Summary: "For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RURSaile, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pruett Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 SAIWeintraub, 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 WEISummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESGouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUMendez, Jonna
Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024
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Summary: Rob Mendez, who was born without limbs, shares his journey to first become independent and then to become a high school football coach in the Bay Area.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MENDEZ, ROB MENMendez, Sean.
Summary: This healthy eating cookbook is aimed at encouraging young people to think about what they eat through emphasizing the importance of a balanced diet. It contains kitchen tips and suggests vegetarian substitutes to the meat recipes. One World Kids Cookbook aims to instill a passion for good, wholesome, healthy food as well as a passion for life. Includes fabulous dishes from around the world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Food MendezMendel, Janet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5946 MENMenuez, Doug.
Summary: Offers a pictorial chronicle of the Silicon Valley technology boom, beginning with Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer company in 1985 and expending to other innovative companies in the region up to the bursting of the dot com bubble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 979.473 MENMendes, Nuno
Summary: A cookbook showcasing the food and atmosphere of London's Chiltern Firehouse, a New York-style brasserie drawing praise and patrons from around the world. London's most fashionable, most talked about restaurant is Chiltern Firehouse, an iconic landmark and destination built in a stunning Victorian-Gothic firehouse in London's Marylebone neighborhood. Owned by hotelier Andre Balazs, whose other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5941 MENNazer, Mende.
Summary: The author provides an account of her experiences after being kidnapped from her Nuba village in 1993 by Arab raiders when she was twelve years old and sold into slavery, and discusses how she was able to gain her freedom seven years later while living and working for her master's sister in London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 NAZSade
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.6 SADSaeed, Aisha
Summary: "A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUSummary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANMendel, Iuliia
Summary: "In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MENMendel, Janet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5946 MENMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MENBarile, Nancy
Summary: "From disaffected Catholic schoolgirl and 1970s music fanatic to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile pursued freedom at a time when punk music was new and dangerous. While booking some of Philadelphia's earliest DIY shows featuring Minor Threat and SSD, and managing raw local acts, Nancy was at the fierce center of the action as insurgents such as the Dead Kennedys and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bazillion Points 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BARHendel, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 HENMenendez, Alicia
Summary: "Women are perceived as either strong and cold or weak and warm. An award-winning journalist and cohost of PBS's Amanpour and Company examines likability and empowers readers to reject an outdated image of leadership instead of reinventing themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 MENCaron, Claude
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familles Caron d'Amérique 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 CARMendez, Antonio J.
Summary: A top CIA operative offers an authorized account of his double life as a Department of Defense bureaucrat and a globe-trotting spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MENKerblay, Basile
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989