Rasmussen, Crystal

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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Charrière, Henri

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 CHA

Rasmussen, 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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 RAS

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Geary, Rick.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2008

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Heaney, Katie

Summary: "When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl. Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing at the age of twenty-eight that she is gay. In these poignant, funny essays, she wrestles with her shifting sexuality...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Healy, Thomas

Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021

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Geary, Rick

Summary: "An authentic narrative of the final days in Billy the Kid's brief and turbulent life." --Back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 GEA

Lévy, Bernard Henri.

Contents: Le voyage en Amérique -- First visions -- Moving west -- The Pacific wall -- Desert vertigo -- Gone with the South -- Eye of the hurricane -- The beautiful and the damned -- Reflections -- What does it mean to be an American? -- American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs) -- Has America gone mad? -- Postscript.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEV

Parker, Marjorie Blain.

Summary: Presents the life and work of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century French artist, imagining his art-inspired childhood and growth into becoming one of the most admired artists in the world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books For Young Readers 2012

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Hort, Lenny.

Summary: Introductory biography of the first president of the United States. George Washington is often called the father of our country. He beat the odds to lead the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, served as first president of the United States, and then retired from public life to farm Virginia's largest plantation. In this groundbreaking new series, DK brings together fresh...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2005

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Harry

Summary: "It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Dery, Mark

Summary: From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2018

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Harry

Summary: Before losing his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. Because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. From the beginning, his romance with Meghan was preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Here Prince Harry tells...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

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McLain, Denny.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sporting News Pub. Co. 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 MCL

Merry, Robert W.

Summary: Merry examines how, in a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny by expanding its territory across the continent. b&w photographs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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Souter, Gerry.

Summary: Documents the life and career of the sixth president of the United States.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World, Inc. 2002

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Henley, Ariel

Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HEN

Kravitz, Lenny

Summary: The popular rock musician reflects on his life, from his struggles at school and tensions at home to his three-decade career as a songwriter, producer, and performer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

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Beston, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994

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Beston, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.744 BES

Friedman, Henry

Summary: "When the family was liberated by the Russians after eighteen months in hiding, Henry, at age fifteen, was emaciated and too weak to walk. The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria where Henry quickly learned to wheel and deal, seducing women of various ages and nationalities, and mastering the intricacies of the black market. In I'm No Hero, he faces with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRI