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Summary: Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER, ALICE MULMuller, Melissa
Summary: Presenting revelations, this book returns Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalised and so all the more affecting. It offers an understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MULMoeller, John.
Summary: This book provides an insiders view of what it is like to dine at the White House and describes Chef Moeller's most memorable moments cooking for three First Families. It includes over 100 recipes for one-of-a-kind dishes featuring his trademark use of fresh, seasonal ingredients inspired by his classical French training with an American twist. Useful chef notes help adapt fine French cooking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Lifestyle Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.5 MOEKuegler, Sabine.
Summary: Sabine Kuegler's childhood was far from typical. The child of German linguists and missionaries, she spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in the most remote jungles of West Papua, Indonesia. There, as her family struggled for acceptance among the tightly knit and fiercely loyal community, Sabine spent her time swimming with crocodiles, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows, and chewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUEGLER, SABINE KUEMealer, Bryan
Summary: In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MEAFarbman, Melinda.
Summary: Describes the life of the chimpanzee that was sent into space as part of the American space program, describing his capture, training, the actual flight, and his life afterwards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 FARBeller, Elizabeth
Summary: "The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography that is perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted. A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and sister-in-law Lauren, the magnitude of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Publishing 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.973 BLAMelinek, Judy.
Summary: "The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELINEK, JUDY MELMelzer, Nils
Summary: "Nils Melzer's compelling investigation shows how, through secrecy, impunity and, crucially, public indifference, unchecked power risks annihilating Western democracy and the rule of law. The case of Julian Assange could set a chilling precedent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 MELToumani, Meline.
Summary: A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-- and abuse-- our personal histories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUMANI, MELINE TOUHastings, Selina
Summary: "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEDFORD, SYBILLE HASGeller, Danielle
Summary: "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GELLER , DANIELLE GELMulley, Clare
Summary: "Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MULPincus, Meeg
Summary: "Helen Keller was an activist, rebel, performer, romantic and so much more! Most stories about Helen Keller focus on the story of her deaf-blindness and scholarship, but there is more to Helen than her disability. This story teaches children to look beyond the surface with everyone they encounter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PINBeller, Thomas
Summary: "Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Summary: He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham's own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham's personal correspondence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAUGHAM, W. SIMERSET HASRuelle, Karen Gray
Summary: "Seven Allied spies of World War II who fooled the Nazis are profiled in this books including a Sufi princess, a major league baseball player, a magician, and others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 RUEPaperny, Anna Mehler
Summary: "A personal story of depression, as well as a journalistic account of its role and ramifications in society today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAPERNY, ANNA MEHLER PAPWeller, George
Summary: Vivid and heart-stopping, the dispatches of World War II reporter George Weller are immortalized in a new collection--edited by his son--of wartime reports that give firsthand accounts of the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WELLER, GEORGE WELWeller, Sheila.
Summary: "Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WELMedina, Nico
Summary: Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy politician, an impressive orator, and a brave soldier. Born in Rome in 100 BC, he quickly climbed the ladder of Roman politics, making allies--and enemies--along the way. His victories in battle awarded him the support of the people, but flush from power, he named himself dictator for life. The good times, however, would not last much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAEMedina, Nico
Summary: "Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ERICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ERIRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019