Wels, Susan.
Summary: Profiles the life of Amelia Earhart, including her historic career as a pilot and the latest information on her disappearance while flying over the Pacific in 1937.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARHART, AMELIA WELWels, Susan
Summary: "It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 WEIX, Malcolm
Summary: Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells his life story to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 X, MALCOM XX, Malcolm
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MALLaNier, Carlotta Walls
Summary: A personal account of the nation's most famous school integration recounts the author's decision to attend Little Rock's all-white Central High and describes how subsequent events affected her family's beliefs about dedication, perseverance, and sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LANHampton, Kelle.
Summary: "The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the story of the first year of her daughter Nella--who has Down syndrome--and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMPTON, KELLE HAMWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE WILBelli, Gioconda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 BELHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULWellons, Jay
Summary: "Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLONS, JAY WELBello, Maria
Summary: The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery, and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation.Actress and activist Maria Bello made waves with her essay, Coming Out as a Modern Family, in the New York Times popular Modern Love column, in which she recalled telling her son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELLO, MARIA BELPelly, Jenn
Summary: The Raincoats were not the most famous band of late 70s London punk, nor were they the most critically acclaimed. But the peculiar charms of this pioneering feminist punk band helped bolster the iconic Rough Trade label at its radical beginnings. The brilliantly anti-commercial Raincoats is one of our earliest documents of D.I.Y. as an aesthetic-timeless spiritual music for Riot Grrrls, indie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 PELWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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Summary: In I Will Not Fear, Beals takes you on an unforgettable journey through terror, oppression, and persecution, highlighting the kind of faith we all need to survive in a world full of hearbreak and anger. She shows how the deep faith we develop during our most difficult moments is the kind of faith that can change our famiilies, our communitites, and even the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEALS, MELBA BEABella, Timothy
Summary: The definitive biography of Charles Barkley exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career, and his enduring legacy in American pop culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Summary: A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEALS BEALindwer, Willy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE LINNellis, Glenys
Summary: Collects fourteen Bible stories about women and girls accompanied by letters from God aimed specifically at the reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7 WILWills, Shomari
Summary: "The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILAdams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADADurrell, Gerald Malcolm
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DURMalcolm Belc, Krys
Summary: "Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALCOM BELC, KRYS MALWills, Charles.
Summary: Annie Oakley first picked up a gun at age eight and by age 22 was performing sharpshooting acts. She went on to travel the world and became America's first female superstar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2007