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Barton, Polly Dark, Kimberly Kelly, Megyn Morley, Anders Pick-Goslar, Hannah Wizenberg, MollyBarton, Polly
Summary: "Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARTON, POLLY BARWizenberg, Molly
Summary: "At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but she felt that something insider her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIZENBERG, MOLLY WIZMorley, Anders
Summary: "A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORLEY, ANDERS MORPick-Goslar, Hannah
Summary: "Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICK-GOSLAR, HANNAH PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICK-GOSLAR GOSKelly, Megyn
Summary: Megyn Kelly, one of the most respected, hardest-hitting TV journalists in America, speaks candidly about her decision to "settle for more" -- a motto she credits as having changed her life, and the reason she abandoned a thriving legal career to follow her dream in the news business. She opens up about Donald Trump's feud with her, and the challenges she has faced as a professional woman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KELLY, MEGYN KELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KELLY KELDark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019