Lancaster, Jen
Summary: A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANLancaster, Jen
Summary: Describes the author's haphazard attempts to make and fulfill a bucket list involving humiliating experiments with tattoo removal, eating pasta in Rome, and navigating a menagerie of rescued pets
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANLancaster, John
Summary: Reclaiming one of the most important moments in American aviation history, this incredible, untold story recounts the transcontinental air race of October 1919, which riveted a nation as the aviators pioneered the first coast-to-coast air route, despite much drama and tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.5 LANLancaster, Jen
Summary: Lancaster attempts to achieve cultural enlightenment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010
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Summary: Recounts the author's search for domestic bliss as she embraces the word of Martha Stewart and attempts to follow her in all things, from closet organization to stain removal, with laughably disastrous results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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Summary: Jen Lancaster shares her humorous views of life in the city, recounting some of her most memorable experiences living in Chicago and explaining why city life is nothing like what it is portrayed as on television.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007
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Summary: The author attempts to act her age by trying her hand at investment-making, getting a mortgage, and obtaining life insurance, and describes the humorous results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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Summary: The author offers a humorous look at her life and wardrobe, recounting her less-than-virtuous stint as a Girl Scout, colorful family gatherings, her fashion faux pas at a sorority rush, her climb up and down the corporate ladder, and her success as a writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANHerriot, James.
Summary: Here are Buster, the kitten who arrived on Christmas; Alfred, the cat at the sweet shop; little Emily, who lived with the gentleman tramp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 HERHerriot, James.
Summary: Presents a collection of stories about dogs that James Herriot came to know through his practice as a veterinary surgeon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 636.7 HerriotHerriot, James.
Summary: Continues the experiences of a country veterinarian in Yorkshire, England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1981
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Place a hold to request this item.Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)
Summary: "This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, HARRIET JACDunbar, Erica Armstrong
Summary: An audio original collection of primary source documents written by 19th century Black women along with author Erica Armstrong Dunbar's own context, insights, and story-telling talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.72 DUNKeizer, Garret.
Summary: "In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voicesof the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school--literally--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373 KEIHerriot, James
Summary: Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2014
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Summary: In the midst of World War II, the Yorkshire veterinarian muses on past adventures through the Yorkshire dales, visiting with old friends and introducing scores of new characters--both human and animal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HerriotHerriot, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 HERHerriot, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.28 HERLaveau-Harvie, Vicki
Summary: "In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAVEAU-HARVIE, VICKI LAVNorwich, Grace.
Summary: An introduction to the life of the civil rights heroine and suffrage activist describes how she repeatedly risked her life to save dozens of slaves and became an equal rights icon in post-Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUBMcDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Summary: A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 TUBHerriot, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1973
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Place a hold to request this item.Herriot, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HERHerriot, James.
Summary: Continues the memoirs of Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, as life for Herriot, his wife, and two children gets back to normal after World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2015