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North American Indians of achievementCameron, Julia
Summary: "Julia Cameron returns to the spiritual roots of The Artist's Way in this 6-week program. Author Julia Cameron changed the way the world thinks about creativity when she first published The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity thirty yearsago. Over five million copies later, Cameron now turns her attention to creative prayer, which she believes is a key facet of the creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 CAMRosas, Julio
Summary: "In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were only reading mainstream headlines, you probably have no idea just how bad it really was. As homes and businesses were being burned to the ground and livelihoods were being destroyed, corporate media engaged in a full-scale attempt to gaslight the American people, pushing Orwellian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DW Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult RosasArce, Julissa
Summary: "Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 ARCBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuParker, Jameson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 PARGulian, Jared
Summary: "For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and moving to the capital of New Zealand was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove out in the middle of nowhere, it was almost too much. To get there they'd have to drive over a dangerous mountain road - and Jared was terified of heights. And them they'd have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Pony 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.92 GULJulien, Maude
Summary: "Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JULIEN, MAUDE JULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio JulienLavin, Talia
Summary: The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 LAVCastro, Julián
Summary: In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America. In many ways, there was no reason Julian Castro would have been expected to be a success. Born to unmarried parents in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of a struggling city, his prospects of escaping his circumstance seemed bleak. But he and his twin brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASTRO, JULIAN CASMendel, Iuliia
Summary: "In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MENGreen, Julien
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, JULIEN GREJuska, Jane.
Summary: A sixtysomething schoolteacher describes how, tired of celibacy, she placed an ad in the personals section of "The New York Review of Books" and embarked on a series of sexual and romantic adventures with the men she met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 JUSBarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending-a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POZZI, SAMUEL BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PozziEdelman, Julian
Summary: Bill Belichick: "Julian is the epitome of competitiveness, toughness, and the great things that are possible when someone is determined to achieve their goals." Tom Brady: "It's a privilege for me to play with someone as special as Julian." The Super Bowl champion wide receiver for the New England Patriots shares his inspiring story of an underdog kid who was always doubted to becoming one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELMAN, JULIAN EDEBarbassa, Juliana
Summary: Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes: from Carnaval's hedonistic delights, to the poverty of the favelas, to the softly seductive samba beat. But there's a dark side to this beautiful city: for years, Rio was ravaged by inflation, drug wars, and crooked leaders, and the legacy of decades of corruption can be seen in the very real struggles the city faces today. Now, Rio is ready to remake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981 BARWilson, Jamia
Summary: "Join us on a journey across borders, through time and even through space to meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in a celebration of achievement. Meet figureheads, leaders, and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and sporting heroes, including Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams. Discover how their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILWilson, Jamia
Summary: Young, Gifted and Black Too celebrates the lives of 52 more leaders, heroes, sportspeople, and artists of color from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILCameron, Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 285.23 CAMDouglas, Cameron
Summary: Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, CAMERON DOUAguon, Julian
Summary: "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 AGUBarnes, Julian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARRandall, Julian
Summary: "The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather. Alternatively wry, lyrical, and heartfelt, Randall transforms pop culture moments into deeply personal explorations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PONTIAC BLABaird, Julia (Julia Woodlands)
Summary: A magnificent biography of Queen Victoria by International New York Times columnist Julia Baird. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, 'Victoria: The Queen' is a stunning new portrait of the real woman behind the myth - a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016