Kim, Carol

Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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Murphy, Mannie

Summary: "What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MUR

Mitchell, Andie.

Summary: All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITCHELL, ANDIE MIT

Darwish, Nonie.

Summary: A Cairo-raised daughter of an Egyptian military officer describes how she was raised to hate Americans and Jewish people and submit to dictatorship, her decision to relocate to America, and her efforts to promote peace and tolerance at the risk of her own safety.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.049 DARWISH, NONIE DAR

Murphy, Audie

Summary: America's most decorated soldier of World War II describes his experiences fighting his way across Europe, portraying the brutalities of war from the perspective of the infantry soldier in campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France and Germany.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MURPHY, AUDIE MUR

Nin, Anais

Contents: v. 1. 1931-1934.--v. 2. 1934-1939.--v.3 1939-1944.--v.4 1944-1947.--v.5 1947-1955.--v.6 1955-1966.--v. 7. 1966-1974.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press 1966

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 NIN, ANAIS NIN

Haynie, Miriam.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dietz Press 1959

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 Hayni
1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 975.5 H

Bennett, Artie

Summary: "Zippy Chippy is descended from the leading legends of horse racing. He is destined for greatness and glory. But . . . when the starting bell rings, it's anybody's guess what Zippy will do. Will Zippy go for a gentle trot around the track or stop and smell the roses? Or, perhaps, never even leave the starting gate?! What's an owner to do? Try and try again! After all, he believes in Zippy- and,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 798.4 BEN

Antin, Evan

Summary: "Star of Animal Planet's Evan Goes Wild and People magazine's "Pet Vet" Dr. Evan Antin takes readers beyond his viral Instagram posts right into the wild world with him. World Wild Vet is an up close and personal look at planet earth, in all its wild glory. But beyond the laugh-out-loud stories and dangerous encounters with some of our planet's most exotic creatures, it is a clarion call to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTIN, EVAN ANT

Ianni, Anthony

Summary: "'They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of.' Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play for the Michigan State Spartans. Centered:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Lightning Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IANNI, ANTHONY IAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B IANNI IAN

Sheridan, Fannye.

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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1973

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 Sheri

Price, Antje.

Summary: Biography of Feodor Protar.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaver Island Historical Society 2006

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 PROTAR, FEODOR PRI

Greene, Ronnie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GRE

Rowbottom, Allie

Summary: "A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWBOTTOM, ALLIE ROW

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROWBOTTOM ROB

Liontas, Annie

Summary: "Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIONTAS, ANNIE LIO

Proulx, Annie.

Summary: "Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PROULX, ANNIE PRO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRO

Vanasco, Jeannie

Summary: "Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides--after fourteen years of silence--to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. "It's the least I can do," he says....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANASCO, JEANNIE VAN

Driver, Minnie

Summary: "A charming, poignant, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRIVER, MINNIE DRI

Gaffigan, Jeannie

Summary: "In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. As the mother of 5 kids-6 if you include her husband-sat in the neurosurgery department in star-covered sweats too whimsical for the seriousness of the situation, all she could think was "Am I going to die?" Thankfully, Jeannie and her family were able to survive their time of crisis,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAFFIGAN, JEANNIE GAF

Morris, Jeannie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rand McNally 1971

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 MOR

Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERN

Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on. She has submitted her will to his, and now she finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, fifty years later,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ARN

Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERN

Ernaux, Annie

Summary: Translation of a French memoir in which the author discusses her father's attempt to kill her mother years earlier, and ponders the impact of the incident on the rest of her life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERN