Coble, Colleen
Summary: "Suspense melds with romance as the past meets the present in this engrossing new novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble... Harper Taylor is used to being alone. Her mother passed away in a car accident when she was an infant, she never knew who her father was, and now even the widowed grandmother who raised her is gone. She's done just fine investing her marine biology degree...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COBStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STONivola, Claire A.
Summary: A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio EarleStowe, Hannah
Summary: "As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOWE, HANNAH STOMoore, Stuart.
Summary: "When the X-Men are confronted with a deadly vampire threat, Namor takes matters into his own hands on a mission that might bring the entire might of the Marvel Universe's vampires down on their heads--and destroy Atlantis in the process! What lurks in the depths of the ocean where the sun does not reach? What Namor thought was a fable to scare the children of Atlantis comes to terrifying life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NAMStone, Tanya Lee
Summary: "An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FRAOomen, Anne-Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 818.603 OOMFowler, Shannon Leone
Summary: "From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took—through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond—to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOWLER, SHANNON LEONE FOWKingston, Maxine Hong
Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KINGermano, Kate
Summary: The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERMANO, KATE GERWidder, Edith
Summary: "Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIDDER, EDITH WIDOomen, Anne-Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word OomenMcGrath, Amy
Summary: "A memoir of the author's journey to becoming a fighter pilot; her twenty years in the military; and the events that led to her decision to run for U.S. Senate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGRATH, AMY MCGNakamura, May
Summary: Do you love dolphins and the ocean? Then you could be a marine biologist, an aquatic veterinarian, or an underwater filmmaker! Learn about these careers and more in this book that includes a glossary and backmatter section of even more cool jobs for kids who like dolphins and other marine life!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE NAKCussler, Dirk
Summary: "In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "Meet Chris and Martin Kratt, two brothers who turned a love of animals into an amazing career! They have produced, written, directed, and starred in several PBS series and specials over the years. Most recently, they have become known for PBS's smash hit animated show Wild Kratts. Along the way, they traveled the world and encountered incredible creatures, all while combining science education...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: "A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading Ob/Gyn and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health. The medical system today is increasingly complicated and impersonal, and unfortunately, it is not going to be less so in the future. The rules of engagement have changed in medicine, but no one has bothered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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Oomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "As the 1960s dawned in small-town Michigan, Anne-Marie Oomen was a naive farm girl whose mother was determined to keep her out of trouble-by keeping her in 4-H. In Love, Sex, and 4-H , Oomen sets the wholesomeness of her domestic lessons in 4-H club from 1959 to 1969 against the political and sexual revolution of the time. Between sewing her first dish towel and finishing the yellow dress she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OOMEN, ANNE-MARIE OOMRoden Winter, Molly
Summary: "A magnetic, intensely personal debut memoir of a happily married mother's exploration of sex and relationships--outside of her marriage. Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again, she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu drinks with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODEN WINTER, MOLLY RODBhagwati, Anuradha Kristina
Summary: "A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military. Aftera lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career at Harvard University to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BHAGWATI, ANURADHA KRISTINA BHAChurnin, Nancy
Summary: "Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. So when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she jumped at the chance. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her. Now her portraits hang in Washington,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books, LLC 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 WARSummary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARLourie, Peter.
Summary: Highlights the work scientists are doing to protect the manatee, an endangered species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2011