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Summary: An award-winning investigative journalist presents an account of the life and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, featuring interviews with his accusers and evidence of his deceptions amongst the Republican Party's drive toward the far right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 CALHolmes, Jamie
Summary: "The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II--and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.4 HOLJames, Jamie.
Summary: Traces the life and death of Joe Slowinski, a renowned herpetologist who had been a foremost expert on Asia's venomous snakes, in a profile that documents his work and the final hours of his life after he had been bitten by a krait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 JAMCarles, Emilie
Summary: Translation of: Une soupe aux herbes sauvages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.97 CARDavis, Camas
Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAVEames, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 EAMSherman, Jake S.
Summary: "The startling inside story of Donald Trump's first two years, viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the strategy and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 SHERobinson, Jackie
Summary: An anthology of Jackie Robinson's columns in the New York Post and the New York Amsterdam News newspapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, JACKIE ROBLeckie, Robert.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.548 LECCalley, William Laws
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 SACAlnes, Jacqueline
Summary: "Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALNES, JACQUELINE ALNCalder-Marshall, Arthur
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 FLAColes, Robert.
Summary: "...Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership -- what it is, and how it is achieved -- through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others...."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 COLJones, Rickie Lee
Summary: "A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, RICKIE LEE JONColes, Robert.
Summary: Capturing the courage of a little girl facing racism and hatred alone, the true story of Ruby Bridges reveals how she helped shape American history as the first African American child sent to first grade in a white school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BRIDGES COLHales, Dianne R.
Summary: "A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HALBalmer, Randall Herbert
Summary: Discusses how the progressive principles of a born-again Evangelical Christian peanut farmer, which included racial justice, women's rights and concern for the plight of the poor, won the presidency in 1976.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY BALTodd, Traci N.
Summary: "When Jackie Ormes sees an opportunity, she takes it. She's a journalist, cartoonist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist -- and she wants to use her artistry to bring joy and hope to Black people everywhere. But in post-World War II America, Black people are still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie has a dilemma: How can her art remain true to her signature Jackie joy, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ORMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 ORMGayle, Caleb
Summary: "A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.004 GAYMagyar, Caleb
Summary: Offers brief profiles of over one hundred male leaders, legends, scientists, and artists who shaped history, including King Kamehameha, B.B. King, and Isaac Newton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.71 MAGHarris, Duchess
Summary: "In 1947, black baseball player Jackie Robinson broke through Major League Baseball's color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Robinson himself, his wife, Rachel, and broadcaster Red Barber. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.357092 HARFales-Hill, Susan.
Summary: The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 FALBurke, Jackie C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howell Book House 1997