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She persistedEyre, Makana
Summary: Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, this powerful story recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewicz after an unlikely friendship with a Jewish conductor in Sachsenhausen who tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KULISIEWICZ, ALEKSANDER TYTUS EYRAkana, Anna
Summary: "From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin to heal was comedy. So she began making YouTube videos as a form of creative expression and as a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AKANA, ANNA AKAEmme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 EMMChhaya, Mayank.
Contents: Introduction -- Continental cataclysm -- Buddhism comes to Tibet -- Clucking like a hen and breaking up fights -- From a prankster to the Dalai Lama reincarnate -- Farewell to the worldly world -- Lhasa in turmoil -- Tibet's new ruler is not all of five years old? -- India, China, and Tibet -- Suggestions of fratricide -- New gods in Tibet -- Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India -- Mao, Buddhism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DALAI LAMA XIV CHHErnman, Malena
Summary: "When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ERNYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 YOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 YOUArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARABurke, Tarana
Summary: "From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: "An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GHARIB, MALAKA GHAYousafzai, Malala
Summary: Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUPalmer, Marina
Summary: Approaching her dreaded thirtieth birthday--without a husband, a fabulous apartment, or children--Marina Palmer suddenly found herself adrift in anxiety. She was successful but bored. Lasting love was elusive and her visits to the therapist multiplied. Then, on a vacation to South America, she discovered the passion that her life was missing. Leaving behind her fast-track career and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.33 PALYousafzai, Malala
Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.822 YOUYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.822 YOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOUSAFZAI, MALALA YOU1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 YOU
Maran, Meredith
Summary: A lusty, kickass post-divorce memoir, one woman's story of starting over at 60 in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood. After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life s savings, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage, Meredith Maran whom Anne Lamott calls insightful, funny, and human leaves her San Francisco freelance writer's life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARAN, MEREDITH MARMahama, John Dramani
Summary: Set against a backdrop of post-colonial Africa, the vice president of Ghana recounts how he became involved in the nation's political turmoil when his minister-of-state father disappeared during a coup and was imprisoned for over a year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.705 MAHAMA, JOHN DRAMANI MAHSaeed, Aisha
Summary: "A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUEire, Carlos M. N.
Summary: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 EIRWyld, Evie.
Summary: The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WYLEade, Philip
Summary: "On the fiftieth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted--and fascinating--writers of our time Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as "the greatest novelist of my generation," and in recent years Waugh's reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after Waugh's death in 1966, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAUGH, EVELYN EADEade, Philip.
Summary: Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE CONSORT EADELongman, Jere.
Summary: The story of the U.S. women's soccer team and their rise from a virtually unnoticed group of young women athletes to the champions of the 1999 Women's World Cup includes profiles of top players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 LONSchein, Elyse
Summary: Elyse had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties that she searched for her biological mother. She was not prepared for the life-changing news: she had an identical twin sister. Not only that: she and her sister, for a time, had been part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother. When she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8750 SCHMcCann, Lyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1972
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.465 MCC1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.465 MCC
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.465 MCCRobillard, Evie
Summary: "Poems, paintings and Paris all come to life in this enchanting picture book biography of Gertrude Stein. This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020