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Who was?Berger, Lynn
Summary: "A lovely, searching meditation on second children-on whether to have one and what it means to be one-that seamlessly weaves pieces of art and culture on the topic with scientific research and personal anecdotes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Presents portraits of fourteen American women who played important roles in American history, including Emma Willard, Abigail Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AKANA, ANNA AKAAnand, 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 ANACadbury, Deborah
Summary: British author Cadbury explores the many layers involved in the abdication crisis of 1936, which ceded the British crown to the seemingly least prepared of the four sons of George V, George VI, aka Bertie, who revealed himself in the subsequent crisis of war to be the most suitable and stalwart of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 CADHarbury, Jennifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Common Courage Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.81 HARBegley, Louis.
Contents: Preface / by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein -- The keys to Venice / by Anka Muhlstein -- The only way to enter Venice / by Louis Begley -- Venice : reflections of a novelist / by Louis Begley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.53104 BEGLevin, Janna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 LEVCadbury, Deborah
Summary: An exploration of Queen Victoria's matchmaking exploits details how she used her grandchildren to further the influence of the British Empire, despite their own plans and the turmoil that rocked Europe starting in the nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VICTORIA CADCadbury, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590.9 CADHarbury, Jennifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.8105 HARHanna, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.0889 HANHanna, Kathleen
Summary: "An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024
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Summary: A young peasant couple from southwest France wed just prior to to war's eruption in 1914 is forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence. Against the general background of the World War I, their letters reveal how war transformed their lives, reinforced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HANKrall, Hanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KRAWilson, A'ja
Summary: "From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A'ja Wilson comes an inspirational collection on what it means to grow up as a Black girl in America. This is a book for all the girls with an apostrophe in their name. This is for all the girls who are "too loud" and "too emotional." This is for all the girls who are constantly asked, "Oh, what did you do with your hair?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moment of Lift Books, Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 WILVon Bremzen, Anya.
Summary: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 VONAmeri, 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 AMEArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARAMichaelis, 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 MICVolz, Alia
Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOLZ, ALIA VOLOkun, Alanna
Summary: People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn't just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OKUBucci, Andra
Summary: "On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati, her four-year-old sister Andra, and other members of the family were deported to Auschwitz. Their mother Mira was determined to keep track of her girls. After being tattooed with their inmate numbers, she made them memorize her number and told them to "always remember your name." In keeping this promise to their mother, the sisters were able to be reunited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BUCCI BUCAbramson, Ann
Summary: Looks closely at Anne Frank's life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding from the Nazis, and the legacy of her diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007