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Summary: "Imagine denying your core and soul. Then add to it the most impossible expectations that people have for you because you are the personification of The American Male Athlete." Bruce Jenner, the celebrated Olympic icon and later the patriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, seemed to be living a dream life of success, fame, and prosperity. But the all-American image and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENNER, CAITLYN JENKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUTCulmo, Kaitlin
Summary: "There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as it has been written. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.409 CULDonohue, Caitlin
Summary: "Each of the forty women profiled in this illustrated YA book demonstrates how women are capable of political and community leadership and activism. Readers will be inspired to pursue their own goals of social change."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 DONKrakel, Dean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.875 KRAMyer, Caitlin
Summary: "A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has leftbehind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pubilshing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYER, CAITLIN MYEDoughty, Caitlin.
Summary: The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 DOUMoran, Caitlin
Summary: Piecing together common-sense observations with scenes from her own life, the author sheds new light on feminism, discussing the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues for both women and society itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 MORKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotaa, Columbia, young Josae eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Josae Alberto Gutiaerrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiaerrez's life and Bogotaa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KUNTurkel, Nury
Summary: Laying bare China's repression of the Uyghur people, the former president of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, drawing on his own personal story, exposes the historic injustice behind the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURKEL, NURY TURKunes, Ellen.
Summary: The world's most respected weight-loss experts have revealed that certain carb-rich foods-- especially those with an amazing ingredient known as resistant starch-- will suppress your appetite, improve your mood, and make you thin for life!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 CARFinkel, David
Summary: "Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.86 FINFinkel, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 FinkeCurtice, Kaitlin B.
Summary: "Native is about identity, soul-searching, and the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice offers a unique perspective on these topics. In this book, she shows how reconnecting with her Potawatomi identity both informs and challenges her faith. Curtice draws on her personal journey, poetry, imagery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.308 CURFinkel, David
Summary: In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down," The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 FINFinkel, Michael
Summary: "For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER FINFinkel, Michael.
Summary: Follows the experiences of a journalist who, after fabricating part of a story and losing his job, was mistaken for a murderer and fled to Cancun, where he lived under an assumed identity and forged a complex relationship with the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FINKuskey, G. Eric
Summary: The unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described "Painter of light", and the dramatic rise and fall of his billion-dollar art empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KINKADE, THOMAS KUSMcAneney, Caitie
Summary: Team Time Machine has another adventure on their hands. They're riding with Paul Revere! Revere famously alerted colonists to approaching British forces at the start of the Revolutionary War. Readers will follow the kids of Team Time Machine and Paul Revere as they ride from Boston to Lexington to save the day. Historical artwork paired with fun facts and an exciting narrative give readers an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 MCAMcAneney, Caitie
Summary: Jamestown is celebrated as the first permanent English settlement in North America, but underneath the well-known history is a darker past. In its beginning years, Jamestown was far from successful. In fact, most colonists who came to Jamestown never left; they died shortly after arriving. This fascinating book delves into the challenges of the colony, revealing its successes, tragedies, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5 MCACarlin, John.
Summary: In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for 23 years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.333 CARFinkel, David
Summary: In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down," The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2009