Ameri, Anan

Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017

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Maker, Janet

Summary: When Dr. Maker was diagnosed in 2011, she, like most people, knew almost nothing about breast cancer. What she did know is that she didn't feel safe simply following her doctors' advice. The treatment is not always successful; some people die, and some who survive have disabling side effects. She needed to understand for herself all her treatment options, the statistical outcomes for each...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jane Thomas Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 MAK

Alnes, Jacqueline

Summary: "Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALNES, JACQUELINE ALN

Morley, Anders

Summary: "A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORLEY, ANDERS MOR

Liontas, Annie

Summary: "Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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Myers, Leah

Summary: "Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023

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Myers, Kyl

Summary: "'What did you have? A boy or a girl?' Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then... As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books/Little A 2020

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