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Anand, Anita

Summary: Follows the princess who, at the age of thirty-one, secretly went to India and returned as a revolutionary to fight for Indian Independence, the welfare of Indian soldiers in World War I, and, above all, women's suffrage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULEEP SINGH, SOPHIA ANA

Levin, Janna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 LEV

Hanna, Martha.

Summary: A young peasant couple from southwest France wed just prior to to war's eruption in 1914 is forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence. Against the general background of the World War I, their letters reveal how war transformed their lives, reinforced...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAN

Von Bremzen, Anya.

Summary: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 VON

Abramson, Ann

Summary: Looks closely at Anne Frank's life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding from the Nazis, and the legacy of her diary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRA

Ameri, Anan

Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMERI, ANAN AME

Arana, Marie

Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARA

Volz, Alia

Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOLZ, ALIA VOL

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club Kit

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

1 hold on 8 copies

Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

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2 available in Adult, Call number: 615.9 HAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANNA-ATTISHA, MONA HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-Attisha

Funder, Anna

Summary: "A riveting work about the woman who sacrificed her future for one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and a probing look at what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, award-winning writer Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAIR, EILEEN FUN

Pasternak, Anna

Summary: The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya—the true tragedy behind the timeless classic When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak—whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet—he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PASTERNAK PAS

Dorn, Anna

Summary: "In the tradition of How to Murder Your Life, a young woman's witty memoir demystifying law school and lawyers through tales of her own badness, the badness of her peers, and the badness of the law in general"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DORN, ANNA DOR

Whitelock, Anna.

Summary: An Elizabethan expert describes the court of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a vivid picture of the gossip, conspiracy, intrigue, and romantic dalliances that surrounded the monarch and the daily lives of the women that attended her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 WHI

Politkovskai͡a, Anna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.52 POL

Reser, Anna

Summary: From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.252 RES

Summary: "Whether you are new to the poetry and proses of Shakespeare, and in need of a guide through the complex plots and unfamiliar language, or looking for a fresh perspective on his much-loved plays and sonnets, this book will shed light on the work of one of world literature's greatest figures"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Publishing 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHA

Denise, Anika

Summary: An inspiring biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Pura Belpré Honor-winning creators Anika Aldamuy Denise and Loris Lora! In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest congresswoman in America. How did this young Puertoriquena become an unstoppable force in politics? Find out in this accessible and engaging book for young readers. AOC's remarkable story begins in her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OCA

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OCA

Denise, Anika

Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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Denise, Anika

Summary: "The life of Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno, from her girlhood journey to the United States to her rise as a timeless superstar."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOR

Frith, Margaret.

Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISON

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who Edison

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUT

Lewis, Anna M.

Summary: "Reporting on a range of historical and contemporary female builders and designers, this educational book strives to inspire a new generation of girls in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math. With many of the profiles set againstthe backdrop of such landmark events as the women's suffrage and civil rights movements and the Industrial Revolution, and with original...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014

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

Lekas Miller, Anna

Summary: "Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 LEK

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