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Summary: "A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWD, MICHELLE DOWMichell, Tom.
Summary: "Whether as rugby team mascot or assistant swimming coach, the penguin known as Juan Salvador touches and transforms everyone he encounters, including Tom Michell, the young teacher who finds him and rescues him from an oil spill disaster. After a time, Juan Salvador (meaning "the saved one") receives a new name: Juan Salvado, or "the savior." Set against the turbulent world of political unrest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MICHELL MICGraft, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crofton Creek Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 GraftBrant, John
Summary: Julius Achon is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Uganda. He was captured at 12 and turned into a boy soldier; then miraculously found a career as one of the world's foremost middle-distance runners. How these life jumps happened is told here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHON, JULIUS BRAMachell, Ben
Summary: "The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood: a British college student who started robbing banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis. When the global financial crisis of 2007 hit, British college student Stephen Jackley decided to become abank robber, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Against all likelihood, his plan actually worked. Jackley used disguises, elaborate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKLEY, STEPHEN MACGrann, David
Summary: "This essential book introduces young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6004 GRAGranata, Vince
Summary: "Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANATA, VINCE GRAKrans, Kim
Summary: "Visionary artist and New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and infertility in the throes of a health and wellness-obsessed culture, touching on the healing potentials of creativity and spirituality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem KransKropp, Göran.
Summary: A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KROGrann, David.
Summary: After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARAGlatt, John
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the disturbed young man accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder. By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. Theson of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GLAForbes, Grania.
Summary: On 4 August 1999, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday! The Queen Mother's life thus tells in its own distinctive way the story of the twentieth century, and as the years pass, she is increasingly venerated as 'a beloved national institution.' Forbes, a British journalist specializing in the royal family, offers a pictorial biography that, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 ELIGlatt, John
Summary: "In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the true story of a Colorado family whose storybook life turned into a nightmare. In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick,Colorado home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GLAGrande, Peggy
Summary: "In The President Will See You Now, devoted Reagan insider Peggy Grande shares behind-the-scenes stories, intimate moments, and insights into one of America's most beloved presidents. Grande, who started in the Office of Ronald Reagan as a college student and earned her way into a coveted role as the president's Executive Assistant, offers an unparalleled perspective on the post-presidency of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, PEGGY GRAOkrant, Robyn.
Summary: What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions and guidance delivered via her television show, her Web site, and her magazine. This is a month-by-month account of that year. Some of the challenges included...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 OKRGaunt, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROGorani, 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: "A memoir of coming of age and cooking, with recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GRAGrass, Günter
Summary: Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRASS, GUNTER GRAGrant, Neil
Summary: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the location, history, nomenclature, renowned members, tartans, and modern-day status of over 140 Scottish clans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 929.2 GrantGrant, Rebecca
Summary: Follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and giving birth in modern America, recounting the ups and downs, fears, joys and everyday moments of each woman's pregnancy and postpartum journey and discussing the rising popularity of midwifery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 GRAMitchell, Joni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITCHELL, JONI MITMitchell, Paige.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1976