Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon
Summary: Chronicles the sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa--one of the most renowned women rulers in history--and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "In a beautifully written, science-packed debut memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares her personal story of resilience and liberation by grounding herself in her lifelong love of the stars. As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance spent nearly every evening with her father gazing up at the flickering stars and pondering what secrets the night sky held. She dreamt of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NANCE, SARAFINA EL-BADRY NANScott, Janny
Summary: "Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT, ROBERT MONTGOMERY SCODanby, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2008
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Summary: Award-winning reporter Scott uncovers the full breadth of Stanley Ann Dunham's inspiring and untraditional life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUNHAM, S. ANN SCOSpelling, Candy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2014
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Summary: "A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of culinary legend Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and figuring out who you are"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: "In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue shipfinally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turtle Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLABateson, Mary Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1994
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 318.5 BATParrado, Nando
Summary: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival ParradoNance, Malcolm W
Summary: "When former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was assigned to the Special Counsel investigation looking into the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, many Americans felt relieved. But when the report was delivered in April 2019, it was clear that the case was far from closed--and pinning Trump down on conspiracy charges was going to be a lot more difficult than it had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 NANCarson, Candy
Summary: "Like most Americans, you might think of Ben Carson as a trailblazing brain surgeon and, in the last few years, as an outspoken commentator on national issues. But his wife of more than forty years knows him as so much more: a loving husband, a devoted father, a devout Christian, a committed philanthropist, and a fierce patriot. Now Candy Carson introduces us to the private side of a very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CARYancey, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Servant Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 YANYancey, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ YanceyLaney, Lewis
Summary: A fun and fascinating compendium of LGBTQ+ icons, one for every day of the year, and a celebration of queer history - or as RuPaul would say; Herstory! Discover your queer hero and learn something new every day with 365 Gays of the Year, an accessible and fun introduction to LGBTQ+ history through the people that made it. Carefully curated and thoughtfully researched, author Lewis Laney assigns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Lion Publishing 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 LANKelly, Fanny
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Publisher / Publication Date: Konecky & Konecky 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 KELHanc, John.
Contents: The boy who walked to the zoo and ran to the ends of the earth -- The last race on earth -- Baby, we were born to run...but in Antarctica? -- All feet on deck -- Going south -- English lessons, Russian rules -- The Drake Lake effect -- The madness of King George Island -- At a glacial pace -- Bicycle-riding grandmas of the Antarctic -- Southern discomfort, northern exposure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 HANArmstrong, Lance.
Summary: Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer-survivor Lance Armstrong offers a first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season, during which he helped promote a global cancer-awareness campaign, in a book with behind-the-scenes photos and stunning four-color shots of racing action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.62 ArmstrongGaechter, Darcy.
Summary: Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Amazon Woman shows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life they've imagined. This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaetcher's 35th birthday. She sold her successful outdoor adventure business, upsetting her partner and boyfriend of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Summary: Tiny Broadwick, a teeny, uneducated mill girl, had big dreams of soaring above the earth, out of poverty, and above expectations. She became the first woman to parachute from an airplane, and her idea for the rip cord paved the way for pilots to safely escape in-flight emergencies. This thrilling biography shows how Tiny's determination, courage, adventurousness, and joy lifted her up to stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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Summary: A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOSEPH, Chief MoultonSummary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: Argues that FBI Director James Comey's fateful letter to Congress, sent in the crucial days leading up to the presidential election, was the ultimate factor in shifting the election to a Trump victory, revealing how the letter violated long-standing Justice Department policies. "During the week of October 24, 2016, Hillary Clinton was decisively ahead of Donald Trump in most polls. Then FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982