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Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISSMAN, MICHAELE WEIKealing, Bob.
Summary: A view of the music and life of Gram Parsons and his influence on country rock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 KEAPiesing, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIEMichaelis, David.
Summary: A portrait of the late creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip evaluates how his career was shaped by his midwestern working-class origins, family losses, and wartime experiences, offering insight into how familiar storylines closely reflected Schulz's private life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5092 MICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULZ, CHARLES MichaelisSebastian, Mihail
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5381 SEBDekel, Mikhal
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DEKZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 ZYGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol ZygarZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 ZYGKhodorkovskiĭ, Mikhail
Summary: "An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider. "I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KHOParadis, Michel
Summary: A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 PARSummary: François André Michaux (1770–1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world’s first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 the English botanist and one of the greatest plant explorers of North America, Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859), prepared supplementary volumes to Michaux’s landmark work, The North American Sylva....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 TREDenhollander, Rachael
Summary: "Recipient of Sports Illustrated's Inspiration of the Year Award and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People (2018) "Who is going to tell these little girls that what was done to them matters? That they are seen and valued, that they are not alone and they are not unprotected?" Rachael Denhollander's voice was heard around the world when she spoke out to end the most shocking scandal in US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DENHOLLANDER, RACHAEL DENHarper, Michele
Summary: "A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARPER, MICHELE HARZackheim, Michele.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ZACHarris, Rachael Lee
Summary: Rachael Lee Harris spent her early childhood locked in an autistic fog until beginning her journey from a fragmented world to one in which things began to make sense. Rachael's determination to take her place in society led her down many paths, from beauty therapist to Catholic nun, from mother and wife to divorcee and working mom. Today, she is a psychotherapist specializing in helping others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind HarrisMandela, Nelson
Summary: Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON MANFranck, Michael (Michael S.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 FRALewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.8 LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science LewisAbleman, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 ABLAzerrad, Michael
Summary: In 1993, Michael Azerrad published Come as you are: the story of Nirvana, which stands as the definitive biography of Nirvana, the legendary band that upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. Written with the band's complete cooperation--the only book to feature interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 AZEBurgan, Michael
Summary: "Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he'd become a brilliant teacher who shared his knowledge of several subjects, including arithmetic, history, and poetry, with his students. Confucius wanted to make sure that everyone in China had access to an education and devoted his whole life to learning and teaching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who ConfuciusBurgan, Michael
Summary: Presents the life of the business mogul who turned a small food packagaing company into a booming business known for its fair treatment of workers and pioneering safe food preparation standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEICannell, Michael
Summary: "The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a legendary moment in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careersand lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020