Hsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICKERS, MICHAEL G. VICFriend, Stephen
Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, STEPHEN FRIMoore, Wayétu
Summary: "When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, WAYETU MOOTurke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld
Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TURFaust, Drew Gilpin
Summary: "Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FaustMiller, Christopher C.
Summary: "President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden. If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trump's final Secretary of Defense, elevated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHRISTOPHER C. MILJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022