Levi, Lia

Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEV

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEVI LEV

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEV

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEV

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Levi

Morillo, Elio

Summary: "Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORILLO, ELIO MOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MORILLO MOR

Lieu, Susan

Summary: "An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIE

Lima, Jamie Kern

Summary: "Shares the wild but true story of how a once struggling waitress turned her against-the-grain idea into an international bestselling sensation, eventually selling the company for over a billion dollars and becoming the first female CEO of a brand in L'Oraeal's 100+ year history. Faced with self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, Jamie reveals how she almost didn't make it, how she learned to trust...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIMA, JAMIE KERN LIM

Carroll, Leah

Summary: "Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARROLL, LEAH CAR

Myers, Leah

Summary: "Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYERS, LEAH MYE

Ebert, Lily

Summary: A ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor--and TikTok sensation thanks to her great-grandson--relays the details of her harrowing experiences at Auschwitz and how, after losing so much, she was able to build a new life for her family and herself.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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Messer, Leah

Summary: "Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV's groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen--from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2020

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

Diaz, Joey Coco

Summary: Joey Diaz wasn't always a star, but he was always a comedian, it just took him a while to figure it out. To be fair, much of his youth was spent in addiction and depression until he found his calling.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DIAZ, JOEY DIA