Smarsh, Sarah

Summary: During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMARSH, SARAH SMA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMARSH SMA

Hernández, Daisy

Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 HER

Hernández, José M.

Summary: In this bilingual picture book, astronaut Jose M. Hernandez recounts his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant workers and his life-long dream to travel to the stars.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J 921 SPANISH HER

Saran, Suvir.

Summary: The author, born and raised in India and an acclaimed New York City restaurateur and chef, tells the story of moving to the country to raise goats, alpacas, ducks, geese, and chicken on 67 acres. Accompanied by more than 80 recipes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59747 SAR

Habib, Samaa.

Summary: "The thrilling and heart-wrenching true story of a former Muslim woman's journey to heaven and back when she was victim of a terrorist bombing"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel Habib

Samaha, Albert

Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SAM

Sardy, Marin

Summary: Shares highly informed meditations into how the author's childhood in Anchorage, her literary career, and the lives of beloved family members have been impacted by hereditary schizophrenia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SARDY, MARIN SAR

Ahmedi, Farah.

Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHM

Farah, Douglas.

Summary: What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global...

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.133 FAR

Salak, Kira

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 SAL

Sarna, Igal

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.4 SAR

Shah, Saira.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SHA

Karsh, Yousuf

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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine, Publisher 2009

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 KAR

Sabar, Ariel

Summary: "In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 229 SAB

Sahai, Supriya

Summary: "This brand-new series highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science. Did you know that the technology behind cell phones was based on an idea developed during World War II by the Hollywood star Heddy Lamar to prevent the enemy intercepting radio messages? The computer and other electronic devices have changed life dramatically over the last 70 years-and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SAH

Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez

Summary: "With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASTILLO, MARCELO HERNANDEZ CAS

Sadat, Anwar

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAD

Baram, Marcus

Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL BAR

Mir, Saira

Summary: Introduces nineteen Muslim women from all around the world who have found their callings in a vast range of fields, from social justice to competitive sports to the entertainment industry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MIR

Sarah

Summary: "In My Story, The Duchess of York writes about what it was like to be a member of the most famous and most scrutinized family in the world: Britain's Royal Family. In a voice that is warm, strong, and always rueful, she tells of the events that catapulted "a country girl" into a fairy-tale existence, and about the dark forces - within both the Palace and herself - that made it impossible to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YORK, SARAH York

Brierley, Saroo

Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRIERLEY BRI

Brierley, Saroo

Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--

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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 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRI