Slimani, Leïla

Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLI

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Alikhan, Salima

Summary: During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes--and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCH

Wahab, Saima.

Summary: Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAHAB, SAIMA WAH

Lima, Jamie Kern

Summary: "Shares the wild but true story of how a once struggling waitress turned her against-the-grain idea into an international bestselling sensation, eventually selling the company for over a billion dollars and becoming the first female CEO of a brand in L'Oraeal's 100+ year history. Faced with self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, Jamie reveals how she almost didn't make it, how she learned to trust...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIMA, JAMIE KERN LIM

Keith, Slim

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEITH, SLIM KEI

Calkhoven, Laurie

Summary: "Biography of American Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CAL

Iceberg Slim

Summary: This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cash Money Content 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ICEBERG SLIM ICE

Calkhoven, Laurie

Summary: Meet Jesse Owens, an African American runner who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin! What made his achievement even more memorable was that Adolph Hitler expected the Olympic Games to be a German showcase. In fact, he criticized the United States for even including black athletes on its Olympic roster. According to many reports, after Owens won his fourth gold medal, Hitler...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Sports Calkhoven

Kalush, William.

Summary: After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUDINI, HARRY KAL

Tyson, Mike

Summary: "From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYSON, MIKE TYS

Tyson, Mike

Summary: "A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--and a legend both in and out of the ring"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Gallego, Ruben

Summary: "Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

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