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Summary: Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.92 HAFCatudal, Steph
Summary: "When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATUDAL, STEPHANIE CATZiyad, Hari
Summary: "An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛiṣhṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZIYAD, HARI ZIYGorani, Hala
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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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 FRIHough, Stephen
Summary: Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and recordings. He is also a writer, composer and painter. As an international performer he spends much of his life at airports, on planes, and in hotel rooms and this book expands notes he has made, in his words, 'during that dead time on the road'. He writes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.2092 HOUKuusisto, Stephen
Summary: A blind poet describes his relationship with his first guide dog and how it changed his life and gave him a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUUSISTO, STEPHEN KUUSmith, Stephen A. (Stephen Anthony)
Summary: Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced a number of struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SMITH, STEPHEN A SMISmith, Stephen A. (Stephen Anthony)
Summary: "America's most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this surprisingly personal book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN, and who he really is when the cameras are off. Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 13A/Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, STEPHEN A SMIHatch, Steven
Summary: "Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HATCH HATHauser, Stephen L.
Summary: "A doctor's powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40 year quest to find a treatment for MS. Dr. Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating brain disease that affects millions of people worldwide. His work has revolutionized our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAUSER, STEPHEN L. HAUMatthews, Stephen R.
Summary: By the time Stephen Matthews was six years old, he had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from Nazi-occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. This memoir is told through Stephen's own experiences as well as writings from his mother's diaries and previously unpublished photos of historical significance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATTHEWS, STEPHEN R. MATRonstadt, Linda
Summary: "Feels Like Home is a love letter to Ronstadt's Mexican American roots. It tells of her coming of age in the world between Tucson and the Rio Sonora region of northern Mexico, presented through stories, photographs, and recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RONSTADT, LINDA RONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RonstadtHart, Kevin
Summary: Superstar, comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include, the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and listeners have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in themselves since Old Yeller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 790 HarHall, Benjamin
Summary: "When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. This is the story of how he survived--a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full--from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: In 2017, Eddie Hall became the World's Strongest Man. Eddie brings you into the heart of his training camp as he prepares for his greatest challenge yet, a boxing ring showdown with his nemesis, Hafthor Bjornsson. He also reflects on the lessons he's learned over the course of his life, and draws on them to overcome each new setback, from injuries and illness to uncertainty and grief. Eddie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, EDDIE HALDanziger, Jeff
Summary: "Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2021