Alabed, Bana
Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALADanza, Tony.
Summary: Entering Northeast High School's crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony Danza found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about his showbiz credentials, and immediately put him on the hot seat. I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had reveals just how hard it is to keep today's technologically savvy-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.1 DANDanta, Ron
Summary: "From the stars of 'Life in the Doghouse' on Netflix and founders of one of the most recognizable rescue organizations in the world, Finding Our Forever Home is part memoir, part care-and-keeping-of-rescue-dogs, with a heartwarming, compassionate voice and a message of acceptance, kindness, and, of course, love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 DANMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCASobel, Dava.
Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBAkana, Anna
Summary: "From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin to heal was comedy. So she began making YouTube videos as a form of creative expression and as a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AKANA, ANNA AKACurry, Dayna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CURSobel, Dava.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GALILEI, GALILEO SOBSobel, Dava.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, JOHN SOBGachman, Dina
Summary: "A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author and journalist whose experience with two devastating losses inspired her to bring comfort and understanding to others. Since losing her mother to cancer in 2018 and her sister to alcoholism less than three years later, author and journalist Dina Gachman has dedicated herself to understanding what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 GACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.9 GACHarris, Jana
Summary: In Horses Never Lie about Love, Harris Lyrically recounts how this wounded, implacable beast nevertheless held a magical influence over the other horses of the ranch, and how she eased into the role of mother after having a foal. In time she became the heart of the ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 HSRHorn, Dara
Summary: "A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Sobel, Dava
Summary: The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space SobelSobel, Dava.
Summary: Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SobelSobel, Dava.
Summary: Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.9 SOBNayeri, Dina
Summary: In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers. What is it like to be a refugee? It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 NAYMonroe, Jana
Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MONShapiro, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShapiroHarris, Jana
Summary: Recounts the author's twenty-four-year relationship with a beautiful feral mare who in spite of a troubled past has conveyed help and healing to all humans and horses she has encountered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 HARIBerry, Daina Ramey
Summary: "A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country sinceits inception"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 BEREl Kaliouby, Rana
Summary: "In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EL KALIOUBY, RANA EL KDana, Juliette Starr
Contents: "Worth a Pilgrimage": July 15-July 20, New York State -- "The Mad Tumult": July 21-July 23, Niagara -- "Lost in the Distance": July 23-July 28, Lakes Erie and Huron, Detroit -- "A Fatiguing Scramble": July 28-July 31, Mackinac -- "Wild Looking Places": August 1-August 3, Sault Ste. Marie -- "Boundary of Civilization": August 4-August 15, Lake Superior -- "Very Rough": August 16-August 22, Lake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DANRiess, Jana.
Contents: Choosing practices -- Fasting in the desert -- Meeting Jesus in the kitchen, or not -- Lectio divination -- Nixing shoppertainment -- Centering prayer, er, the Jesus prayer ... Look! A squirrel! -- Unorthodox Sabbath -- Thanksgiving every day -- Benedictine hospitality -- What would Jesus eat? -- Seven ... five ... three times a day will I praise you -- Generosity -- Practice makes imperfect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Wood, Lana
Summary: In this true crime memoir, Lana Wood offers a no-holds-barred account of the life and death of her sister, Natalie Wood, including exclusive new information from people directly involved in the investigation. Clearing up the myths and misconceptions behind her sister's death, the legendary Hollywood actress reveals the secrets she's been holding onto for decades, and in doing so, sets the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021