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Summary: "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILP, DREW PHIKang, Chol-hwan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 KANG, CHOL-HWAN KANContents: A farewell to arms / Vendela Vida -- A squeaky office chair / Jonathan Franzen -- Post-it notes / Will Self -- The Baths of Diocletian / Alan Hollinghurst -- Stövchen / Benjamin Markovits -- Jarry's spiral / Tom Robbins -- A Maglite / Janine Di Giovanni -- A cork wall / Eric Chase Anderson -- Kiehl's / JT Le Roy -- A large desk / Alain de Botton -- Ganesha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- A picture from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2007
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Summary: "A diary comic with an upbeat, adorable flair that tells the charming tale of Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition-as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now, Chii is about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRIChow, Kat
Summary: After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHOW, KAT CHORajchman, Chil.
Summary: One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the author tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka workers' revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 RAJCHMAN, CHIL RAJCrowe, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westview 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 CROCrowl, Thomas
Summary: "Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time,' according to Time Magazine. Born Elizabeth Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while continuing her work as a medium under the name...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Kent State University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 CROCrow, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.9515 CROElwood, Phil (Philip)
Summary: "A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media-from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back thecurtain. After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A collection of conversations, interviews, speeches, and book quotes that provide insight into the thinking of philosopher and writer Joseph Campbell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 CAMCron, Ian Morgan
Summary: An autobiography of Ian Morgan Cron, a clergyman in the Episcopal Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRON, IAN MORGAN CROCrowe, Chris.
Summary: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phyllis Fogelman Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 CRODoran, Phil
Summary: A television producer and writer recounts how he helped his wife restore a three-hundred-year-old Italian farmhouse and found unexpected renewal from the project, the region, and his eccentric new neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 DORGaimon, Phil.
Summary: "Abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Phil Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the goal of shedding a few pounds. By sheer accident, he discovered he was a natural, advancing so rapidly through the amateur ranks that he entered the pro peloton utterly ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He recounts the difficulties of making ends meet on a salary of $166 a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Velo Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAIMON, PHIL GAIHudgins, Phil
Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 HUDJackson, Phil.
Summary: The coach of the Chicago Bulls discusses his paradigm of leadership based on Eastern and Native American principles, and how he has applied it during his years with the NBA team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 JacksKeith, Phil
Summary: The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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Summary: "The dramatic, inspiring story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis, shore up the Resistance, and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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Summary: "Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 and the lasting impact of his death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speak 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CROGaimon, Phil
Summary: Like countless other kids, Phil Gaimon grew up dreaming of being a professional athlete. But unlike countless other kids, he actually pulled it off. After years of amateur races, hard training, living out of a suitcase, and never taking "no" for an answer, he finally achieved his goal and signed a contract to race professionally on one of the best teams in the world. Now, Gaimon pulls back the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAIMON, PHIL GAIRobertson, Phil
Summary: Shares the author's colorful and heartfelt views on life based on the love of God and love of one's neighbor, as well as how adopting those beliefs radically changed his way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 ROBCrow Dog, Leonard
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996