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Contents: Ring of bright water -- The rocks remain -- Raven seek thy brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.4 MAXMarwell, David George
Summary: "A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate. One of the most notorious war criminals of all time, Dr. Josef Mengele has come to symbolize both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice in the postwar world. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, historian David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MENGELE, JOSEF MARLavin, Talia
Summary: The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 LAVRavin, Idan.
Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAVIN, IDAN RAVEdwards, Gavin
Summary: For more than thirty years, Fred Rogers was a beloved fixture in American homes. Warm and welcoming, he spoke directly to children--and their parents--about the marvels of the world, the things that worried them, and above all, the importance of being themselves. Dressed in his cardigan and sneakers, Fred Rogers offered a wholesome message of generosity and love that changed the landscape of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROGERS, FRED EDWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROGERS EDWEdwards, Gavin
Summary: Looking back at the history of the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood television show and the creative visionary behind it, Edwards reminds us of the indelible lessons and insights that they conveyed and why they matter. With dozens of interviews of people whose lives were touched by Fred Rogers, this book is a love letter to this unforgettable cultural hero and role model and to the beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 ROGERS, FREDManvell, Roger
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MANGavin, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAKER, CHET GAVGrimm, Gavin
Summary: When you're a kid like Gavin Grimm, you know yourself best. And Gavin knew that he was a boy -- even if others saw him as a girl. But when his school took away his right to something as simple as using the boys' restroom, Gavin knew he had a big decision to make. Because there are always more choices than the ones others give you. Gavin chose to correct others when they got his pronouns wrong....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GRIMachell, Ben
Summary: "The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood: a British college student who started robbing banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis. When the global financial crisis of 2007 hit, British college student Stephen Jackley decided to become abank robber, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Against all likelihood, his plan actually worked. Jackley used disguises, elaborate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKLEY, STEPHEN MACMarnell, Cat
Summary: "From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARNELL, CAT MAREdwards, Gavin
Summary: Samuel L. Jackson's embodiment of cool isn't just inspirational--it's important. Bad Motherfucker lays out how his attitude intersects with his identity as a Black man, why being cool matters in the modern world, and how Jackson can guide us through the current cultural moment in which everyone is losing their cool. Edwards details Jackson's fascinating personal history, from stuttering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, SAMUEL L. EDWGavin, James
Summary: "Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michael's metamorphosis from the shy and awkward Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou into the swaggering, dominant half of the leading British pop duo of the 1980s Wham!; he then details Michael's sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling. With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michael's albums, tours, and music videos, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHAEL, GEORGE GAVFarwell, Matt
Summary: "The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERGDAHL, BOWE FARKing, Maxwell
Summary: Maxwell King delivers the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, telling the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, he traces Rogers's personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ROGERS, FRED KINMaxwell, William
Contents: Bright center of heaven -- They came like swallows -- Stories 1938-1945: Homecoming ; Actual thing ; Young Francis Whitehead ; Haller's second home ; Patterns of love -- Folded leaf -- Time will darken it -- Stories 1952-1956: Trojan women ; Pilgrimage ; What every boy should know ; French scarecrow -- Writer as illusionist -- Appendix: Introduction to They came like swallows ; Preface to Time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXGaren, Micah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GREKatin, Miriam
Summary: "A stunning memoir of a mother and daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith. In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching, Katin and her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KATKazin, Michael
Summary: "A history of the Democratic Party from Andrew Jackson to Joe Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2736 KAZMandell, Judy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MANKing, Maxwell (Maxwell Evarts Perkins)
Summary: "Every weekday for decades, a kind man named Mister Rogers stepped through a door in his TV house, spoke directly into the camera while he changed from street clothes into a cardigan and sneakers, and sang, "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Offering unconditional love, this soft-spoken icon was a household name for tens of millions of children, as well as their parents who grew up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 ROGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROGERS, FRED KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROGERS KINDalin, David G.
Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DALKazin, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 KAZLadin, Joy
Contents: Introduction: shipwrecked with God -- The genesis of gender -- Trans experience in the Torah -- Close encounters with an incomprehensible God -- Reading between the binaries -- Knowing the soul of the stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brandeis University Press 2019