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Peete, Holly Robinson

Summary: Teenagers Ryan Elizabeth Peete and RJ Peete discuss what it is like for RJ as a teenager with autism and Ryan as a teenager with an autistic sibling.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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Van Lente, Fred

Summary: "We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Rad all about the radical rail-spliter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Van Lente, Fred

Summary: A graphic biography of America's first president blends true facts with humorous illustrations to bring American history to life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VAN

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3 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAS

Van Lente, Fred

Summary: We all know that John F. Kennedy was a World War II hero and a pro at giving speeches. But did you also know he survived shark-infested waters, tried to steal a dictator's beard, and once used a coconut to send a secret message? Read all about the king of Camelot, beloved Bostonian, and awesome orator John F. Kennedy in the fourth Action Presidents book, where the history is real and the jokes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Van Lente, Fred

Summary: We all know that Theodore Roosevelt protected the environment and was the cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt. But did you also know that he was the inspiration for the Teddy bear, wrote adventure books, and once gave a speech with a gunshot wound in his chest? Read all about the committed conservationist, resolute Rough Rider, and willful warrior Theodore Roosevelt in the third Action...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Fynn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FYN

Bryant, Jennifer.

Summary: Examines the life of Peter Mark Roget and his invention of the thesaurus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROG

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRY

Teege, Jennifer

Summary: "The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted [by Ralph Fiennes] in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEEGE, JENNIFER TEE

Meese, Edwin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Gateway 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 MEE

Pelta, Kathy.

Summary: A biography of Christopher Columbus with emphasis on how historians have worked and are still working to find out the truth about his life and discoveries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner 1991

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB COL PEL

Pesta, Abigail

Summary: Chronicles the story of how serial sexual predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before a team of brave women banded together to stop him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 PES

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 PES

Pence, Charlotte

Summary: When Mike Pence set out on the vice presidential campaign trail, his daughter Charlotte knew the next 100 days would be exciting and challenging. But she also knew that her father-a dedicated public servant-would succeed because he'd cling to his faith, his love for America, and his family every step of the way. New York Times bestselling author Charlotte Pence pays tribute to her father,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Pence

Yan, Lianke

Summary: "In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and '70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, aswell as his own. Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YAN

Klarsfeld, Beate

Summary: "The memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, political activists best known for hunting Nazis"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018

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Pence, Mike

Summary: "Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the surface, the affable evangelical Christian from a gas-station-owning family in Indiana wouldn't seem to have much in common with a brash real estate mogul from New York. But the unlikely duo formed a tight bond. Pence was at Donald Trump's side when he enacted historic tax relief, when he decided to take more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PEN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENCE, MIKE PEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B PENCE PEN

Peace, Breton

Summary: Actual Malice is a true crime thriller that will take you through the back rooms of political gamesmanship, deception, and cover-up. In May of 2001, the moderate Blue Dog Democrats - of which Gary Condit was a founding member - held significant power in Congress. The sky was the limit. When Chandra Levy, an Bureau of Prisons intern, disappeared in 2001, the wheels came off Gary's ambitions....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ghost Mountain Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PEA

Keefe, Jess

Summary: "Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author's obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEEFE, JESS KEE

Reece, Gabrielle.

Summary: Autobiography of model and professional athlete Gabby Reece discussing her difficult childhood, use of sports and modeling as a path to self-discovery, and ideas about stereotypes of women athletes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.325 REE

Eyman, Scott

Summary: "A revelatory biography of the enduringly popular John Wayne that draws on more than 100 interviews as well as exclusive access to the files of Wayne's film production company to answer the question why he became and remains an iconic American figure"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain Wayne

Reese, Willy Peter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 REESE, Willy REE

Peet, Bill.

Summary: The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1989

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JN Caldecott Peet

Ravin, Idan.

Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAVIN, IDAN RAV

Virji, Ayaz

Summary: In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in horror as his children faced anti-Muslim remarks at school and some of his most loyal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIRJI, AYAZ VIR

Amidon, Ervan L. (Ervan Lloyd)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: E.L. Amidon 1986

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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: GEN 929.2 Ami

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