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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KLEAugust, Oliver
Summary: In an effort to understand and assess the forces and factors transforming modern China, a journalist joins the search for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon and self-made billionaire on the run from corruption charges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05092 AUGStevenson, Augusta.
Summary: Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOOMarchetto, Marisa Acocella.
Summary: Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her 11-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer--from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. This graphic memoir is a portrait of one woman's supercharged life in Manhattan and a wonderful love story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARSimon, Eddy
Summary: "This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is done with the collaboration of the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views his life through the eyes of the three women who shared his life for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on and off companion, the other two his muses, one of which was Camille Claudel, a well-recognized sculptor herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SIMBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Presents a humorous account of the author's deranged adolescence that explores the concept of cause and effect. It is a cautionary tale in essay form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 BURNelson, Marilyn
Summary: "A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SAVBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: A collection of personal tales features the author's wry observations about such topics as eBay addiction, gay personal ads, and Santa Claus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.6 BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Draws on the author's roller-coaster experiences with limited opportunities, successes, and failures, to offer darkly humorous advice on surviving everything from riding elevators and gaining weight to finishing drinks and finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 BurroBurroughs, Augusten
Summary: "From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky. 'Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURROUGHS, AUGUSTEN BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BURROUGHS BURBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813 BURMcDaniel, Breanna J.
Summary: "A luminous picture book biography about librarian and storyteller Augusta Baker, the first Black coordinator of children's services at all branches of the New York Public library"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAKLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
Summary: Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 LINLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINO'Neill, Alexis
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who used his skills as a reporter and photographer to call attention to the poor living conditions in the slums of New York City in the late nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIIRuxton, George Frederick Augustus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 RUXMann, Elizabeth
Summary: The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.71 MANLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 LINBorden, Louise.
Summary: Describes the popular children's authors' childhoods and early life together, their travels and marriage in Brazil, and their dramatic escape from World War II-torn Europe on bicycles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB REY BORGroom, Winston
Summary: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle were heroes of the aviation age. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond. Doolittle, a brilliant aviation innovator, led the Tokyo Raid to retaliate for Pearl Harbor; Lindbergh, hero of the first solo flight across the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.13 Groom 2013Groom, Winston
Summary: Groom has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013