Merriam, Eve
Contents: Eliza Southgate (1783-1809): schoolgirl.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): founder of the women's suffrage movement.--Maria Mitchell (1818-1889): astronomer.--Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (1836-1887): wife of a Confederate officer.--Arvazine Angeline Cooper (1845-1929): pioneer across the plains.--Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): minister and doctor.--Susie King Taylor (1848-1912): born a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GROGurba, Myriam
Summary: "Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GURBA, MYRIAM GURSteinberg, Myriam
Summary: "A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn't wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin the process of conceiving a child without a partner. With her family and friends to support her, she picked a sperm donor and was on her way. But Myriam's journey was far from straightforward. She experienced the soaring highs and devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.178 STESchindler, Meriel
Summary: "An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family's fate in Innsbruck and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SCHMinoui, Delphine
Summary: "An extraordinary account of a band of young men in a besieged Damascan suburb who find books in the rubble and create a secret library"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MINOUI MINMelian, 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 MELKoscik, Terian
Summary: " ... Terian Koscik shares her experiences of living with anxiety, and how going to a therapist taught her one of the most important things she could ever learn: there really is no "right" way to feel"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Singing Dragon, an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 KOSHaynie, Miriam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dietz Press 1959
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Katin, 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 KATHorn, Miriam
Summary: Traces the conservation movement by ranchers, farmers, river workers, and fishermen who in spite of separating themselves from political environmentalism are helping to restore and protect America's grasslands, wildlife, wetlands, and oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 HOREngelberg, Miriam
Summary: "A cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir"--from p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 ENGLancewood, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Lancewood lives a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her husband in New Zealand. She lives simply in a tent or hut and survives by hunting wild animals, foraging edible plants and using minimal supplies. For the last six years, she and her husband have lived this way through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated but, more importantly, connected to the land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piatkus 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCEWOOD, MIRIAM LANPawel, Miriam
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of Governor Jerry Brown's family dynasty. When Governor Jerry Brown finishes his fourth term at the end of 2018, he will have bookended his career as both the youngest and the oldest governor of California. He and his father Pat Brown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PAWAnderson, Marian
Contents: Philadelphia childhood -- Life at grandmother's -- Branching out -- Shock -- Learning how -- Up and way down -- Home of our own -- Mother -- Contest -- Step up -- First trip to Europe -- Back to Europe -- Scandinavia -- Beyond Scandinavia -- Home again -- Russia -- Easter Sunday -- Songs I sing -- Notes on the voice -- On the road -- Good companions -- Highest and the lowest -- East and West --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, MARIAN ANDMontgomery, Heather L.
Summary: "A science educator honors children's curiosity and pockets full of "stuff" by introducing nine scientists who collected natural treasures when they were young. Collecting, sorting, and playing with shells, stones, and other objects taught these young people how to observe, classify, and discover"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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Summary: Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.403 CALCarey, Mariah
Summary: The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist tells the unfiltered story of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andy Cohen Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CAREY CARFredericks, Mariah
Summary: "New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: "From the author of Lailah's Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls across Pakistan at a time when girls weren't encouraged to go to school. Milloo lives in a time when school is considered unnecessary for girls. But to Milloo, education is essential. When Milloo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FARReid, Megan
Summary: Introduces trailblazing mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani from her unexpected interest in geometry as a young girl to becoming the first woman to win the world's most prestigious honor in mathematics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MIRKor, Eva Mozes.
Summary: "A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a "Mengele twin" subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KORKor, Eva Mozes
Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 KORManushkin, Fran.
Summary: A Jewish mother preparing for Passover tells her young children, the story of Miriam, the Biblical woman who prophesied the birth of Moses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1992