Golenbock, Peter
Summary: A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB AARON GOLFalk, Byron A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roxbury Data Interface 1976
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Sánchez, Aarón
Summary: Chef and television personality Aarón Sánchez recounts his formative years and how he fell in love with the culinary world. From a summer spent in New Orleans with Paul Prudhomme during his adolescent years, to a short-lived stint in culinary school, to ups and downs in New York City's ever-changing restaurant scene, and ultimately to the dizzying world of food television, Sánchez draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCHEZ, AARON SANNelson, Willie
Summary: "Music legend Willie Nelson and his sister and longtime bandmate Bobbie Nelson tell the story of their Texas childhood, and how music kept their family strong in good times and bad"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NELHanc, John.
Contents: The boy who walked to the zoo and ran to the ends of the earth -- The last race on earth -- Baby, we were born to run...but in Antarctica? -- All feet on deck -- Going south -- English lessons, Russian rules -- The Drake Lake effect -- The madness of King George Island -- At a glacial pace -- Bicycle-riding grandmas of the Antarctic -- Southern discomfort, northern exposure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 HANGoldsberry, Kirk Patrick
Summary: Goldsberry's spatial and visual analyses of players, teams, and positions have helped teams understand who really is the most valuable player at any position. In this book, he combines stunning visuals, in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes stories and gee-whiz facts to chart a modern revolution. He shows that, from the introduction of the 3-point line to today, the game has changed drastically....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 GOLBordowitz, Hank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schirmer Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 BORBaron, Martin
Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BARStuever, Hank.
Summary: In "Tinsel," Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.4556 STUIrish, Aarol W
Summary: "On May 26, 2006, one month and one day after her father's death, Teresa Irish raised the lid on the Army trunk that had resided in the family home her entire life. There, nestled in row after row, were her dad's nearly 1,000 handwritten letters from World War II. Carefully tucked away and visited only by him over the course of six decades, the letters were postmarked from November, 1942 to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [ATLH Publications] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 IRISH, AAROL W IRIHack, Richard.
Summary: Based on newly uncovered personal letters, sealed court testimony, recently declassified FBI files, and never-before-revealed autopsy findings, this book by an investigative journalist and Hollywood insider is the definitive biography of Howard Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HACMessick, Hank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McKay 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOAppelfeld, Aron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.436 APPCaron, Leslie.
Summary: From her childhood with her American mother and French father in occupied France to her early success as a young ballerina; to her meeting with Gene Kelly and her years in Hollywood; to her love affairs (including a very funny and very public one with Warren Beatty) and motherhood; to her alcoholosm and depression; and finally her recovery and continuing success in fim and television, Caron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARON, LESLIE CARAguon, Julian
Summary: "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 AGUWoerden, Henk van
Summary: Publisher description: If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafas would be that man. At a time when color was all, Tsafas, bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, was untouchable -- too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, he entered South Africa's Parliament...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.31 WOESachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)
Contents: East : Humboldt and the influence of Europe -- South : J.N. Reynolds and the "more comprehensive promise" of the Antarctic -- West : Clarence King's experience of the frontier -- North : George Wallace Melville and John Muir in extremis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.09 SACDuffy, Eamon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUFGaren, Micah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GREVaron, Elizabeth R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.785 VarJenner, Caryn
Summary: Shares the experiences of important women in history, including Aung San Suu Kyi, Arianna Huffington, and Madam C.J. Walker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 JENCarmon, Irin
Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CarCarmon, Irin
Summary: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG CARBarton, Chris
Summary: "A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022