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O'Connell, John

Summary: ""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 OCO

Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 Bagieu

Gigot, Jami

Summary: A lonely boy feels like a stranger on his own planet until the day his radio bursts to life with the rhythm of stardust energy. Includes notes and facts about David Bowie's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIG

Finn, Peter

Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FIN

Harness, Cheryl.

Summary: Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Finn, Peter

Summary: Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 FIN

Santella, Andrew.

Summary: A biography of Daniel Boone, focusing on his efforts as a pioneer and trailblazer during America's westward expansion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.9 SAN

Thoreau, Henry David

Summary: An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THO

Thoreau, Henry David

Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THO

Bell, Cece

Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEL

Kozar, Richard.

Summary: Presents a biography of the legendary frontiersman who explored Kentucky and the route to the West leading to American expansion of the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BOONE KOZ

Miller, Andy

Summary: "An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)-- a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books. Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and critic Andy Miller realized he's not nearly as well read as he'd like to be. A devout book lover who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2014

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Lowe, Chaunte

Summary: " World champion high jumper Chaunte Lowe pens the captivating story of her journey from an impoverished childhood full of big dreams and devastating hurdles, to becoming a bronze medal-winning US Olympian. Everything seemed set against Chaunte Lowe. Growing up with a single mother in Paso Robles, California, where she experienced food insecurity, homelessness, and domestic abuse, Chaunte...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023

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

Doggett, Peter.

Summary: Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of the David Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID DOG

Wilner, Barry.

Summary: "A collective biography of the top 10 running backs, both past and present, which includes accounts of game action, career statistics, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2011

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Hood, Ann

Summary: Reveals the personal stories behind the author's written works, describing her early years in a Rhode Island mill town and the books that shaped her love of literature, her political views, and her travel ambitions. "Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn't foster a love of literature, Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the companionship of books. She learned to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOD, ANN HOO

Cooke, Pan

Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024

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Rosenstock, Barbara

Summary: An account of how the third American president helped create the world's largest library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., shares excerpts from primary source documents that include Jefferson's thoughts on books, reading, and learning.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Pr 2013

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB JEFFERSON ROS

Cohen, Rachel

Summary: "A woman finds solace in Jane Austen following the death of her father and the birth of her child"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, RACHEL COH

Morgan, Robert

Summary: This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 MOR

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEI

Morley, Paul

Summary: Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition David Bowie is for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, constructs a definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWIE, DAVID MOR

Krosoczka, Jarrett

Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Lofaro, Michael A.

Contents: "Let the girls do the spelling" : the boyhood of Daniel Boone -- Soldier, suitor, hunter, explorer -- "In quest of the country of Kentucke" -- Henderson's imfamous company of land pyrates" : Transylvania -- Cutting the Wilderness Road -- Revolution and rescue on the frontier -- Sel-tow-ee, son of Blackfish -- Patriot or traitor? : Boonesborough besieged -- From pauper to legislator -- "Our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 LOF

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