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Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONHilnama
Summary: "At 38 years old, Hilnama, an erotic manga artist, is diagnosed with colon cancer. Never one to lose hope or give up, she begins treatment despite the terminal diagnosis. But when going through such a grueling process, it can be difficult to keep a positive outlook. When faced with the struggles and trials of life, Hilnama turns to what she knows: writing and creating manga! This poignant and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILNAMA HILConradi, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 HANConradi, Peter.
Summary: Between June 9th and 12th 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York, during what was the first ever visit by a reigning British monarch to the United States. Coming at a time when Britain desperately needed U.S. help in the conflict that now seemed inevitable, the meeting was front page news on both sides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 CONFelt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELRall, Ted.
Summary: As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RALHull, Anne
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. "Look now," her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. "It will all be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HULL HULMcTernan, Cinead
Summary: Discusses the chefs and gardeners from twenty United Kingdom eateries and includes recipes for some of their signature dishes and gardening tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks Intl 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 MCTConrad, Vicki
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLEAnker, Conrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 ANKConrad, Vicki
Summary: "The Florida Everglades are made up of nine different ecosystems supporting an astonishing variety of wildlife-panthers, manatees, snails, frogs, and a rainbow of bird species. But for years, the Everglades were threatened. They needed a voice to speak up for them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas became that voice. Her book "A River of Grass" helped the world see the irreplaceable beauty and value of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUConrad, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 CONConrad, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONRAD, PETE CONConroy, Pat
Summary: Chronicles the author's efforts to reconcile with his harsh fighter pilot father, who inspired "The Great Santini," recounting how at the end of his father's life, he defended the author from his critics while helping to heal family estrangements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONROY, PAT CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SANTINI CONCoram, Robert
Summary: "Recounts the storied life and military career of the American flying Ace who flew missions in China alongside the “Flying Tigers” during World War II and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT, ROBERT LEE JR CORGorani, Hala
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Summary: After years of loving the vibrant city life in San Francisco, Lonnie Hull DuPont reluctantly trades her three-room apartment on foggy, lively Telegraph Hill for a farmhouse on a quiet plain in Michigan. She immediately misses the rhythm and the pace of the city, and the isolation country living brings has her longing for something more. Enter Kit Kat and Lucy--stray cats who arrive at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal Pet DuPontWall, Elissa.
Summary: Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.67 CONHall, Ron
Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, RON HALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem HallHall, Sam
Summary: On cover: The first person account of the former businessman and olympic athlete who became "a soldier of democracy," commanding world attention with his arrest as a spy in Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.35 HALHall, Sara
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.14 HALFarrer-Halls, Gill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theosophical Pub. House 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 294.3923 FARHall, Donald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1993