Nietfeld, Emi
Summary: "A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult NietfeldDemi.
Summary: Presents an illustrated biography of Joan of Arc, from her early vision of Archangel Michael to her military victories, and eventual execution at the stake for heresy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOADemi.
Summary: Recounts pivotal events in the history and life of Saint Nicholas, including how he came to be associated with Christmas and Santa Claus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday DemiDemi.
Summary: Describes the life and journeys of the Italian trader who became famous for his travels in Asia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 915.04 DEMDemi
Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001
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Summary: A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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Summary: Shares the story of the son of a rich merchant, who abandoned all his worldly goods in order to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 DEMDemi.
Summary: Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURDemi.
Summary: Introduces Muhammad and the basic tenets of the Islamic faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 DEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB MUHAMMAD DEMFaber, Eli
Summary: "Eli Faber, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has written a narrative history of the case of George Stinney, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was executed for the alleged murder of two white girls (ages 8 and11) in June 1944. This made Stinney the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. In 2014, a circuit court judge in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 FABSaslow, Eli
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a powerful account of Derek Black's journey from white supremacist hero to apostle of tolerance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DEREK SASNeufeld, Michael J.
Summary: Offers a multifaceted portrait of the visionary German scientist who became the chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich, creator of the V-2 rocket, reluctant SS officer, and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf in association with the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VON BRAUN WENHER NEUMoore, Demi
Summary: "Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, Demi battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years all while juggling a skyrocketing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MOORE MOOBen-Hanan, Eli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHFrankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil)
Summary: Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2006
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Summary: An unforgettable David and Goliath-style legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation, and one lawyer's quest to expose the truth about this previously unknown--and still unregulated--chemical that presents one of the greatest human health crises of the 21st century. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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Summary: The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us over and over again). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth century's greatest radicals and most compelling figures. At his funeral in 2016, eulogists said Ali...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MUHAMMED, ALI EIGKrogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KROCai, Chongda
Summary: "An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAI, CHONGDA CAIBui, Thi
Summary: The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1957
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETDiFranco, Ani
Summary: "A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIFRANCO, ANI DIFKatwala, Amit
Summary: Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley. The inventors, John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023