Pressler, Mirjam.
Summary: A lost treasure trove (6,000 documents) from her grandmother's attic about Anne Frank and her family, now woven into a chronicle. An old lady dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law, Gertrude, steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of death--she heads upstairs to the attic to sort through the effects. But Helene Elias wasn't just any old lady, and none...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Peskowitz, Miriam
Summary: Coding is about creativity, self-expression, and telling your story. It's solving problems and being curious, building things, making the world a better place, and creating a future. It's about you: whoever you are, wherever you're at, whatever you want.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A, Knopf 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.1 PESRoberts, Tomos
Summary: A narrator describes life before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the social and personal changes that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBMarsden, Mariah
Summary: "Locked doors. Unseen magic. The most contrary of friends. Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. But as she begins to explore her new home alongside ragtag companions--a cocky robin redbreast, a sour-faced gardener, and a boy who can talk to animals--Mary uncovers long-buried family secrets and learns that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARFrank, Anne
Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRABamford, Maria
Summary: "From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems--from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAMRodale, Maria
Summary: Maria Rodale was raised on real food. She doesn't think of eating homemade, from scratch meals as part of a trend or movement; it has always been her life. Raised in a family of farmers, bakers, chefs, gardeners, and publishers, Maria is used to growing, cooking, reading and writing about, and eating organic, delicious food. And now, for the first time ever, she's sharing her tried-and-true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 RODHinojosa, Maria
Summary: Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago. For thirty years she has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media, documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HINJohnson, Lois Joy.
Summary: Describes how women over forty can reinvent their wardrobes and reimagine their personal style without breaking the bank, and offers solutions to specific fashion problems and body concerns faced by women in this age group--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Pr. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 JOHFleming, Maria.
Summary: While delivering eggs to his animal friends, Easter Bunny has an accident and his friends must find a way to cheer him up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE FLEFinn, Maria.
Summary: Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair, take risks, and sort out what it is you really want. As Maria's world begins to revolve around the friendships she makes in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2010
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Coyle, McKayla
Summary: Do you ever feel gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don't fit in? You might be a goblin! That means that your imperfections and idiosyncrasies are the most awesome things about you, and you can build a more harmonious life by accepting and honoring them. Coyle shows you how to take inspiration from the frogs, fungi, moss, rocks and dirt that goblins love. She includes life advice for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 645 COYMachado, Carmen Maria
Summary: The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019