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Summary: "Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting ... the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age, and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NETANYAHU NETMesser, Leah
Summary: "Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV's groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen--from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MesserMaker, 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 MAKBoxer, Barbara.
Summary: Barbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning more than three decades. Now, retiring from the Senate, she continues the work to which she's dedicated 30 years in Congress. Her memoir shares her provocative and touching recollections of service, and cements her commitment to the fight for women, families, quality, environmental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOXER, BARBARA BOXCrump, Benjamin
Summary: "[Ben Crump] shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slave-owning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRUMP, BENJAMIN CRUHall, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, BENJAMIN HALJealous, Benjamin Todd
Summary: "'One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders' (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEALOUS, BENJAMIN TODD JEARhodes, Benjamin J.
Summary: For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the center of the Obama administration--first as a speechwriter, then as deputy national security advisor, and finally as a multipurpose aide and close collaborator. He started every morning in the Oval Office with the President's Daily Brief, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the center of some of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 RHOFoster, Craig
Summary: In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth--from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta--Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our love for all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between. Foster explores his struggles to remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 508 FOSFoster, Sutton
Summary: In these intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business, Tony Award-winner and the star of TV's Younger Sutton Foster shares memorable moments - including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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Summary: Hit So Hard begins with stories from a childhood informed by the AA meetings Schemel's parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her rebellious adolescence and first forays into drinking at age 11, which coincided with her passion for punk rock and playing drums. Her efforts to come to terms with her sexuality further drove her memorably hard playing, and by the late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2017
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Summary: This gripping and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and 30-year U.S. Marine veteran as he, suffering a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen, remained loyal to America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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Summary: "When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his 'one last chance' to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017