Fowler, Connie May.
Summary: Award-winning author Connie May Fowler chronicles the emotional battery and physical abuse that she suffered from her boyfriend and explains how the dedication of her dog Kateland got her through the difficult times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 FOWSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC HOS (Graphic Novel)Griffith, Evan
Summary: The biography of Jeanne Villepreux-Power whose curiosity about undersea life led her to pioneer the use of glass tanks for research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POWTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYMandela, Winnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MANSchofield-Morrison, Connie
Summary: "A talented seamstress, born enslaved in 1818, bought freedom for herself and her son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KECSpinner, Stephanie.
Summary: An account of the life and exploits of the sharpshooting entertainer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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Summary: The inspiring autobiography of a girl stricken blind and deaf when she was two years old.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio KellerBowler, Kate
Summary: "A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWLER, KATE BOWLownie, Andrew
Summary: "The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamor and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster through the heart of the twentieth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOWPowter, Geoff
Summary: This collection of original and previously published pieces includes provocative editorial and opinion work about the state of adventure, personal tales from a life of exploration and risk-taking, some touches of humour, and award-winning profiles of some of Canada's mountaineering greats. Stories include conversations with and profiles of alpine personalities such as Barry Blanchard, Sonnie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RMB Rocky Mountain Books Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 POWBowler, Kate
Summary: "We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GREKobler, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 KOBKohler, Sheila
Summary: "A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOHLER, SHEILA KOHLownie, Andrew
Summary: "Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURGESS, GUY LOWGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "In 2015 the Pentagon changed a historical ruling, allowing American women to serve in front-line ground combat troops. Women have served in the military throughout history. Yet no matter their title, they face discrimination and even sexual assault. Meet the women who serve their country and stand up for fairness."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 GOLBowdler, Michelle
Summary: "Alice Sebold meets Roxane Gay in Michelle Bowdler's literary debut, telling her story of rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone. Award-winning writer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWDLER, MICHELLE BOWDowner, Lesley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.613 DOWLownie, Andrew
Summary: The complex and contradictory lives of the Windsors following Edward's abdication of the British throne in 1936. Shut out by the royal family, the couple was forced into exile--but a glamorous one in which they flitted from sumptuously appointed mansions in the south of France to luxurious residences in Palm Beach. They were spoiled, selfish people, obsessed with their image, reveling in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LOWMak, Geert.
Summary: Journalist Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. In the voices of prominent figures and unknown players, Mak combines the larger story of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 MAKMosler, Layne.
Summary: "A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSLER, LAYNE MOSMusk, Maye
Summary: "The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously--carefully." Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamourous--she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Life 2019