Copaken, Deborah
Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPAKEN, DEBORAH COPGoodman, Simon
Summary: The passionate, true story of one man's quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family--their beloved art collection--and to restore their legacy. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. And that's almost all he knew--his father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 GOOHarjo, Joy
Summary: Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, grounded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARJO, JOY HARHewitt, Seán
Summary: "When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEWITT, SEAN HEWLewis, Matt
Summary: "On June 6, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Matt Lewis had just started his dream job as a scientific observer aboard a deep-sea fishing boat in the waters off Antarctica. As the crew haul in the line for the day, a storm begins to brew. When the captain vanishes and they are forced to abandon ship, Lewis leads the escape onto three life rafts, where the battle for survival begins"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LEWTizon, Alex.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TIZON, ALEX TIZLawless, Wendy.
Summary: "Wendy Lawless' stunning memoir of resilience in the face of an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAWLESS, WENDY LAWReid, Eliza
Summary: "Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 REIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: "Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon. When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done--a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KEISteinem, Gloria.
Summary: "Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEINEM, GLORIA STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B STEINEM STEBrennan, Chrisann.
Summary: "An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child and a complement to Walter Isaacson's biography, providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years. Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOBS, STEVE BREShields, Aomawa
Summary: "A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth. As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. One year into an astrophysics PhD program, she was plagued by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHIELDS, AOMAWA SHIStowe, Hannah
Summary: "As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOWE, HANNAH STOStahl, Lesley
Summary: "From one of the country's most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman's life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl's most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 STAKassinger, Ruth
Summary: "A witty and engaging history of the first botanists, interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the labIn Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounts with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing the lessons that she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating personal crisis. In A Garden of Marvels, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 KASWarner, Priscilla
Summary: "A funny memoir of Faith Club coauthor's serious attempt to change her brain from panic to peace in a year-long spiritual quest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARNER, PRISCILLA WARKozol, Jonathan
Summary: "National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 KOZPendleton, Madeline
Summary: "A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from TikTok superstar Madeline Pendleton about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Imagine a job where you work four days a week and earn as much as the CEO. You also get full benefits, a gym membership, free lunch, and unlimited time off, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FaustMartin, Wednesday.
Summary: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, WEDNESDAY MARButler, Blake.
Summary: "In his first full-length work of non-fiction, the daring novelist and critic Blake Butler details his epic struggle with insomnia, and its unexpected consequences on his imagination, his creative process, and his perspective on reality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.84 BUTPadgett, Jason.
Summary: "No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADGETT, JASON PADElliott, 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 ELLGreig, Geordie
Summary: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013