Every family has its secrets. Director Peter Stephan Jungk had always known that his Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. But it was not until twenty years after her death in 1973 that he learned she had led a double life, and changed the course of history. Jungk unravels what had been a well-kept secret by speaking with military historians, photo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRATimberlake, Justin
Summary: "In his first book, Justin Timberlake creates a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid photographs from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage. Justin discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TIMBERLAKE, JUSTIN TIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TIMBERLAKE TIMSummary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURCarr, Erin Lee
Summary: "A celebrated journalist, bestselling author, and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he collapsed in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker at age twenty-seven, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence--1,936 items in total. What started as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARR, ERIN LEE CARCarl, Polly K.
Summary: "A remarkable, deeply moving memoir of one man's gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARL, POLLY K. CARSummary: The documentary provides an intimate look at Heath Ledger through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his own personal journey. It was his creative energy and unshakable willingness to take risks that instilled such an extraordinary deep love and affection in the people that entered his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017