Hanc, 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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Summary: The author of Away with Words embarks on a grand cheese adventure around the world, in this hilarious and insightful deep-dive into the cultural and culinary phenomenon of cheese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: McKay 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOHack, 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 HACStuever, 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 STUBerkowitz, Aaron
Summary: "In the tradition of Tracy Kidder's portrait of Paul Farmer's work in MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, the story of a young neurologist's struggles over who and how to help patients in Haiti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERKOWITZ, AARON BERWoerden, 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 WOEHand, Cynthia
Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Poster in pocket inside back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton 1999
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Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 SNEDark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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Summary: The Buzzfeed senior editor reflects on the highs and lows of the millennial experience, sharing such stories as escaping a bear attack and her battle with cancer at nineteen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHADenk, Jeremy
Summary: "In this searching and funny memoir, based off his popular New Yorker article, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. Life is difficult enough as a precocious, temperamental, and insufferable six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey.But then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico, far from classical music's nerve centers, and he has to please a new taskmaster while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: A discussion of John Cage's "4'33"," a mid-twentieth-century musical work composed entirely of silence, providing a cultural context for the piece, and examining the musical, philosophical, and environmental factors that influenced Cage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.18 GANHaff, Stephen
Summary: Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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Summary: Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SNEHorowitz, David
Summary: Part memoir, part philosophical reflection, Horowitz focuses on man's search for meaning, and how for those without religious belief, the search often leads to a faith in historical progress, which is bound to disappoint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 HORKeilson, Hans
Summary: "An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. His devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him in trouble. In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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Summary: In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America's late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the "paleo-con" right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFink, Jesse
Summary: "Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest anti-narcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAVIA, LUIS FINStiefel, Chana
Summary: "The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: Party of One shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023