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Cannell, Michael

Summary: "The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a legendary moment in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careersand lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 CAN

Tunnell, Michael O.

Summary: "World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J943.1550 TUN

Tunnell, Michael O.

Summary: "In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 TUN

McRay, Michael T.

Summary: "Are you my enemy? Am I yours? Violent stories surround us. Brutal beginnings, horror-filled middles, despair-inducing endings. We need better stories: stories forged in the furnace of conflict, narratives that kindle compassion and ignite hope. In the pages of I Am Not Your Enemy, writer Michael T. McRay visits divided regions of the world and interviews activists, peacebuilders, former...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: SocialCult McRay

Kaufman, Michael T.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOROS, GEORGE KAU

Weissman, Michaele

Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISSMAN, MICHAELE WEI

DePrince, Michaela

Summary: "At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and quickly decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true."--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED DEP

Marnell, Cat

Summary: "From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARNELL, CAT MAR

Michaelis, David

Summary: Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR MIC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT MIC

Manvell, Roger

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhill 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MAN

Wallace, Carvell

Summary: "A lyrical meditation on healing-told through the lenses of justice, sex, love, family, and death-by journalist and podcaster Carvell Wallace"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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Dekel, Mikhal

Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DEK

Rannells, Andrew

Summary: When Rannells left Nebraska for New York City in 1997, he saw the city as a chance to start over. To transform the fiercely ambitious but sexually confused teenager he saw in the mirror into the Broadway leading man of his dreams. Here he shares the drama of failed auditions and behind-the-curtain romances, the heartbreak of losing his father at the height of his struggle, and the exhilaration...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RANNELLS, ANDREW RAN

Rannells, Andrew

Summary: "In deeply personal essays drawn from his life, as well as his career on Broadway and in Hollywood, Rannells argues that we all pretend we are constantly succeeding--for friends, partners, parents, and others--that we are constantly succeeding in the process known as "adulting." But if this acting is leaving us unfulfilled, then we need new markers of time, new milestones, new expectations of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RANNELLS, ANDREW RAN

Zygarʹ, Mikhail

Summary: "Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 ZYG

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol Zygar

Scherer, Migael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHERER, MIGAEL SCH

Sebastian, Mihail

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5381 SEB

Michaelis, Arno

Summary: Documents the story of the unlikely and powerful friendship between a Sikh and a former white supremacist in the aftermath of Wade Michael Page's murderous 2012 attack on a Wisconsin Sikh Temple, describing how they launched the Serve 2 Unite organization to promote community inclusion and fight hate crimes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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

Michaelis, David.

Summary: A portrait of the late creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip evaluates how his career was shaped by his midwestern working-class origins, family losses, and wartime experiences, offering insight into how familiar storylines closely reflected Schulz's private life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5092 MIC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULZ, CHARLES Michaelis

Michell, Tom.

Summary: "Whether as rugby team mascot or assistant swimming coach, the penguin known as Juan Salvador touches and transforms everyone he encounters, including Tom Michell, the young teacher who finds him and rescues him from an oil spill disaster. After a time, Juan Salvador (meaning "the saved one") receives a new name: Juan Salvado, or "the savior." Set against the turbulent world of political unrest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B MICHELL MIC

Stemple, Heidi E. Y.

Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 STE

Mandell, Judy

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MAN

Zygarʹ, Mikhail

Summary: "In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 ZYG

Maddow, Rachel

Summary: "The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.924 MAD

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 MAD

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