Rowbottom, Allie
Summary: "A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWBOTTOM, ALLIE ROWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROWBOTTOM ROBMyers, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYERS, KYL MYEDaniel, Mary-Alice
Summary: "Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANIEL, MARY-ALICE DANTörnvall, Clara
Summary: An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When portrayed in popular culture, women on the spectrum often appear simply as copies of their male...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2023