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Summary: "A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put,holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MCKAston, Felicity
Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 ASTFelicien, Perdita
Summary: "A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Perdita Felicien's story is woven into her mother's like an intricate braid. To understand Perdita's story, you must know Catherine's. Catherine is larger than life. At seventeen years old, she is determined and tenacious, and longing to experience a better life. But she is also pregnant with her second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Canada 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FELMcLean, Jack
Summary: Nothing could have prepared privileged-boy Jack McLean for the horror of Landing Zone Loon--a three-day battle that took place on a remote hill tucked into the border of North Vietnam and Laos in June 1968, killing twenty-seven men, wound nearly one hundred others, and leave several dozen survivors to defend an ever-shrinking perimeter with little water or ammo. A powerful coming-of-age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MCLEAN, JACK MCLGraham, Felicia
Summary: Flat track roller derby is one of the country's fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world. Rollergirls captures the spirit of the game, which is poised to become an Olympic sport, and highlights the women who have become known as the godmothers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.21 GRAMcKeen, William
Summary: McKeen chronicles the mesmerizing life of legendary Gonzo journalist and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson's childhood is detailed, along with his explosive relationship with his editors at Playboy and Rolling Stone, his drug use, his controversial persona, and life at his secluded Colorado home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 070.92 THOMPSON, HUNTER S. McKMacLean, Alistair
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOMelian, Gaby
Summary: "Chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food--from growing up in Argentina to her time as a street vendor and later as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's personal, healthy, and thoughtful"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MELMillan, Cesar
Summary: Looks at the positive effects that having and training dogs has on their owners, and shares personal stories of how the dogs in his life have given him important lessons in respect, confidence, resilience, and authenticity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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Summary: In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service, during which Kathy not only played a crucial role in raising young Caroline and John Jr., but also had a front-row seat to some of the twentieth century's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCKEON, KATHY MCKMelman, Yossi.
Summary: Inspired by hate and surrounded by fundamentalist leaders in a country that may soon possess nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses the most serious threat to world peace, even while he shrewdly manipulates public opinion at home. Until now, Americans have known little about him. Since his election in June 2005, Ahmadinejad has accelerated his country's nuclear research; called for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.0544 MELBailey, Kevin McLean
Summary: In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed: the original Western Flyer, immortalized in John Steinbeck’s nonfiction classic The Log from the Sea of Cortez. In this book, Kevin M. Bailey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 BAIMaclear, Kyo
Summary: "Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MaclearMcNeal, Stephanie
Summary: Given unprecedented access to three major influencers--Caitlin Covington of Southern Curls and Pearls, runner Mirna Valerio and OG "mommy blogger" Shannon Bird--a millennial journalist shows how they build their empires, struggle with the haters, fight for creative control, parent in public, and try to look good while doing it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MCNMcLain, Paula.
Summary: In this fictional memoir, Hadley Hemingway chronicles the life and career of her husband, famed twentieth century writer Ernest Hemingway. Through Hadley's unique perspective, listeners get a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the Lost Generation writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLOrlean, Susan.
Summary: Chronicles the rise of the iconic German shepherd character while sharing the stories of the real WWI dog and the canine performer in the 1950s television show, and explores Rin Tin Tin's relevance in the military and popular culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIN TIN TIN ORLOrlean, Susan.
Summary: Chronicles the 1994 crime story of John Laroche, a plant dealer who teamed up with three Seminole Indians to steal rare orchids from a southern Florida swamp with the intention of having the orchids cloned to sell to collectors; examines the ramifications of the case, which concerned a wide variety of groups, including environmentalists, Native Americans, and orchid enthusiasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9344 ORLOrlean, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Fascinating, witty, and bizarre, this true story of beauty and obsession in Florida weaves a seductive tale of plant smugglers, swamp explorers, and the strange effects orchids have on the eccentric collectors who must possess them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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Summary: "A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MACClein, Emmeline
Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told--a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FUJDay, Felicia
Summary: "From the online entertainment pioneer, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAY, FELICIA DAYMacLean, Harry N.
Summary: "On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023