Bono, Chaz.
Summary: Transition is a deeply personal, honest, and ultimately triumphant story. It tells of the physical and emotional process that brought him to come out to the world for a second time and finally claim his life as the one he always wanted--as a man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONO, CHAZ BONFitzpatrick, Jeanne.
Summary: "Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.029 FITHoliday, Billie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLIDAY, BILLIE HOLFitzpatrick, Insha
Summary: From refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger to sparking civil rights protests across America, explore how Rosa Parks's powerful act earned her the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement." A story of resistance, strength, and unwavering spirit, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the American Civil Rights leader -- brought to life by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARFitzpatrick, Insha
Summary: "Follow the terrifying events of the 1692 Salem witch trials from the perspective of Tituba, an enslaved woman who was accused of bewitching two girls, Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams, during this harrowing, historic period. A story of speculation, mass hysteria, and survival, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into this haunting moment in American history - brought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TITWalden, Tillie
Summary: Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good....
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 WALEilish, Billie
Summary: The legendary recording artist shares an inside look at her life--both on and off the stage--through hundreds of never-before-seen photos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EILISH, BILLIE EILOlsen, Tillie.
Summary: A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Nebraska Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 OLSGillies, Isabel.
Summary: A Year and Six Seconds is the true story of New York Times bestselling memoirist Isabel Gillies's valiant yet bumbling efforts to pick herself up after her husband leaves her for another woman--and of how she stumbles upon true love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 792.028 GILLIES, ISABEL GilBingham, Sallie
Summary: A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. "Don't touch that girl, she'll burn your fingers," FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUKE, DORIS BINAbdul-Qaadir, Bilqis
Summary: "A powerful and inspiring true story about Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, a young Muslim-American woman who, at the top of her basketball career, must make a choice between wearing her hijab and playing the sport."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ABDWyllie, James
Summary: "Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann-names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men-complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 WYLBelli, Gioconda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 BELManassah, Sallie M. (Sallie Mossman)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Image Adv., Ltd. 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.427 MANFitzpatrick, Doyle C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Heritage 1970
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 FITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 STR1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 STR
Rubenhold, Hallie
Summary: The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 RUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 RUBKing, Billie Jean
Summary: "In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, andher watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, BILLIE JEAN KINHillier, George
Summary: "Hillier shares experiences that influenced his life using short stories, poetry, and characterizations to give glimpses into the wide spectrum of human emotions that we all share."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HILLIER, GEORGE HILWilkie, Curtis
Summary: "The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WILMoran, Mollie
Summary: "True story of a feisty and fun-loving young English girl's adventures while in domestic service in the 1930's as a scullery maid, then kitchen maid and cook. Includes recipes and household cleaning tips"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORAN, MOLLIE MORGillies, Andrea.
Summary: 'Keeper' is a very humane and honest exploration of living with Alzheimer's, giving an illuminating account of the disease itself. Gillies tells about the time she and her family spent living with someone with dementia, in a big Victorian house in the far, far north of Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 GILWilkie, Vanessa
Summary: Born in 1559, Alice Spencer's family had made a small fortune in sheep farming and purchased a distinguished manor house called Althorp. With her sizable dowry, she married the heir to one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the country, becoming the Countess of Derby. Her husband's sudden death after he turned in a group of Catholics for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERBY, ALICE EGERTON WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SPENCER WILNelson, Willie
Summary: "Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who for 70 years acted as Willie's drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in crime, and right-hand man. Together, the two men roamed the country, putting on shows, getting into a few scrapes, raising money for good causes, and bringing the joy of their music to fans worldwide. Stories of Willie and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NELParker, Willie
Summary: An outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider--one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama--pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria 2017