Hogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGGladysz, Margean.
Summary: An adventuresome eighteen-year-old college grad with fresh eyes hires on with the Greyhound Bus line in 1946 and becomes a company spy. The match is perfect as Margean Worst leaves the farm for a life on the road, inspecting bus drivers on the routes, first in the Great Lakes region and then all over the country. Margean poses as a passenger and notes drivers' honesty, road conditions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLADYSZ, MARGEAN GLABarger, Ralph.
Summary: An autobiography in which Ralph "Sonny" Barger discusses his experiences as a longtime member of the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2000
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Summary: "Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURKarger, Dave
Summary: "Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 KARMagary, Drew
Summary: The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny comeback story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGARY, DREW MAGCurlee, Lynn
Summary: Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon--Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry, celebrity, and notoriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Teen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 NIJKugler, Rob
Summary: "Rob Kugler's A Dog Named Beautiful is an uplifting and unforgettable story of a US Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime."--Provided by publisher. US Marine Rob Kugler not only gave a year of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting. Lost in grief, Rob found solace and relief in the one thing that never failed to put a smile on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUGTayler, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.7 TAYCutler, Laurence S.
Summary: "J. C. Leyendecker captured lifestyles with superior technical skills, with an imaginative use of subject, and with an originality that many have sought to imitate. Dubbed the "Master of the Magazine Cover" by Norman Rockwell - who modeled both his technique and his career on his mentor - Leyendecker created illustrations that graced the covers of all the leading magazines, including Collier's,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.6 LEYENDECKER, J.C., CUTHuler, Scott.
Contents: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.518 HULConrad, Vicki
Summary: "The Florida Everglades are made up of nine different ecosystems supporting an astonishing variety of wildlife-panthers, manatees, snails, frogs, and a rainbow of bird species. But for years, the Everglades were threatened. They needed a voice to speak up for them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas became that voice. Her book "A River of Grass" helped the world see the irreplaceable beauty and value of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUCullen, Kevin
Summary: This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger -- a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BULDias, Marley (Marley Emerson)
Summary: The young organizer of the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign explores the power of activism, drawing on her personal experiences to counsel readers on how they can work together to make positive changes in their communities in the areas of literacy and diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DIAAndros, Camille
Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMILTON ANDCullen, David
Summary: Offers an account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of Parkland who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders, inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.7 CULMurphy, Cullen
Summary: A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt," explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, JOHN CULLEN MURFuller, Alexandra
Summary: "From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FULLER FULFuller, Richard
Summary: Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world’s most prevalent health risk. And yet, while most everyone has heard about “going green,” few are aware of the more dire and sinister “brown” pollution—places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 FULFuller, Alexandra
Summary: Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, ALEXANDRA FULSchopieray, Julie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Julie Schopieray 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SCH1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.46 SCH
Muller, Melissa
Summary: Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER, ALICE MULMuller, Melissa
Summary: Presenting revelations, this book returns Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalised and so all the more affecting. It offers an understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2013