Avery, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 AVEMowry, Tia.
Summary: "Oh, Baby! tells moms-to-be what pregnancy really entails, in a funny, matter-of-fact, tell-it-like-it-is voice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 MOWReich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOREY, EDWARD DERDery, Dominika.
Summary: Dominika Dery chronicles her family's struggle to survive in the years following the failed Prague Spring uprising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8635 DERPaulsen, Gary
Summary: "The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2015Him, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMNotaro, Tig
Summary: In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Days after her diagnosis, Tig took her grief onstage, opening an unvarnished set with, "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer." The set went viral instantly and was later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.914 TIMHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: "From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life in this heartwarming memoir featuring some of her best-loved dogs. With inimitable honesty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TORRES, TIA TORReed, Avery
Summary: Details the life and times of the nineteenth-century German brothers who penned many famous fairy tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REESjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim
Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJOAvery, Burniece
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balamp Pub. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 AVEEvers, Medgar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Civitas 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EVERS, MEDGAR EVEFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGGeary, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25092 HELLongman, Jere.
Summary: The story of the U.S. women's soccer team and their rise from a virtually unnoticed group of young women athletes to the champions of the 1999 Women's World Cup includes profiles of top players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 LONHerr, Melody.
Summary: "Describes the exploration of North America in the times of explorers Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Sieur de La Salle. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from Columbus' voyage in 1492, Coronado's 1540 expedition, and Sieur de La Salle's expedition down the Mississippi River in 1682"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUMckesson, DeRay
Summary: "We have never been the voiceless, proclaims activist DeRay Mckesson, we have been the unheard. And the message that must now be heard is that inequality is neither hardwired nor inevitable. We have a system that was designed to favor some at the expense of others, and because it was designed, it can be redesigned. Indeed, we can live in a society of equity, justice, and joy. In August 2014,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 MCKGonsalves, Marc.
Summary: In "Out of Captivity," Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC--a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.106 GONYang, Kelly
Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANAdler, Tim.
Summary: "More than seventy years ago, after a performance of 'Hamlet' at the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier stepped out from behind the curtain to announce, 'Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a great actress has been born; Laertes has a daughter.' Her parents had already named her Vanessa. Between them, Michael Redgrave's children and grandchildren would go on to win four Golden Globes, a Tony Award and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aurum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ADLConway, Tim.
Summary: Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013