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Great Lakes booksJulien, Maude
Summary: "Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JULIEN, MAUDE JULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio JulienGreen, Julien
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, JULIEN GREMenéndez, Juliet
Summary: "In this board book adaptation of Latinitas, young readers meet inspiring women from all over Latin America and across the United States. With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Juliet Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MENNicolson, Juliet
Summary: "A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NICMenendez, Juliet
Summary: "A celebration of Latinas and Latin American women who followed their dreams, with portraits and short bios"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 MENMacur, Juliet.
Summary: Draws on interviews with more than one hundred people close to the famous athlete to chronicle fourteen critical years in his career, from his cancer recovery to his precipitous fall after revelations about his systemic doping became public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LANCE MACCastro, Julián
Summary: In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America. In many ways, there was no reason Julian Castro would have been expected to be a success. Born to unmarried parents in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of a struggling city, his prospects of escaping his circumstance seemed bleak. But he and his twin brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASTRO, JULIAN CASBuck, Joan Juliet
Summary: "From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCK, JOAN JULIET BUCErving, Julius
Summary: With startling honesty and an unmistakable voice, Dr. J is a historic self-portrait of an American legend, Julius "The Doctor" Erving. With his flights of improvisation around the basket and his towering afro, Julius Erving became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. But while the public has long revered this cultural icon, few have ever known of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERVING, JULIUS ERVLester, Julius.
Summary: The author introduces the concept of race as only one component in an individual's or nation's "story."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LESGuiet, Daniel (Daniel C.)
Summary: "The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUIRosas, Julio
Summary: "In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were only reading mainstream headlines, you probably have no idea just how bad it really was. As homes and businesses were being burned to the ground and livelihoods were being destroyed, corporate media engaged in a full-scale attempt to gaslight the American people, pushing Orwellian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DW Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult RosasDana, Juliette Starr
Contents: "Worth a Pilgrimage": July 15-July 20, New York State -- "The Mad Tumult": July 21-July 23, Niagara -- "Lost in the Distance": July 23-July 28, Lakes Erie and Huron, Detroit -- "A Fatiguing Scramble": July 28-July 31, Mackinac -- "Wild Looking Places": August 1-August 3, Sault Ste. Marie -- "Boundary of Civilization": August 4-August 15, Lake Superior -- "Very Rough": August 16-August 22, Lake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DANBarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending-a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POZZI, SAMUEL BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PozziEdelman, Julian
Summary: Bill Belichick: "Julian is the epitome of competitiveness, toughness, and the great things that are possible when someone is determined to achieve their goals." Tom Brady: "It's a privilege for me to play with someone as special as Julian." The Super Bowl champion wide receiver for the New England Patriots shares his inspiring story of an underdog kid who was always doubted to becoming one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELMAN, JULIAN EDEAguon, Julian
Summary: "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 AGUBarnes, Julian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARRandall, Julian
Summary: "The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather. Alternatively wry, lyrical, and heartfelt, Randall transforms pop culture moments into deeply personal explorations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 RubRosen, Richard A.
Summary: Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, JULIUS ROSNorwich, John Julius
Summary: "John Julius Norwich--who the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian"--has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early sixteenth century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a ten-year period: Francis I of France, the personification of the Renaissance, who became a highly influential patron of the arts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 NORGuthrie, Julian.
Summary: Details the partnership between Larry Ellison, billionaire CEO of Oracle Corrporation, and blue-collar mechanic Norbert Bajurin, offering a glimpse into their runs for the America's Cup and the design and building of these boats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 GUTJolie, Raechel Anne
Summary: "Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOLIE, RAECHEL ANNE JOLWitcover, Jules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1972