Birkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRCarlsson, Sven
Summary: The David vs. Goliath story of Spotify CEO and Founder Daniel Ek―who bet everything on disruptive innovation, and played the giants of Silicon Valley, the music industry, and the podcast world in his quest to build today’s largest online source of audio
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3828 CARHerkert, Barbara
Summary: A biography of the author known for such beloved classics as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," explores how his lifelong fascination with the outdoors inspired his most popular work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHIReuckert, Veronica
Summary: In Outspoken, Veronica Rueckert—a Peabody Award–winning former host at Wisconsin Public Radio, trained opera singer, and communications coach—teaches women to recognize the value of their voices and tap into their inherent power, potential, and capacity for self-expression. Detailing how to communicate in meetings, converse around the dinner table, and dominate political debates, Outspoken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperbusiness 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2242 RUEPickert, Kate
Summary: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 PICBeckett, Samuel
Summary: "In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories, which was his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones," to serve as the final piece. However, he had already killed off several of the characters--including the protagonist, Belacqua--throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBecker, Elizabeth
Summary: "One spent 23 days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Kate Webb were the first female frontline journalists in the history of US war reporting. Over the course of the Vietnam War they challenged the rules and expectations imposed on them, all in an effort to get the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BECBecker, Joshua
Summary: Provides a new perspective and a fresh approach to overcoming clutter through practical application and inspirational stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Becoming Minimalist 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home BeckerSuen, Anastasia.
Summary: Describes how electricity is conducted and follows its route from a power plant to the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2007
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Summary: "Some low-frequency sounds--such as noise from storms or truck engines--can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might just come through the study of the Achilles tendon. A person gets "falling down drunk" due to a tiny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health SvecShen, Ann
Summary: Shen profiles women of color who pushed the boundaries, rewrote the rules, and led the way for the women in the communities to follow in their footsteps. From the big screen to the halls of NASA; from the courts of the US OPen to the Supreme Court, these short (one- to three-page) articles will inspire you to embrace your authentic self and live your life in full color. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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Summary: "Bad Girls Throughout History features some of the fiercest women of all time - the famous, the infamous, and the ones you haven't even heard of yet. Explore the notable works, impressive feats, and striking portraits of these wild women from around the globe who challenged the status quo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom ShenSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENFrahm, Eckart
Summary: "In Assyria, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of one of the ancient world's most accomplished civilizations, the Assyrian Empire. Tracing its origins to a minor city state in present-day Iraq, Assyria at its height, around 660 BCE, stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, the first empire the world had seen. Breath-taking, belligerent conquest -- epitomized in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 935 FRASen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENEckert, Allan W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ECKBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Books 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 704 BECSen, Paul
Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 536 SENEckert, Allan W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 ECKWecker, Helene
Summary: "Set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to The Golem and the Jinni revisits Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WECEckert, Allan W.
Summary: For over two hundred years no Indian force in America was so powerful and feared as the Iroquois League. Throughout two thirds of this continent, the cry of "The Iroquois are coming!" was enough to demoralize entire tribes. But these Iroquois occupied and controlled a vast wilderness empire which beckoned like a precious gem to foreign powers. France and England secured toeholds and suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ECKEckert, Allan W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 ECKBecker, Helaine
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of various prehistoric insects, including trilobites, griffinflies, cockroaches, and centipedes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019