Parks, Casey
Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBNovak, Jacqueline
Summary: In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted? Rundown? Filled with a vague sense of ennui, an occasional twinge of regret, or a hell of a lot of mood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 818.602 NOVFanone, Michael
Summary: "An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 FANCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FANONE FANRocca, Mo
Summary: "Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering--breaking out as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "From journalist and poet Melissa Bond, a gripping account of the author's addiction to benzodiazepines (a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) and the hidden dangers they pose. As Melissa mothers her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOND, MELISSA BONNietfeld, Emi
Summary: "A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIETFELD, EMI NIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult NietfeldDuraffourg, Willy
Summary: "This graphic novel explores the youth of the author of The Lord of the Rings, and his traumatic experience of the battlefields of the First World War, which will forge the imagination of his literary work" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. DURBlack, Justin
Summary: In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-inhand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their poast, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Perspectives Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BlackReid, William H.
Summary: "On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 REISchwartz, Morris S.
Summary: "From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SCHAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ADICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ADIDouglas, John E
Summary: 'John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world'--Jonathan Demme, Director of The Silence of the Lambs. In The Killer Across the Table, legendary FBI criminal profiler and number one bestselling author John Douglas delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers he's encountered, offering never-before-revealed details...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mindhunters, INC. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 DOUBair, Deirdre
Summary: "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIR, DEIRDRE BAIHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "Akiko has finally achieved her dream of becoming a manga artist! She's almost ready to fully immerse herself in the wonderful world of shoujo when Hidaka-sensei approaches her. Just what does he want?"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLASiegel, Siena Cherson
Summary: "Siena Cherson Siegel dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet.. Siena has worked hard her whole life to be a professional ballet dancer, then makes the difficult decision to quit dancing and tries to figure out what comes next. But what do you do when you have spent your entire life working toward a goal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIEBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "Discover 25 women whose disabilities did not stand in the way of their great achievements. Each woman profiled in this collection faced the challenge of a disability while pursuing excellence in her field, including the arts, sciences, sports, and politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 BERLee, Joe
Summary: "In March of 1944, at age 10, little Eva was arrested with her entire family, including her twin sister, Miriam, for the "crime" of being Jewish. Nazis loaded Eva and her family into a cattle car with other men, women, and children headed to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Within moments of their arrival, the twins lost their entire family to the gas chambers without a chance to say...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Lightning Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOR, EVA LEEMestyanek Young, Daniella
Summary: "In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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Summary: The founder of Preszler Woodshop discusses his long-time estrangement from his father and how he overcame the grief and loss of his father's death through a carpentry project completed with inherited tools.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESZLER, TRENT PRESebestyen, Victor
Summary: "Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENIN, VLADIMIR ILYICH SEBZijl, Annejet van der
Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJAbdelmahmoud, Elamin
Summary: "Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario's endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal--for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many threads that weave together into an identity. Arriving in Canada at age 12...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABDELMAHMOUD, ELAMIN ABDFriedman, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit music in college but never stopped fantasizing about what her life might be like if she had never put down her bow. Years later, a freelance writer in New York, she again finds herself struggling with her fantasy of an artist's life versus its much more complicated reality. In search of answers, she decides to track down her childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019