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Lancewood, Miriam

Summary: "Miriam Lancewood lives a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her husband in New Zealand. She lives simply in a tent or hut and survives by hunting wild animals, foraging edible plants and using minimal supplies. For the last six years, she and her husband have lived this way through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated but, more importantly, connected to the land...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Piatkus 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCEWOOD, MIRIAM LAN

Gurba, Myriam

Summary: "Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GURBA, MYRIAM GUR

Carey, Mariah

Summary: The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist tells the unfiltered story of her life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andy Cohen Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CAREY CAR

Kor, Eva Mozes

Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 KOR

Bamford, Maria

Summary: "From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems--from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAM

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAMFORD, MARIA BAM

Hinojosa, Maria

Summary: Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago. For thirty years she has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media, documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HINOJOSA HIN

Hinojosa, Maria

Summary: "María Hinojosa es una periodista galardonada que ha colaborado con las cadenas más respetadas y se ha distinguido por realizar reportajes con un toque humano. En estas memorias escritas con gran belleza, nos relata la historia de la política de inmigración de los EE.UU. que nos ha llevado al punto en que estamos hoy, al mismo tiempo que nos comparte su historia profundamente personal. Durante...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HIN

Ressa, Maria

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Summary: Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler....

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RES

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESSA, MARIA RES

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RESSA RES

Hinojosa, Maria

Summary: "Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from 'The Land of the Free' to 'the land of invasion'"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Yovanovitch, Maria L.

Summary: In a new memoir, the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, whose life and work have taught her the preciousness of democracy as well as the dangers of corruption, details her involvement in President Trump's impeachment inquiry and her response to his smear campaign.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOVANOVITCH, MARIA L. YOV

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