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Asperger's syndrome Patients Biography Asperger's syndrome Popular works Authors, American 20th century Biography Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Electrical engineers Inventors Mississippi Social life and customs Pope Francis 1936- United States Welty, Eudora 1909-2001 Childhood and youthFitch, Noel Riley.
Summary: Describes the life and career of the French chef and television personality, from her wealthy childhood in California and married years in France to her successful cooking show in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHILD, JULIA FITLindwer, Willy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE LINDuraffourg, Willy
Summary: "This graphic novel explores the youth of the author of The Lord of the Rings, and his traumatic experience of the battlefields of the First World War, which will forge the imagination of his literary work" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. DURWells, Gully.
Summary: "Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher--and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything. Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London's liberated intellectual inner circle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.0421 WELLS, DEE & AYER, A.J. WELReese, Willy Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 REESE, Willy REEWilley, David
Summary: A BBC correspondent and an expert on the Vatican describes Pope Francis' first two years as pope and speculates what the future might hold for the unique man selected to head the Roman Catholic Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FRANCIS, POPE WilWilley, Liane Holliday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind WilleySingh, Lilly
Summary: "An honest, funny, and inspiring primer on learning to "come home" to your truest and happiest self from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Bawse. With the signature blend of vulnerability, wisdom, and humor that has endeared her to millions of fans, Lilly Singh offers a fresh take on how to feel fulfilled and find happiness in the face of life's challenges. Everyone knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SINMurray, Lilly.
Summary: A celebration of 50 famous people from around the world who made history and changed the world for the better, with art from award-winning artist Ana Albero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MURWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE WILPelly, Jenn
Summary: The Raincoats were not the most famous band of late 70s London punk, nor were they the most critically acclaimed. But the peculiar charms of this pioneering feminist punk band helped bolster the iconic Rough Trade label at its radical beginnings. The brilliantly anti-commercial Raincoats is one of our earliest documents of D.I.Y. as an aesthetic-timeless spiritual music for Riot Grrrls, indie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 PELWeddon, Willah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NOG Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 920 WEDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 977.4 WEDDe Milly, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1536 DEMDully, Howard
Summary: At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody, messy, rambunctious, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital--or ice pick--lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULLY, HOWARD DULWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7 WILWills, Shomari
Summary: "The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILFrith, Uta
Summary: "Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 FRIWills, Charles.
Summary: Annie Oakley first picked up a gun at age eight and by age 22 was performing sharpshooting acts. She went on to travel the world and became America's first female superstar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OAKWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JEFWilley, Liane Holliday.
Summary: The author, who has Asperger's syndrome, presents practical advice on staying safe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2012
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Summary: Biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, written as a child's school report.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine FrithFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An illustrated biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that provides information on his childhood in Hyde Park, marriage to Eleanor, political career, years as president, and influence on American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOWelty, Eudora
Summary: With a new introduction, this updated edition of the award-winning and best-selling author's classic book of guidance for aspiring writers is part memoir, offering a vivid glimpse into life in early 1900s Mississippi, and part an exploration of cultivating creativity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELTY, EUDORA WELWelty, Eudora
Summary: "Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WEL1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL