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Summary: "A cocktail-spitting, norm-pinching dive into twenty-first-century queer life, exploring bodies, identity, shame, and the glory of loving yourself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RASMUSSEN, CRYSTAL RASAndrews, Bryce.
Summary: A narrative of a year on a southwest Montana ranch describes the author's time building fences, riding, roping, and caring for cattle while confronting a brutal pack of wolves in ways that challenged his views about conservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDREWS, BRYCE ANDRasmussen, Randall L.
Summary: It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell's Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions, the Belle was shot down and the captured American flyers were sent to the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17B. In Stalag the American prisoners of war had to deal with the harsh rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunstone Press 2003
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 940.5472 RASBrace, Ernest C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 BRABroady, Brunde
Summary: Did you know that one single enzyme impacts your odds of contracting most deadly diseases and health conditions? An enormous body of reputable research into this enzyme has been isolated, ignored, and misunderstood by medical experts. The importance of this enzyme simply cannot be overstated. The Calcium Connection: The Little-Known Enzyme at the Root of Your Cellular Health delivers a clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med BroadyBreece, Hannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 BRECrute, Josh
Summary: Sometimes in London it drizzles. Sometimes it mizzles. Other times it pelts and showers and spits. And Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. How can he go about his day as a proper London gentleman when his shoes are soggy, his coat is always collecting puddles, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Fed up with damp and dreary London, Jonas sails far away, to places where the sun always shines. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HANHoffman, Bryce G.
Summary: An account of the near-collapse of Ford in 2008 outlines the efforts of CEO Alan Mulally to save the company, describing Ford's subsequent transformation into the world's most profitable automobile business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 HOFBruni, Frank
Summary: "From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRUBrunt, Douglas
Summary: September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: Offers insight into the man behind his denim-clad, mustached persona, covering such topics as the inspirations for his most famous songs, the exhaustion that overshadowed his success, and the 1973 plane crash that ended his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROCE, JIM CROAdkins, Trace.
Summary: Country music star Adkins isn't known for holding back what's on his mind. And if his album sales are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Here, he delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things ought to be.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2007
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Summary: "In this essayistic autobiography, Jan Grue reflects on social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRUE, JAN GRUArce, Julissa
Summary: "Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 ARCBarcott, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9778 BARBruce, Evangeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRUCatton, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 CATChatwin, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.4 CHAChilton, Bruce.
Summary: Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms-witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and perhaps even the wife) of Jesus. In this new biography, biblical scholar Chilton offers an authoritative portrait of this fascinating woman. Through interpretations of ancient texts, he shows that Mary played...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARY MAGDALENE CHIGoldfarb, Bruce
Summary: "Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended death in the state is scrutinized. Touching on numerous scandals, including Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing in police custody of Freddie Gray, Goldfarb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDFARB, BRUCE GOLHenderson, Bruce
Summary: One of the last, great untold stories of World War II--kept hidden for decades--even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives--a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers--the saga of the Japanese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53089 HENWeigl, Bruce
Summary: The author explores the impact of the Vietnam War on his life, discussing how his experiences led him eventually to seek solace in poetry; and tells how he was finally delivered from the ghosts of the war when he traveled back to Hanoi to adopt a Vietnamese child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WEIGreyson, Bruce
Summary: "The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness. Cases of remarkable experiences on the threshold of death have been reported since ancient times, and are described today by 10% of people whose hearts stop. The medical world has generally ignored these "near-death experiences," dismissing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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Summary: "Microsoft's associate general counsel shares the inspirational story of his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra Nooyi's My Life in Full and Viola Davis's Finding Me"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023