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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.133 SINGER, ISAAC TELMeyers, Dvora.
Summary: In The end of the perfect 10, Dvora Meyers provides an account of the controversial world of gymnastics, the recent changes to the scoring system, and what these changes mean for the future of American gymnastics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.4 MEYScorah, Amber
Summary: A first book by the creator of the "Dear Amber" podcast describes her strict upbringing as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness and her efforts to find her true place in the world apart from the edicts of her family and faith. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She took the message to China, where immersion in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: A television producer and writer recounts how he helped his wife restore a three-hundred-year-old Italian farmhouse and found unexpected renewal from the project, the region, and his eccentric new neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 DORWang, Dora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 WANKaufman, Bob
Summary: "Collected for the first time, the complete surviving works of a major African-American Beat Surrealist poet."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAULofts, Norah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 LOFVincent, Norah.
Summary: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at time very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VINCENT, NORAH VINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: B Vincent VinMark, Sabrina Orah
Summary: "The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARK, SABRINA ORAH MARCadbury, Deborah
Summary: An exploration of Queen Victoria's matchmaking exploits details how she used her grandchildren to further the influence of the British Empire, despite their own plans and the turmoil that rocked Europe starting in the nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VICTORIA CADCadbury, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590.9 CADCopaken, Deborah
Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPAKEN, DEBORAH COPDavis, Deborah
Summary: Shares the story behind the creation of Sargent's famous painting, which propelled the artist to fame but condemned his young subject to a lifetime of ridicule and self-loathing due to the work's perceived sexuality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 DAVHeiligman, Deborah
Summary: "The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 HEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 HEIHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOOMills, Deborah
Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: "Deborah Rodriquez's memoir of her journey of self-discovery and renewal after she was forced to flee Afghanistan in 2007"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RODRIGUEZ, DEBORAH RODStein, Deborah.
Summary: After discovering that she was born in a prison to a heroin-addicted mother, the author recalls her subsequent descent into drugs and crime and her recovery as she finds forgiveness and acceptance for both her real and adopted mothers."Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial features set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEIN, DEBORAH STETannen, Deborah
Summary: "A New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking bookabout women and men, and praised by Oliver Sacks as having "a novelist's ear for the way people speak," Deborah Tannen was a little girl who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANNEN, ELI SAMUEL TANWiles, Deborah
Summary: "Bobby is the story of Robert F. Kennedy, as told by a grandfather to his grandchild. Born in 1925 into a family of great privilege, Bobby was a prominent American politician and lawyer who learned to use his advantages in life to make a difference."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENBlum, Deborah
Summary: "Coming of Age focuses on five years in Mead's young life when she began to question the traditional attitudes toward sex, courtship and marriage that dominated the early 20th century. The story begins in 1921, when Mead is a young woman of twenty and a student at Barnard College in New York City. Conventional enough to accept the role society has handed to her, and defiant enough to rise up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEAD, MARGARET BLUBlum, Deborah
Summary: Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley set out to ensure food safety. He selected food tasters to test various food additives and preservatives, letting them know that the substances could be harmful or deadly. The tasters were recognized for their courage, and became known as the poison squad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILEY, HARVEY WASHINGTON BLUBonello, Deborah
Summary: "Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BONCampbell, Deborah
Summary: "In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Campbell's frank, personal account of a journey through fear and the triumph of friendship and courage is as riveting as it is illuminating. The story begins in 2007, when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017