Maum, Courtney
Summary: "At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, this is not just a riding lesson, but a last-ditch attempt to pull herself back from the brink even though riding is a relic from the past she walked away from. She hasn't been on or near a horse in over thirty years. Although Courtney does know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAUM, COURTNEY MAUTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYWeir, Alison
Summary: A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LENNOX, MARGARET DOUGLAS WEIDuany, Ger
Summary: The amazing autobiography of a young Sudanese boy who went from a child soldier to an international peace activist, a struggling refugee to a Hollywood actor. Sudan, 1980s: Ger Duany knew what he wanted out of life--make his family proud, play with his brothers and sisters, maybe get an education like his brother Oder suggested, and become a soldier for his people when he's old enough. But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DUAGuglielmo, Amy
Summary: From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn't play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think in black and white, Mary painted twinkling emerald skies, peach giraffes with tangerine spots, and magenta horses that could fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLAMcCormick, Mack
Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT MCCWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIBartoletti, Susan Campbell
Summary: "What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MALMiller, Kenneth
Summary: Journalist Kenneth Miller weaves science with history to tell the story of four outsider academics who carried the study of sleep from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession. In the 1920s Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world's first dedicated sleep lab, with breakthrough experiments in 1938. Kleitman mentored Eugene Aserinsky who discovered REM sleep, and William Dement, who became known as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 MILCriswell, Shelby
Summary: "Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people. The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Featuring biographies of Mary Jones, We'wha, Magnus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 CRIWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIGuinn, Jeff
Summary: A portrait of the cult leader behind the Jonestown Massacre examines his personal life, from his extramarital affairs and drug use to his fraudulent faith healing practices and his decision to move his followers to Guyana, sharing new details about the events leading to the 1978 tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, JIM GUIFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXLystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWADaum, Meghan
Summary: "A book blending memoir, reporting, and argument, which drills past the obvious political opinions of our moment in an attempt to make sense of our social and political landscape, particularly with regards to feminism and the various layers of the Trump Resistance movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 DAUKanfer, Stefan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARX, GROUCHO KANMarx, Groucho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 MARJohnson, Mary
Summary: Traces the story of a former nun who devotedly worked alongside Mother Teresa in service to the world's poor, describing her teenage decision to enter a convent, the struggles she faced as an independent thinker, and her decision to leave the church after twenty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, MARY JOHTrethewey, Rachel
Summary: "As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TREWeir, Alison
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Lady Mary Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England, who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the Tudor succession after the death of Elizabeth I. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENNOX, MARGARET DOUGLAS WEISwanson, James L.
Summary: "James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of thetime, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 SWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 SWAPearson, Judith
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 PEAMcCarter, Jeremy
Summary: "What does it mean to live for your ideals ... and to risk dying for them? This book tells the story of young American radicals who sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life--politically, socially, culturally--and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war sweep it away. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCAbramovich, Alex
Summary: "The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities. Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of each other. Decades later, when they met...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016