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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 869.342 COECoelho, Paulo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 COECastaneda, Jorge G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEForget, Thomas.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Captain America, including information on his creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 ForgeShafrir, Doree
Summary: "An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected, from the co-host of the hit podcast Forever35. Doree Shafrir was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed; at both sites, she authored countless viral articles. Just before she turned forty, she published her first novel, and one year later, she quit her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAFRIR, DOREE SHAHorie, Yoshitaka.
Contents: The toughest battle in world history -- Isolated island : where no planes or vessels could go -- Saipan was said to be impregnable -- Iwo Jima is next! -- Iwo Jima : an island of pineapples and jungle -- The Ogasawara Islands force and the U.S. Pacific fleet -- Let's sink Iwo Jima into the ocean -- Supply operations at night via Chichi Jima -- Defensive operations from the caves -- Send more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HORIE, YOSHITAKA HORDenver, Rorke.
Summary: Explaining the unique psychology behind the SEALs' legendary training program, a high-level SEAL officer reveals the modern techniques that transform a chosen few into lethal warriors and details how the SEALs' creative operations became front-and-center in America's War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.984 DENLorde, Audre
Summary: "First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LORDE, AUDRE LORRubenstein, Lorne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 RUBNeffe, Jürgen
Summary: The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EINSTEIN, ALBERT NEFTorre, Joe
Summary: Written as a third-person narrative with "Sports Illustrated" senior baseball writer Verducci, "The Yankee Years" is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees' organization from the most successful--and most respected--baseball manager of the modern era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 796.45 TORBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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Contents: Childhood and upbringing -- Becoming a notable -- Volunteer-in-chief -- Making a messiah -- Trials -- Prisoner 466/64 -- Leading from prison -- Messianic politics and the transition to democracy -- Embodying the nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON LODJudge, Lita
Summary: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 JUDParachini, Jodie
Summary: "A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BURLarge, David Clay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LARYorke, Ritchie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underwood-Miller 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 YORHoge, Robert
Summary: "Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIKING, Published by Penguin Group 2016
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Summary: A mixed-format picture book biography of STEM pioneer Marie Tharp describes the conventions of the early 20th century that challenged her pursuit of an Earth Sciences degree and her histort-shaping first scientific charting of the Atlantic Ocean floor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THARobertson, Kay
Summary: Outlines the roles of Duck Dynasty women, discussing the core values that make their relationships work and explaining how their spiritual beliefs shape family dynamics and have helped them work through various challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: The story of the U.S. women's soccer team and their rise from a virtually unnoticed group of young women athletes to the champions of the 1999 Women's World Cup includes profiles of top players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 LONShepherd, Jodie
Summary: A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEMShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: "An elegant, unforgiving poem narrating Ona Judge's self-emancipation from George Washington's household"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021