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Dunham, Cyrus Grace

Summary: "For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations--lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman--until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable. Moving between Grace and Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUNHAM, CYRUS GRACE DUN

Burnham, Gracia.

Summary: Presents a firsthand account of the kidnapping of two American missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines, a yearlong ordeal that ended with the death of the author's husband, Martin Burnham.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.9048 BUR

Taylor, D. J. (David John)

Summary: "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 TAY

Perry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan)

Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Friddell, Claudia

Summary: "Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAN

Grande, Reyna

Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRA

Marx, Jonny

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 360 Degrees, an imprint of Tiger Tales 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 MAR

Beaton, Roderick

Summary: A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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Buhayer, Constantine

Summary: For much of its history Cyprus was regarded as the Cinderella of empires--beautiful, abused, isolated. Today, the island is divided between the Greek-Cypriot south and the Turkish occupied north. However, both sides take pride in a shared "Cypriotness," and are united in their common hopes, pain, memories, music, excellent cuisine, rich history, and majestic landscape.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.693 CYP

Abani, Chris

Summary: "In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Word Essay Abani

Stewart, Chris

Summary: Chris Stewart had a long and eclectic list of jobs. From some of the most glamorous careers - he was original drummer in Genesis - to the more offbeat - a sheep shearer and circus performer - he had done it all...or almost all. So when he is offered the chance to captain a sailboat in the Greek islands one summer, something he had never done before, he jumps at the chance. Ever the optimist,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 STE

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Hosts K.T. Comer and Adela Ucar explore the many different styles and cultures of Cyprus & Crete .

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.8 CYP

Lupiano, Vincent dePaul

Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 LUP

Malala, Justice

Summary: "Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader's popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? In The Plot to Save South...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.07 MAL

Cohan, Willam D.

Summary: An authoritative account of the Duke lacrosse team rape case illuminates the ever-widening gap between America's rich and poor, and demonstrates how far the powerful will go to protect themselves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1532 COH

McGoogan, Cara

Summary: "Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan follows the twisting trail of tightlipped executives and missing documents to bravely ask if the line of corruption could have been broken, whether people could have been saved, and, ultimately, who is to blame for the thousands of unnecessary deaths. McGoogan not only uncovers the scandal of Factor VIII but also exposes a sweeping blueprint for corporate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp. 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 MCG

Markham, Lauren

Summary: "A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present. When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024

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Albritton, Jane (EDT)

Contents: On our way-- and back again -- Bound for the Philippines -- Puerto Rico : memories from a battered box -- Philippines : back to school -- Afghanistan : God, president Kennedy, and me -- Tonga : far away places -- Thailand : visits with the veterans -- Philippines : stop pig! drop the flip-flop! -- Samoa : return to the land of the morning calm -- Korea : a letter to Sri Padmanabham -- India :...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.6 EVE

Maddox, Robert (Robert Phillip)

Contents: General Motors -- Buick Regal -- Chevrolet Lumina -- Chevrolet Monte Carlo -- Pontiac Grand Prix -- Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. Group 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 GENERAL MOTORS 1988-1995

Froome, Chris

Summary: The margin of victory was stunning: four minutes and twenty seconds. The style was breathtaking: three stage wins, including a mesmerizing climb on the iconic Mont Ventoux. But the full story behind Chris Froome and his unforgettable triumph at the 100th Tour de France in 2013, which culminated under the lights of the Champs-Elysees, is even more remarkable.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014

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Spilling, Michael

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Summary: "Despite its small size, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus has a long and vibrant past, serving as a gateway between Europe and the Middle East. This book examines the geography, history, culture, and more of both the nation's Greek-speaking south and the Turkish north. Photographs, facts, and sidebars all help to show readers what life in Cyprus is really like."--Provided by publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.93 SPI

Tyner, Artika R.

Summary: "When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 TYN

Starr, Emmet.

Summary: A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Starr

Henry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard)

Contents: Rescuing Jews in the south of France -- Daniel's choice -- Madeleine Dreyfus : righteous Jew -- Albert Camus' The plague -- The rescuers of Jews.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catholic University of America Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HEN

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