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Addicts Rehabilitation Drug addicts California Biography Juvenile literature Drug addicts Rehabilitation California Juvenile literature Forced marriage United States Methamphetamine abuse California Biography Juvenile literature Polygamy United States Substance abuse Patients Counseling of Substance abuse Patients Rehabilitation Substance abuse Psychological aspects Substance abuse TreatmentRawitt, Jean
Summary: "While many teens, college students, and young professionals are passionate about social issues--whether climate change or gun violence, hunger or homelessness, or any other of the countless difficulties which face our world today--and want to help, enthusiasm alone is not enough to make a meaningful impact. But effective advocacy and activism can be learned, and with the right tools, achieving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.8 RAWHewett, Jen
Summary: "Be inspired by the work and stories of innovative women of color who are making exceptional contributions to the world of craft. The diverse range of textile artists featured include knitters, quilters, sewers, weavers, and more who are making inspiring and exciting work, yet who are often overlooked by mainstream media. Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and profiles, this book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HEWHewitt, Catherine
Summary: "Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LA BIGNE, VALTESSE de, HEWJeffs, Rachel
Summary: "In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JEFFS, RACHEL JEFHewitt, Seán
Summary: "When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEWITT, SEAN HEWJeffs, Rachel
Summary: The daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church describes the abusive patriarchal culture in which she was raised by sister wives and dominating men and discusses how her father remains a powerful influence on his followers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFS, RACHEL JEFNeff, James
Summary: In a book based on newly released documents, the author sheds a new light on the historic battle between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa during the Senate Rackets Committee hearings and beyond during 1957 to 1964.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.921 NEFHewitt, Catherine
Summary: A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 VALADON, SUZANNE HEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VALADON HEWJowitt, Deborah
Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOWRieff, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 RIEHaff, Stephen
Summary: Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.92 HAFJett, Philip
Summary: In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them. What they'd soon realize was that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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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 NEFAndersen, Jens
Summary: "The extraordinary inside story of the LEGO company--producer of the most beloved and popular toy on the planet--based on unprecedented access to the founding family that still owns the company, chronicling the brand's improbable journey to become the empire that it is today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 ANDSheff, David
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who became one of America's most respected Buddhist practitioners during his two decades in solitary confinement in San Quentin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASTERS, JARVIS JAY SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MASTERS SHESheff, Nic.
Summary: The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHELongman, Jere.
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 LONMusser, Rebecca
Summary: A gripping account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSSER MUSSelf, Will
Summary: "Will Self is one of Britain's best-known contemporary writers, a public intellectual whose novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. In Will, his first ever memoir, he turns his attention fully to his own self, and in particular his addictions as a young man. An addiction memoir like no other, Will echoes the best of Self's psychedelic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SELF, WILL SELVoigt, Jens
Summary: Beloved German cyclist Jens Voigt isn’t a superstar in the traditional sense of the word. Although he won three stages of the Tour De France—and wore the yellow jersey twice—Voigt never claimed an overall victory. He became a star because he embodies qualities that go beyond winning and losing: sacrifice, selflessness, reliability, and devotion. European and American crowds were drawn to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOIGT, JENS VOIReif, Fred
Summary: "Sometimes, the seemingly most insignificant gestures can lead to life enhancing events ... That's what happened over 50 years ago when I met Fred Reif. We were five young strangers who came together to form a 'Jug Band' for a few laughs at some parties ... or, hopefully, get a gig at the new and growing 'Coffee House; venues where Folk Music was usually featured. We presented Fred with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fred Reif 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 REIMcKagan, Duff.
Summary: A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his phoenix-like transformation via a unique path to sobriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCKAGAN, DUFF MCKJaffe, Adi
Summary: "Breaking free of outdated explanations and rigid "rules" for recovery, The Abstinence Myth offers a hopeful, research-based framework for transformation by an addiction expert and renowned TEDx speaker who overcame his own addiction and has guided hundreds of clients into lives of joy and purpose"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: IGNTD Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 JAFJaffe, Eric.
Summary: "From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014