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Anand, Anita

Summary: Follows the princess who, at the age of thirty-one, secretly went to India and returned as a revolutionary to fight for Indian Independence, the welfare of Indian soldiers in World War I, and, above all, women's suffrage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULEEP SINGH, SOPHIA ANA

Akana, Anna

Summary: "From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin to heal was comedy. So she began making YouTube videos as a form of creative expression and as a way to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AKANA, ANNA AKA

Nickel, Sandra

Summary: "A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANA

Summary: "Whether you are new to the poetry and proses of Shakespeare, and in need of a guide through the complex plots and unfamiliar language, or looking for a fresh perspective on his much-loved plays and sonnets, this book will shed light on the work of one of world literature's greatest figures"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Publishing 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHA

Prahlad, Anand

Summary: In 1954 a black boy is born on a plantation in rural Virginia. He inhabits a liminal inner world where sensory experiences blur together and memory is fluid. For the first four years of his life, he doesn't speak. Then he finds his voice. Slowly entering the outside world, he evolves into an artist and educator whose extraordinary literary and musical gifts emerge through unspoken neurological...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Alaska Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRAHLAD, ANAND PRA

DeGraf, Anna

Summary: Anna DeGraf, an independent pioneer, recounts her twenty-five years of adventure in Alaska and the Yukon Territory before, during, and after the Gold Rush.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Archon Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEGRAF, ANNA DEG

Dorn, Anna

Summary: "In the tradition of How to Murder Your Life, a young woman's witty memoir demystifying law school and lawyers through tales of her own badness, the badness of her peers, and the badness of the law in general"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DORN, ANNA DOR

Faris, Anna

Summary: The popular actress shares funny stories about her misadventures with romance to offer offbeat advice on navigating the bizarre, chaotic, and ultimately worthwhile challenges of finding love.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FARIS, ANNA FAR

Quindlen, Anna.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen uses the mastery of the medium in which she works to send an utterly compelling message as she explores the importance of books in her life and their vital role in society. THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 Quindlen, Anna Quindlen

Shechtman, Anna

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable 'queen of crosswords,' Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Whitelock, Anna.

Summary: An Elizabethan expert describes the court of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a vivid picture of the gossip, conspiracy, intrigue, and romantic dalliances that surrounded the monarch and the daily lives of the women that attended her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 WHI

Funder, Anna

Summary: "A riveting work about the woman who sacrificed her future for one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and a probing look at what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, award-winning writer Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Kendrick, Anna

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Summary: "A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses,"--Baker & Taylor. At the ripe age of thirteen, Kendrick had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged.”...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, ANNA KEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KENDRICK KEN

Pasternak, Anna

Summary: The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya—the true tragedy behind the timeless classic When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak—whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet—he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PASTERNAK PAS

Quindlen, Anna

Summary: "Before mommy blogs were even invented, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of motherhood in her nationally syndicated column. Now she's taking the next step and going full Nana in the pages of this lively and moving book about her grandchildren, her children, and her new and remarkable role"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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

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

Politkovskai͡a, Anna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.52 POL

Quindlen, Anna.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed," writes Pulitzer-winning author Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she's learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 QUI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5403 QUI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5403 QUI

David, Anna

Summary: Using "Sex and the single girl" by Helen Gurley Brown as a lesson plan, Anna David ventured out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2011

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Quindlen, Anna.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Author Anna Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with her dog's life and on the lessons she's learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.5403 QUI

Reser, Anna

Summary: From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.252 RES

Wiener, Anna

Summary: "The story of Anna Wiener's time spent working in Silicon Valley as the tech industry went through monumental changes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIENER, ANNA WIE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WIENER WIE

Ameri, Anan

Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMERI, ANAN AME

Lekas Miller, Anna

Summary: "Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 LEK

Paperny, Anna Mehler

Summary: "A personal story of depression, as well as a journalistic account of its role and ramifications in society today"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAPERNY, ANNA MEHLER PAP

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