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Ziyad, Hari

Summary: "An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛiṣhṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZIYAD, HARI ZIY

McNeur, Catherine

Summary: "The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCN

Lubet, Steven.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARP, WYATT LUB

Ostrovsky, Erika.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.487 ZELLE, MARGARETHA OST

Mar, Alex

Summary: "A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MAR

Bahari, Maziar.

Summary: A former prisoner in one of Iran's most notorious prisons offers a moving memoir of how thoughts of his family got him through the days of torture, in a book that also sheds light on Iran's history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAHARI, MAZIAR BAH

Berkowitz, Aaron

Summary: "In the tradition of Tracy Kidder's portrait of Paul Farmer's work in MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, the story of a young neurologist's struggles over who and how to help patients in Haiti"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERKOWITZ, AARON BER

Kirk, Jay.

Summary: An account of the life of the famed explorer and taxidermist assesses his influence on American views about natural-world conservation, covering his dangerous pursuits of wildlife for his dioramas.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 KIR

Ozment, Steven E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.471 OZM

Kiernan, Denise

Summary: "All across the world, among hundreds of cultures, over centuries, people have come together to give thanks. But in America, we didn't have an official Thanksgiving holiday until the 1800s. The holiday Americans know today exists because of a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale, a spirited letter-writing campaign, a sympathetic president, and a civil war."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.2649 KIE

Guglielmo, Amy

Summary: "Salvador Dali struggles to follow the rules and fit in with his peers, until one day he realizes that artists can be and do anything they like. This realization gives him the freedom to truly be himself"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAL

Tentler-Krylov, Victoria

Summary: "The city of Baghdad was full of thinkers, artists, and scientists, the littlest among them Zaha Hadid. Zaha knew from a young age that she wanted to be an architect. She set goals for herself and followed them against all odds. A woman in a man's world, and a person of color in a white field, Zaha was met with resistance at every turn. When critics called her a diva and claimed her ideas were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books/Scholastic, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAD

Haart, Julia

Summary: "A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of JuliaHaart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAART, JULIA HAA

Winter, Jeanette

Summary: A biography of architect Zaha Hadid, who grew up in Baghdad and went on to design buildings all over the world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAD

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Winter 2017

Boessenecker, John

Summary: On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist spread, and Pearl Hart went on to become a media sensation and the most notorious female outlaw on the Western frontier. Her early life, family and fate after her later release from prison have long remained a mystery...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HART, PEARL BOE

Hart, Mickey.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1990

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Boessenecker, John

Summary: "Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys has never been told in full. The Cowboys were the largest outlaw gang in the history of the American West. After battles with the law in Texas and New Mexico, they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BOE

MacLean, Harry N.

Summary: "On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MAC

Phelps, M. William.

Summary: "Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' But who was the real Nathan Hale? In this well-researched biography, M. Williams Phelps separates historical fact from long-standing myth to reveal the life of Nathan Hale, a young man who deserves to be remembered as an original American patriot."--Book...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALE, NATHAN PHE

Kizzia, Tom.

Summary: Kizzia captures an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.805 HALE, ROBERT KIZ

Hazareesingh, Sudhir

Summary: "A biography of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE HAZ

Hale, Nathan

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Summary: Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history's roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HAL

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC HAL Graphic Novel

Winter, Jonah

Summary: "Discover the true story of a man who lived alone in the mountains with a hobby of measuring snowfall that led to groundbreaking data tracking in climate change studies"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BARR WIN

Peterson, Jon

Summary: "A detailed history about the early years and drama of TSR, Inc., the company that founded Dungeons and Dragons"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.93 PET

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