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Summary: Shares the author's travels with the late David Foster Wallace based on interviews from the 1996 "Infinite Jest" book tour, covering such topics as Wallace's literary process, struggles with fame, and battle with mental illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER LIPLipska, Barbara K.
Summary: "As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIPSKA, BARBARA K. LIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LIPSKA LIPMacy, Sue
Summary: Presents the story of the man who founded the National Yiddish Book Center, and describes the worldwide effort he currently leads to collect unwanted Yiddish books and save the Yiddish language from extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LANCoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SASFitzsimons, Eleanor
Summary: Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that "there should be no law for anybody," made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were central to his life and career: from his relationship with his extraordinary mother, Jane, and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death, to his accomplished wife, Constance, and a coterie of other free-thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR FITRoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROORoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 ROOLasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Ever since Williamina Fleming was little she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her life's work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from even looking through telescopes. Yet Mina believed that the universe, with its billions of stars, was a riddle--and she wanted to help solve it. Mina ultimately helped to create a map of the universe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FLEHerman, Eleanor
Summary: While Americans have a reputation for being strait-laced, many of the nation’s leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. John F. Kennedy swam nude with female staff in the White House swimming pool. Is it possible the qualities needed to run for president—narcissism, a thirst for power, a desire for importance—go hand in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.099 HERRoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 ROORoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: "Experience the timeless wit and wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years. In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her regular press conferences, her activism on behalf of women, minorities, and youth, her lecture tours,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 ROOCoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COEHerman, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945.634 HERKeaton, Eleanor
Summary: Known for his legendary stone face and physical gags, Buster Keaton was a genius of silent-film comedy. Decades after their release, his movies remain unsurpassed marvels of comic invention and mechanical timing. In Buster Keaton remembered, an illustrated survey of Keaton's career, Eleanor Keaton, his wife of 26 years, and film historian Jeffrey Vance provide a personal account of this icon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 KEARoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: Activist, diplomat, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt recounts her life story in this autobiography that combines elements from her original three-volume work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR ROOHarris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARCrewes, Eleanor
Summary: A London-based illustrator, author and graphic artist illustrates her coming-of-age story as a gay woman including feeling a deep sense of not belonging, self-denial, awkward encounters, everyday courage and her first girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 CRERoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOClift, Eleanor.
Summary: Historical overview examining the 72 year struggle to secure women's right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.62 CLICoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SASDavis, Eleanor
Summary: "In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis' comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transporation"--Koyama Press web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koyama Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAVDwight, Eleanor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VREELAND, DIANA DwightHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichés of fleeting young love, their summer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDERSON, ELEANOR HENWotkyns, Eleanor R. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scrapbook Press 2004