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Summary: Presents a collection of original celebrity portraits from Tyler Gordon, now 15, a partially deaf painting prodigy whose work has been lauded by popular media and art critics alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GORPosey, Parker
Summary: Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful handmade collages created by the author herself, You're On an Airplane is a delight in every way. In her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POSEY, PARKER POSPovey, Glenn.
Summary: Presents an account of the collective and individual careers of the members of Pink Floyd, dating from before the band's formation to the present day, that includes a comprehensive list of their stage, television, and radio performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42166 PINK FLOYD POVPoses, David
Summary: "In his groundbreaking memoir, The weight of air, David chronicles his struggle to overcome mental illness and addiction. By age nineteen, he'd been through medical detox, inpatient rehab, twelve-step programs, and a halfway house. He saw his drug use as a symptom of depression, but the experts insisted that addiction was the problem. Over the next thirteen years, he went from one relapse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R PosesTayler, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.7 TAYMoses
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSES, GRANDMA MOSToler, Pamela D.
Summary: "From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, Women Warrior reclaims lost stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor, debunking the pervasive claim that women do not, and should not, fight"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 TOLAsim, Jabari
Summary: Complemented by black-and-white photos, a young readers' adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by the late civil rights activist recounts her upbringing in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and her fight for equality and justice in America's military environments,churches and courtrooms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROUOhler, Norman
Summary: Harro Schulze-Boysen and Libertas Haas-Heye met in the summer of 1935, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascist fighters that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 OHLWoods, Tiger
Summary: "Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Tiger Woods' historic win at the 1997 Masters, an account of the pro golfer's historic career shares previously unknown stories and the ways his record-setting win changed both the sport and his life on and off the course,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODS, TIGERS WOOElnoury, Tamer
Summary: It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELNOURY, TAMER ELNEtler, Cyndy
Summary: The author describes her youth as a runaway at age fourteen and how she was sent to a corrupt recovery facility where she faced intimidation and unconventional treatment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETLItzler, Jesse
Summary: Entrepreneur and one-time rapper (under the name Jesse Jaymes) Jesse Itzler's life is bold and risky until he realizes he's ready for a major change. He decides to take up residence with the New Skete monks, a Russian Orthodox religious order in upstate New York. What he learns about the monks-- and himself-- is the focus of this memoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 255.81 ITZMoser, Benjamin
Summary: "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONTAG, SUSAN MOSProsek, James
Summary: Highlights the journey of a self-confessed fishing addict as he follows the paths of the great Izaak Walton, the original angler, fishing in Walton's favorite English fishing spots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1 PROProser, Jim
Summary: "When General James Mattis took command of the First Division in 2000, he took for their motto a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla: "No better friend, no worse enemy." In 2003, General James N. Mattis shared a "Message to All Hands," to his soldiers. He shared with them the importance of the mission, the goal to act with honor, and ended with the motto he brought to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATTIS, JAMES PROOmoth, Tyler.
Summary: "Introduces readers to the most dynamic pro basketball stars of today and yesterday, including notable statistics and records"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 OMOEtler, Cyndy
Summary: When the author is sent to Straight, Inc., a "tough love" program for troubled teens, she is psychologically beaten for months and forced to return to high school with a battered psyche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETLProsek, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1755 PROStyles, Rhyannon
Summary: Imagine feeling lost in your own body. Imagine spending years living a lie, denying what makes you 'you'. This was Ryan's reality. He had to choose: die as a man or live as a woman. In 2012, Ryan chose Rhyannon. At the age of thirty she began her transition, taking the first steps on the long road to her true self. Rhyannon holds nothing back in THE NEW GIRL, a heartbreakingly honest telling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STYLES, RHYANNON STYTyner, Artika R.
Summary: "When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 TYNPla, Josep
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLA, JOSEP PLARousey, Ronda
Summary: Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and new Hollywood action hero, charts her difficult path to glory. Rousey's account of the toughest fights of her life -- in and outside the Octagon -- reveals the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old, the intensity of her judo training, her battles with love, her meteoric rise to fame,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Arts 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROUSEY ROUHuler, Scott.
Contents: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004