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Conduct of life Conduct of life Juvenile literature Medicine Religious aspects Palliative treatment Physician and patient Picture books for children Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile literature South Asian Americans Ethnic identity United States Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard) 1888-1965Ofri, Danielle.
Summary: Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country-and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of this 250-year-old institution as a tentative medical student, she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.9 OFRFarthing, Pen.
Summary: Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 FARSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENSmith, Bren
Summary: "Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!). Here he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, BREN SMIAlexander, Eben.
Summary: Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 133.90 ALECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.901 ALESen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENBin Laden, Najwa.
Summary: Mother and son give us an extraordinary view of the private life of a man both loved feared by his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 BIN LADEN FAMILY BINSen, Sharmila
Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, SHARMILA SENWen, Leana S.
Summary: "Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of Time's 100 Most InfluentialPeople"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1 WENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEN, LEANA S. WENKi-moon, Ban
Summary: "Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. At six years old he fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive-until the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KI-MOON, BAN KI-MBean, Kendra
Summary: A celebration of the life and achievements of the iconic Hollywood star offers authoritative discussions of such topics as the creation and maintenance of her glamorous image, her marriages, and her celebrity friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARDNER, AVA BEAMah, Adeline Yen
Summary: The true story of a young Chinese girl who grew up feeling unloved by her father who remarried shortly after her mother's death and treated his new family and subsequent children as upper class compared to his first children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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Steil, Benn
Summary: "From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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Summary: Explores the family life of the Founding Fathers, providing intimate portraits of the households of such revolutionaries as George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 GLOOkun, Alanna
Summary: People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn't just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OKUThanedar, Shri
Summary: "Shri Thanedar, an immigrant who grew up in a lower middle class family in a rural area of India, and who eventually overcame a myriad hurdles on his way to becoming a successful entrepreneur and business owner in the USA. More than a rags-to-riches story, this autobiographical narrative relates the journey of an ordinary man with an extraordinary will. Originally published in India in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shri Thanedar 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THANEDAR, SHRI THANeri, Greg
Summary: Gail Ruffu was a rookie trainer known for her unconventional methods and ability to handle dangerous horses. When she became part owner of an untamed thoroughbred named Urgent Envoy, everything changed. After Urgent Envoy showed real promise, her co-owners forced Gail to speed up training and race him too early, causing the horse to develop a hairline fracture. Refusing to drug the horse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TU Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 NERLari, 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: A portrait of the legendary country music star is told through lyrical free verse that conveys information about his impoverished childhood and the extraordinary talent that enabled his career and rise to success on the world stage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CASNeri, Greg
Summary: Long before they became one of the most beloved and successful duos of all time, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were just two kids growing up in Queens, New York -- best friends who met in a sixth-grade production of Alice in Wonderland and bonded over girls, baseball, and rock'n'roll
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NERBean, Billy
Summary: From the only openly gay former major-league baseball player comes a chronicle of America's national pastime, and an intimate memoir of a man who learned to follow his own path. A relentless work ethic, exceptional multi-sport talent, and a quick left-handed swing got Bean into the big leagues--playing in the majors from 1987 to 1995 for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BEATen Boom, Corrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 1974
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Summary: "A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017