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Summary: "Senator Kamala Harris's picture book memoir in which she tells her life story and shows how everyone can be a superhero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARHarris, Kamala D.
Summary: Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA D HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HARRIS HARClinch, Shasta
Summary: "An illustrated biography of Vice President Kamala Harris"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CLIGrimes, Nikki
Summary: "The first-ever picture book biography on Senator Kamala Harris"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARHarris, Eddy L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 HARHarris, Jacqueline L.
Summary: Describes the life, work, and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., proponent of change through non-violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1983
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Summary: In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper--a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland's most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years. Here he transports us to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Summary: The creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and other television game shows describes his career and shares a tongue-in-cheek glimpse of his personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HARMorrissey, Muriel Earhart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osborne Publisher 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 MORWeeks, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit News 1987
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 920 WEEBalius, Fernando
Summary: "A portrayal in graphic novel format of the author's battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to understand and cope with his illness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BALIUS, FERNANDO BALCiuraru, Carmela
Summary: A witty look at the complex and fascinating but tumultuous marriages of five well-known figures in the literary world, including British theater critic Kenneth Tynan, and authors Roald Dahl and Kingsley Amis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 NEHBarra, Allen.
Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARContents: Elizabeth T. Stone -- Catherine Beecher -- Phebe B. Davis -- Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard -- Sophie Olsen -- Tirzah F. Shedd -- Adriana P. Brinckle -- Adeline T.P. Lunt -- Ada Metcalf -- Lydia A. Smith -- Anna Agnew -- Lemira Clarissa Pennell -- Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Mrs. H.C. McMullen -- Alice Bingham Russell -- Kate Lee -- Margaret Starr -- Sally Willard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1994
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Summary: For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit — InsideOut Literary Arts Project — Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil —...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKUS, PETER MARPawel, Miriam
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of Governor Jerry Brown's family dynasty. When Governor Jerry Brown finishes his fourth term at the end of 2018, he will have bookended his career as both the youngest and the oldest governor of California. He and his father Pat Brown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PAWTodd, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.2 TODRyckman, Pamela
Summary: "Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and "wellness" took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERT, CANDACE RYCStephenson, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 STERucker, Darius
Summary: "Raised by a single mother in Charleston, South Carolina, Darius Rucker founded Hootie & the Blowfish with three classmates at the University of South Carolina in 1986. What began as a party band playing frat houses and dive bars quickly became a global rock pop phenomenon through their Diamond-certified debut album Cracked Rear View. ... Later, Darius would also chart a pioneering path as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow 2024
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Summary: "Pamela Anderson's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy's favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, PAMELA ANDBannos, Pamela
Summary: Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017