Mehra, Nishta
Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEHMishra, Pankaj.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 MISBerra, Yogi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BERHasan, Mehdi
Summary: "MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan isn't one to avoid arguments. He relishes them, as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value-and can also simply be fun. Arguments are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.53 HASBeals, Melba
Summary: A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEALS BEABerra, Yogi
Summary: A first-person account of Yogi Berra's life and tumultuous times in major league baseball. Includes interviews and anecdotes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BERKalman, Maira.
Summary: Filled with original art and photographs by the author who is also an illustrator and designer, each chapter represents a month of Kalman's yearlong travel across the U.S. and her reflections on democracy. She starts with a celebration of Barack Obama's Presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., continues with the month of February and Abraham Lincoln, and explores democracy and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 KALHarris, Aisha
Summary: "In nine lively essays, critc Aisha Harris invites us into the wonderful, maddening process of making sense of the pop culture we consume. Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, AISHA HARRedux, Aisha
Summary: "A first-generation American from New York City, Aisha Redux uses her bold voice and unique point of view in this provocative collection. Weaving together contemporary Black urban culture, traditional African religion, and modern tenets of Islam, she shares her life experiences, astute observations, and evolving belief system. Through the lens of race, culture, gender, sexuality and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 REDSaeed, Aisha
Summary: "A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUBerra, Yogi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BERLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: Henry's Farm, run by Henry Brockman, is in central Illinois and some of the richest farming land in the world. There, he and his family, five generations of farmers, including sister Terra, the author, have bucked the traditional agribusiness conventional wisdom by farming in a way that's sensible, sustainable, and focused on producing healthy, nutritious food in ways that doesn't despoil the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 BROKalman, Maira.
Summary: Wanting to know about the real man behind the sixteenth president's legendary character, a little girl learns about Lincoln's beliefs regarding universal freedom as well as lesser-known aspects of his life, from his love of Mozart and his wife's vanilla cake to his pet dog and the way he kept notes in his stovepipe hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINBeals, Melba
Summary: In I Will Not Fear, Beals takes you on an unforgettable journey through terror, oppression, and persecution, highlighting the kind of faith we all need to survive in a world full of hearbreak and anger. She shows how the deep faith we develop during our most difficult moments is the kind of faith that can change our famiilies, our communitites, and even the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2018
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Summary: An award-winning actor, in this harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, not only reveals her own mistakes, but also the lessons she learned and her efforts to understand and grow rather than casting blame, proving that there is always a light at the end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUVARI, MENA SUVLehmann, Devra
Summary: "Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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Summary: "An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.08 KHRGehr, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.66 GEHGeha, Joseph
Summary: "Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio's Little Syria neighborhood where I grew up, the first place you'd go to find your mother would be the kitchen. There, my mom took special pride in the traditional Syro-Lebanese food she cooked. Kitchen Arabic is a compilation both of her recipes and of the family stories that came with them. It is as much a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2023
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Summary: "Sheds light on the fascinating life and interests of the Renaissance man who was our third president"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014