Summary: Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BECLurie, John
Summary: "'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LURIE, JOHN LURHermez, Sami
Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HERLemmey, Huw
Summary: "Part revisionist history, part historical biography, Bad Gays is based on the hugely popular podcast series. The book subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality, and identity through its villains and baddies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 LEMLoyie, Oskiniko Larry
Summary: Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LOYIE LOYSummary: A gifted athlete from Fall River, Massachusetts, Chris Herren was a basketball legend before he left high school. After a troubled yet outstanding career at Fresno State, he would eventually fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics, only to lose it all to a devastating addiction that nearly killed him. Award-winning director Jonathan Hock chronicles this powerful story of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNGKimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMLucey, Donna M.
Summary: "In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer traveled between her father's Rocky Mountain castle and the medieval...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LUCMarshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MARLocke, Katherine
Summary: "Explore the history to trans and nonbinary people throughout history and the world in this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book for young teens. Readers will be educated and enlightened about trans and nonbinary people who have made a difference in our world and who continue to help raise awareness of diversity and inclusion in current society. Introductory materials give readers an insight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 LOCSchwarcz, Luiz
Summary: "A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Láios-"Luiz" in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWARCZ, LUIZ SCHCrippa, Luca
Summary: "Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRASSE, WILHELM CRIHodge, Susie
Summary: Why did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt obsess over painting his own image? What's the secret behind the Terracotta Army, or Andy Warhol's soup cans? Art: Explained offers straightforward and satisfying answers to 100 of these fascinating questions. If you've ever looked at an art masterpiece in awe, but wondered just what it means, here is your guide.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HODGutman, Dan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn't know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BALHerman, Gail
Summary: Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KINGHerman, Gail
Summary: "An entertaining biography of the man behind Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, two of the best loved children's books of all time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHIHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)— she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist—and was determined to make that dream come true."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURNadler, Steven M.
Summary: "This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world ... Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADZ͡Hadan, Serhiĭ
Summary: "When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian atrocities."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 ZHAWoolever, Laurie
Summary: When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, people have been granted a look into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOURDAIN, ANTHONY WOOZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annies dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ZALESKI, LAURIE ZALRoyal, Sarah
Summary: An intimate and deeply original exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, Lucille Bal--A.K.A. Lucy. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, [this book] details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, LUCILLE ROYHanlon, Luke
Summary: "During his superstar NBA career, Kobe Bryant wowed fans with his scoring ability and drive to win. And he remains an icon of the sport even after his tragic death in a 2020 helicopter crash. This title gives fans the in-depth history of the life and career of this legendary basketball player. The title features informative fast facts, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. SportsZone is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BRYANT HANLaurie, Greg
Summary: At the peak of his career, Johnny Cash had done it all: a rags-to-riches sensation singing alongside Presley and performing for presidents. But in 1971 the middle-aged icon was searching for peace. At the end of his life, Cash was speaking openly about his "unshakeable faith." Laurie and Terrill dive into Cash's inner demons, triumphs, and gradual return to faith, and reveal how the singer's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books 2019