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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 DEERRau, Dana Meachen
Summary: Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHAFrum, David
Summary: "A huge swath of Americans see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them. It's no wonder they'd rather burn it all down. But the fire can be stopped by Americans who act now to protect their country and its democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 FRUFife, Graeme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.01 FIFFarr, Sheila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grover/Thurston Gallery and Laura Russo Gallery in association with University of Washington Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 FARFies, Brian
Summary: "Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 FIEFort, Adrian.
Summary: A portrait of the social activist and first female member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons includes coverage of her American ancestry, her determination to use her influence to introduce American ideas into British politics and her relationships with such figures as Winston Churchill, FDR and J. M. Barrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin'S Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASTOR, NANCY FORFrum, David
Summary: Quietly, steadily, Trump and his administration are damaging the tenets and accepted practices of American democracy. As he and his family enrich themselves, the presidency itself falls into the hands of the generals and financiers who surround him. While much of the country has been focused on Russia, David Frum has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, and flagrant disregard for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 FRUFink, Jesse
Summary: "Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest anti-narcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAVIA, LUIS FINHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. Then the seizures happened again and again. This book tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 HUSFine, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Historical Collections, University of Michigan 1968
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 940.483 FINFine, Doug.
Summary: Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? Inan attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 FINLanier, Heather Kirn
Summary: "The author's daughter was born with a very rare genetic syndrome and faced a daunting prognosis: she would be a fraction of normal size, have innumerable physical and mental difficulties and likely a shortened lifespan. Now, at age eight she is attendingstandard public school classes. This is the story of her family's journey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANIER, HEATHER KIRN LANPtacin, Mira
Summary: "A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest- running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna-an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: "From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, comes the riveting story of a wealthy heiress who joined the OSS and was the only American woman in uniform to be captured by the Germans; her imprisonmentamong the Nazi elite and daring escape in 1945 comprise one of the more remarkable untold episodes of WWII. Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEGENDRE, GERTRUDE SANDFORD FINNFinn, Peter
Summary: Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 FINHoneycutt, Kirk
Summary: Hughes allegedly wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in four days, Planes, Trains and Automobiles in three days, The Breakfast Club in two days, and Vacation in a week. He never went to film school or studied cinema. And he spent most of his incredible career in the Midwest, far from the Hollywood Hills. John Hughes was indeed one of the most prolific and successful filmmakers in Hollywood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Race Point Publishing, A division of Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HONKirk, Jay.
Summary: An account of the life of the famed explorer and taxidermist assesses his influence on American views about natural-world conservation, covering his dangerous pursuits of wildlife for his dioramas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 KIRBrown, Jenny
Summary: Traces how the author lost a leg to bone cancer in childhood before connecting with farm animals and questioning her Southern Baptist upbringing to expose what she has learned about slaughterhouse abuses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, JENNY BROBird, Jackson
Summary: "Internet creator and activist Jackson Bird demystifies the transgender experience by sharing his own story, while debunking trans history milestones and educating readers with Transgender 101 facts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 921 BIRD, JACKSON BIRFine, Aubrey H.
Contents: Discoveries -- My life on the "ranch": just follow the yellow brick road home -- Giving from the Hart: becoming a comforter and a human builder -- Fending off loneliness -- Do you believe in magic? -- Giving and accepting a second chance -- Writing from the Hart: becoming a Cyrano de Bergerac -- One of life's lessons: carpe diem -- Remembering lifetimes -- Serendipity can lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 FINBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRBird, Kai.
Summary: Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014