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Abnormalities, Human Etiology Cohen, Leonard 1934-2016 Drug addicts California Biography Juvenile literature Drug addicts Rehabilitation California Juvenile literature Friedman, Matti Indians of North America Colonization Matis, Aspen Methamphetamine abuse California Biography Juvenile literature Self-realization in women United StatesSheff, Nic.
Summary: Sheff writes candidly about stints at in-patient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHEKrawec, Patty
Summary: "Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 KRAWatts, Reggie.
Summary: Growing up as the only biracial kid in Great Falls, Montana, the comedian, musician and band leader takes us through his story, hitting upon the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to Montana--a place he needed to leave, but is ultimately drawn back to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATTS, REGGIE WATSheff, Nic.
Summary: The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHEWatts, Steven
Summary: Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T brought the automobile to the masses and triggered the consumer revolution. Ford first made the automobile affordable, but grew skeptical of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.7 WATNir, Yehuda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 NIRNin, Anais
Contents: v. 1. 1931-1934.--v. 2. 1934-1939.--v.3 1939-1944.--v.4 1944-1947.--v.5 1947-1955.--v.6 1955-1966.--v. 7. 1966-1974.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 NIN, ANAIS NINWatt, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1961 WATBetts, Kate
Summary: As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a faraway place and becoming a glamorous foreign correspondent. After college--and not without trepidation--she took off for Paris, renting a room in the apartment of a young BCBG (bon chic, bon genre) family and throwing herself into the local culture. She was determined to master French slang, style, and savoir faire,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTS, KATE BETKates, Gary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.034 KATWaits, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Helena Independent Record 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 WAIFriedman, Matti
Summary: The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs. In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, LEONARD FRILatus, Janine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.8292 LATMatis, Aspen
Summary: When Aspen Matis's husband, Justin, left to attend a funeral, he never came back. Shock, grief, fear, and anger battled for control, but nothing prepared her for the disarming truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATIS, ASPEN MATDirie, Waris.
Summary: Fashion model and UN ambassador Waris Dirie recounts her life, from her roots as a desert nomad in Somalia, her escape from an arranged marriage, her modeling career, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virago 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.152 DIRIE, WARIS DIRFriedman, Matti
Summary: "Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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Summary: "Essays regarding natural features of Isle Royale National Park and other locations pertaining to trees and nature."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2017
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word FoersterFlair, Ric
Summary: "Ric Flair is a 16-time World Champion and two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee. His four-decades long career is recognized as one of the greatest of all time, but with success comes a price ... His life away from the cameras includes personal struggles, controversy, and family tragedy. Through his bond with [his daughter] Charlotte, he's becoming the father he needs to be while rediscovering the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: "A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 PRAMedina, Nico
Summary: RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUPNix, Megan
Summary: "An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIX, MEGAN NIXPotts, Monica
Summary: "Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTMedina, Nico
Summary: A history of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s spotlights the heroic efforts of AIDS activists who fought for medical research and new medicines, for proper health care for patients, and for compassionate recognition of people with AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social What MedinaMattis, James N.
Summary: "Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019