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Ameri, Anan

Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMERI, ANAN AME

Keane, Erin

Summary: "In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEANE, ERIN KEA

Willink, Jocko

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: With their first book, Extreme Ownership (2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin challenged readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people in both their professional and personal lives. Now, Jocko and Leif dive deeper into finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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Beresford-Kroeger, Diana

Summary: "Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERESFORD-KROEGER, DIANA BER

Williams, Emma.

Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WIL

Liontas, Annie

Summary: "Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIONTAS, ANNIE LIO

Harkema, Graci

Summary: A diversity, equity and inclusion expert committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their true selves traces her own path to finding her place in the world, revisiting her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in GrandRapids, Michigan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARKEMA, GRACI HAR

Fritz, Ian

Summary: "A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost."--Provided by the publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRITZ, IAN FRI

Shammarī, Shahd

Summary: "Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has become a professor of literature, and has managed to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and the United Kingdom and inspire generations of students. Head above Water is the intimate,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALSHAMMARI, SHAHD ALS

Faust, Drew Gilpin

Summary: "Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B FAUST FAU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Faust

Gamal, Adam

Summary: "The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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Gorani, Hala

Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024

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Elliott, Clark

Summary: "The dramatic story of one man's recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas. In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 ELL

Tamimi, Ahed

Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAM

Calhoun, Ada

Summary: "When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALHOUN, ADA CAL

Henner, Marilu

Summary: Marilu Henner was moving on with her life after a divorce when her old college classmate Michael Brown, whom she had not seen in over twenty years, called her out of nowhere. Within days of their reconnecting in 2003, they became inseparable. But only months later, Michael was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and then lung cancer. Marilu refused to lose the love of her life so easily. With the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HEN

Psaki, Jen

6 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she's learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation's interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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