Viloria, Hida
Summary: "From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILORIA, HIDA VILKotb, Hoda
Summary: Shares the inspirational stories of six individuals who persevered in the face of devastating life challenges, from a woman who became a health advocate after losing 340 pounds to a civilian hero who saved a burn victim on September 11th only to discoverthat two family members had died in the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.24 KOTFried, Hedi
Summary: Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble, an imprint of Scribe Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 FRIFahmy, Huda
Summary: "Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda Fahmy tells the hilarious story of how she met and married her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FAHSchubert, Leda
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while missing his home and family. Includes note about the author's grandfather, who inspired the story, and his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuKotb, Hoda
Summary: She's just like the rest of us. But she's something different, too. Hoda Kotb grew up in two cultures--one where summers meant playing at the foot of the ancient pyramids and another where she had to meet her junior prom date at the local 7-Eleven to spare them both the wrath of her conservative Egyptian parents. She's traveled the globe for network television, smuggling videotapes in her shoes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOTB, HODA KOTTamimi, Ahed
Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAMWallmark, Laurie
Summary: Shares the life of the actress and inventor, detailing how she developed a groundbreaking communications system that still remains essential to the security of today's technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LAMGeha, Joseph
Summary: "Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio's Little Syria neighborhood where I grew up, the first place you'd go to find your mother would be the kitchen. There, my mom took special pride in the traditional Syro-Lebanese food she cooked. Kitchen Arabic is a compilation both of her recipes and of the family stories that came with them. It is as much a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GEHSchneider, Helga.
Summary: "Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8743 SCHAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDHelm, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ATKINS, VERA HelLerner, Gerda
Summary: "A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 LERSaunders, Gerda
Summary: Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Summary: The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda’s Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees’ play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew’s CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDGorani, Hala
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Summary: "Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 VALCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 VALHess, Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HESWeiss, Helga
Summary: Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 WEIHegar, Mary Jennings
Summary: "On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve. . . ,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEGAR, MARY JENNINGS HEGHubbard, Bela
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 1983
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 PETFields-Black, Edda L.
Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024