Alsadir, Nuar
Summary: Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ALSBegley, Ed
Summary: The beloved American actor and environmental activist shares humorous and heartfelt stories throughout his life and illustrious career, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, addiction and recovery and his constant search for wisdom and common ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEGLEY, ED, JR. BEGBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: "Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.845 BRIKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A biography of one of America's greatest presidents, focusing on his use of wit and humor, and his love of language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7 KRUHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HICFitzgerald, Isaac
Summary: "Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FITZGERALD FITIngraham, Christopher
Summary: The hilarious, charming, and candid story of Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400--the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 INGRAHAM, CHRISTOPHER INGAbdelnour, Salma.
Summary: The author chronicles her return to Lebanon after leaving the war-torn country at the age of nine and living in the United States for thirty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.925 ABDELNOUR, SALMA ABDNotaro, Laurie.
Summary: The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 814.6 NOTBittner, Mark.
Contents: A rolling stone -- Mansion on the hill -- A joyful encounter -- A question of trust -- Mandela -- The science of it -- Dogen -- Everything changes -- Bucky -- Paco and company -- A walk on the wild side -- Rage against the light -- Tupelo -- Back out in the world -- Free as a bird -- Fleeting happiness -- Snyder -- Act naturally -- Consiousness explained -- A late fledge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.6865 BITRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLHeinerth, Jill
Summary: "From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet. More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today--and one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HEINERTH HEIBrown, Daniel James
Summary: "The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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Summary: When Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a Grammar Table sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words in this world. Here she tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 JOVGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "Discover how pigeons were trained for use in World Wars I and II. Learn about some of their most daring flights, and find out what other ways pigeons and humans work together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 355.4 GOLScalise, Mike
Summary: "Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCALISE, MIKE SCANicholl, Katie
Summary: Queen Elizabeth has been constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and Commonwealth. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor. Nicholl looks at Elizabeth's remarkable and unrivalled reign, and the changes taking place. She examines Charles's decades in waiting, and analyses the future of "The Firm" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.086 NICMartin, Chris
Summary: A look at the history of Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, discusses the company's leaders and game's creator, Markus Persson, Minecraft's fan community and its role in the company's success, and its future under Microsoft's ownership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 794.8 MARMullen, Jim (Jim R.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MULLordon, Claire
Summary: "Something is wrong with Claire, but she doesn't know what. Nobody does, not even her doctors. All she wants is to return to her happy and athletic teenage self. But her accumulating symptoms--chronic fatigue, pounding headaches, weight gain--hint that there's something not right inside Claire's body. Claire's high school experience becomes filled with MRIs, visits to the Mayo Clinic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 LORFine, Doug.
Summary: Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? Inan attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 FINCooper, Arshay
Summary: "Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team inthe nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.12 COOMorvan, Jean David
Summary: "Award-winning writer JD Morvan and renowned photographer Abbas' stunning graphic novel masterpiece which uses iconic photos to uniquely illustrate the historical 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. On the 30 th October 1974, the most famous boxing match of the 20th Century took place. Nicknamed the "Rumble in the Jungle", it pitted Muhammad Ali,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 MORHamer, Marc
Summary: "From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of the garden. In this restorative little book, best enjoyed in a single sitting under a tree, an adventurous young boy who traveled the world in his mind meets the old man he becomes, and together they build a new garden from a neglected plot behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2023