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Summary: "Cities are the engines of economic progress and the places that give birth to ideas that shape our lives. For generations, arriving in a major city was the first step toward the American Dream. But as housing costs skyrocket in job-rich cities across thenation, that door to opportunity is swinging shut. No place has felt this more acutely than the San Francisco Bay Area, where the mansions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.5 DOUKnighton, Conor
Summary: "The Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent chronicles his year traveling to every one of our National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people that America has to offer. When Conor Knighton decided to spend a year wandering through America's "best idea," he was worried the whole thing might end up being his worst idea. But after a broken engagement and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 KNICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KNIGHTON KNIByrne, Conor
Summary: Over the years, Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, has been slandered as a `juvenile delinquent', `empty-headed wanton' and `natural-born tart' who engaged in promiscuous liaisons prior to her marriage and committed adultery after her marriage to Henry VIII. This biography challenges these assumptions by drawing on seven years of research, demonstrating that Katherine's reputation is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATHERINE HOWARD, QUEEN BYRRichardson, Conor
Summary: "A financial guide for the American millennial. A relatable, easy-to-read, sequential, and comprehensive approach to paying off debt, building an automated savings system, buying life's early stage big purchases, and teaching readers how to live the truemillionaire lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Career Press 2019
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Summary: "A daughter's memoir of her mother evolves beautifully into a narrative of the sweeping changes in women's lives in the twentieth century. Our Revolution, vivid and rich, reads like a nineteenth-century novel as we follow the love story of a woman and herfamily through the twentieth-century civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements. Born into Boston society in 1923, Jenny Moore rebelled by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MOOBono
Summary: "Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONO BONCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BonoConnor, Alexandra.
Summary: Could a single scandalous painting rock two British monarchies, centuries apart and threaten the lives of everyone who knows of its existence? It could--if the painting contains proof of a liaison between a prostitute and a prince.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Oak 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConot, Robert E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.69 CONCoborn, John.
Summary: This book provides readers with the basics of turtle ownership, from selecting the right kind to providing the best feeding, housing and health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T.F.H. Publications 1995
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Summary: "This book is both an incredibly moving mother-son love story told in personal essays, and a parenting manual with concrete advice and actionable takeaways for feminists of all stripes hoping to dismantle toxic masculinity, one sweet boy at a time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 JHAJunor, Penny.
Summary: An in-depth portrait of William, the man who will be King of England-- and the story of his relationship with the woman who will be his queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAM, PRINCE JUNConot, Robert E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 CONRoss, Betsy McCaughey
Summary: "[The author] dissects the 2,572-page health law and lays out how it will affect your family's health and finances, your relationships with your doctor, and even your tax bill ... in plain English"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ROSCanon, Dan
Summary: "Law professor and civil rights lawyer Dan Canon argues that an astounding 97 percent of cases in the United States are disposed of quickly and quietly with plea deals, rather than the jury trials most of us envision. Over the last 200 years, the criminaljustice system has come to prioritize speed and volume above all else. The central question our courts ask is not whether justice is being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 CANCoker, Margaret
Summary: "From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COKFoner, Eric.
Summary: In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 FONFoner, Nancy
Summary: "An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched bookby one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 FONConty, Patrick.
Contents: The Gotland labyrinth -- The enigma -- The labyrinth is not a maze -- The trace of the ritual -- The equation and its solution -- The bound universe and the eternal return -- The woven myth -- The Malekula ritual and the story of Aneas -- The living and the dead -- A puzzle of myths -- The Malekula Nahals -- The temple as a knot -- About knots -- The origin of language in Dogon myth -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions International 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 CROFoner, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.01 FONHonore, Carl.
Summary: From the publisher: "Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent question from acclaimed journalist and international bestselling author Carl Honor'̌s son sparked a two-year investigation into how our culture of speed, efficiency, and success at all costs is damaging both parents and children. When the impulse to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 HONFoner, Eric
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner relates the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONFoner, Eric.
Summary: This new examination of the years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America. Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 FONHonoré, Carl.
Summary: "The Slow philosophy can be summed up in a single word - balance. People are discovering energy and efficiency where we may have least expected - in slowing down." "In this engaging and entertaining exploration, award-winning journalist and rehabilitated speedaholic Carl Honore details our perennial love affair with efficiency and speed in a perfect blend of anecdotal reportage, history, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2004