Spelling, Candy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPELLING, CANDY SPEEtler, 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 ETLEtler, 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 ETLLeitner, Tamara
Summary: "In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims--more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 LEITeichner, Martha
Summary: "A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner. There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 TEICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TEICHNER TEIWilliams, Cindy
Summary: The star of Laverne & Shirley tells stories of her struggles as a child growing up with meager means and dreaming of becoming an actress. She also shares many misadventures and amusing anecdotes about some of the most famous actors in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Pub. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, CINDY WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLIAMS WILCarson, Candy
Summary: "Like most Americans, you might think of Ben Carson as a trailblazing brain surgeon and, in the last few years, as an outspoken commentator on national issues. But his wife of more than forty years knows him as so much more: a loving husband, a devoted father, a devout Christian, a committed philanthropist, and a fierce patriot. Now Candy Carson introduces us to the private side of a very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CARDahl, Candy
Summary: Tiny Broadwick, a teeny, uneducated mill girl, had big dreams of soaring above the earth, out of poverty, and above expectations. She became the first woman to parachute from an airplane, and her idea for the rip cord paved the way for pilots to safely escape in-flight emergencies. This thrilling biography shows how Tiny's determination, courage, adventurousness, and joy lifted her up to stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BROMoulton, Candy
Summary: A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOSEPH, Chief MoultonReiner, Jon.
Summary: "Based on his Esquire magazine article, The man who couldn't eat is the very personal journey of Jon Reiner's struggle with chronic illness"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 REIHouse, Cindy
Summary: Told in essays and graphic-narrative shorts, this memoir illustrates the author's struggles with addiction and motherhood and her ongoing efforts to reconcile the two, capturing the desire to look hopefully forward, while acknowledging the darkness of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSE, CINDY HOUElkins-Tanton, Lindy T.
Summary: A memoir from a world-renowned planetary scientist explores her remarkable life story, the struggles she faced as a woman in the field, and her work as the leader of NASA's Psyche mission to explore the largest known metal-rich asteroid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarpersCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELKINS-TANTON, LINDY ELKIndyk, Martin
Summary: "A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arabneighbors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 INDPham, Thien
Summary: "Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 PHAEisner, Mark
Summary: "The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERUDA, PABLO EISRoss, Cindy
Summary: "Cindy Ross, founder of River House PA, an organization that helps veterans get out into nature to hike, paddle, and mountain bike, profiles sixteen individual veterans in depth, telling their personal stories and experiences. The broader story of the trauma veterans endure and how nature can help them to recover is interwoven throughout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4086 ROSReiner, Carl
Summary: The award-winning actor and director recalls the major events in his life through a series of short stories, including "Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka" and "Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 REIStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STAEisner, Peter
Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISThies, Jochen
Summary: What did Hitler really wanted to achieve: world domination. In the early twenties, Hitler was working on this plan and from 1933 on, was working to make it a reality. During 1940 and 1941, he believed he was close to winning the war. This book not only examines Nazi imperial architecture, armament and plans to regain colonies but also reveals what Hitler said in moments of truth. The author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berghahn Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 THIFriedman, Kinky.
Summary: A tour of the city of Austin, Texas, offers an offbeat guide with facts, descriptions, profiles, personal reminiscences, and unusual advice to guide tourists through the "coolest city in Texas."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.6431 FRIStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STALundy, Derek
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 LUNMundy, Liza
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023