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Summary: Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PUTIN, VLADIMIR GESMacDowell, Marsha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Museum in collaboration with the Association of Michigan Basketmakers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.412 MACGessen, Masha.
Summary: Drawing on access to the band's members and their families and associates, recreates the feminist punk activists' fierce act of political confrontation in Moscow, which made national headlines as they were punished for their act of defiance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 GESRenehan, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSmarsh, Sarah
Summary: Explores how the music of Dolly Parton and other prominent women country artists has both reflected and validated the harsh realities of rural working-class American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SMACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PARTON SMALingan, John
Summary: "The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band's legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landscape of the late '60s and early '70s. From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 LINGessen, Masha
Summary: Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" by the Wall Street Journal, award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 GESStorm, Marysa
Summary: "Discover the Kansas City Chiefs' powerhouse players and biggest moments through exciting text and dynamic infographics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 STOCooper, Arshay
Summary: "Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team inthe nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.12 COOSmarsh, 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 SMACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMARSH SMAMarnham, Patrick.
Summary: Chronicles the life of Mexican artist Diego Rivera and discusses the artists who influenced him, his involvement in Communism, his family life, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIVERA, DIEGO MARMarnham, Patrick.
Summary: Relates the story of Jean Moulin, the enigmatic and mythic hero of the French Resistance, describing his early life, his career during the war, the betrayal that led to his capture by the Nazis, and his heroic death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5344 MARHornbacher, Marya
Summary: When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted, she did not yet know the reason for her all-but-shattered young life. At age 24, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is. Here, in her trademark wry, self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. She takes us inside her own desperate attempts to control violently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HORNBACHER, MARYA HORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind HornbacherMills, Marja.
Summary: "One journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, HARPER MILKarsh, 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 KARSkrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOPalmer, Marina
Summary: Approaching her dreaded thirtieth birthday--without a husband, a fabulous apartment, or children--Marina Palmer suddenly found herself adrift in anxiety. She was successful but bored. Lasting love was elusive and her visits to the therapist multiplied. Then, on a vacation to South America, she discovered the passion that her life was missing. Leaving behind her fast-track career and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.33 PALOttaviani, Jim
Summary: Introduces the lives and work of three eminent primatologists, sharing insights into their educations under mentor Louis Leakey while exploring their pivotal contributions to twentieth-century natural science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, First Second 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Enterprises 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 MARMarsh, Charles
Summary: A portrait of the German pastor-theologian draws on new research to cover the 1930 visit to America that shaped his perspectives on faith and moral responsibility, his achievements as an anti-Nazi activist, and the plot against Hitler that would result in his execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: "From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSH, HENRY MARMarsh, Henry
Summary: Traces the author's post-retirement work as a surgeon and teacher in such remote areas as Nepal and Ukraine, illuminating the challenges of working in difficult regions and finding purposeful work after a career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSH MARMarsh, Charles
Summary: A portrait of the German pastor-theologian draws on new research to cover the 1930 visit to America that shaped his perspectives on faith and moral responsibility, his achievements as an anti-Nazi activist, and the plot against Hitler that would result in his execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014