Traig, Jennifer.
Summary: A woman who suffered from an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder in her childhood recounts how her drive for perfection and incessant hand-washing rituals compromised her daily life and strained her relationship with her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRAIG, JENNIFER TRAChurnin, Nancy
Summary: "Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. So when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she jumped at the chance. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her. Now her portraits hang in Washington,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books, LLC 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 WARGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: Linda Greenlaw hadn't been blue-water fishing for ten years, since the great events chronicled in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean, when an old friend offered her the captaincy on his boat, Seahawk, for a season of swordfishing. She took the bait, of course, and thus opened a new chapter in a life that had already seen enough adventure for three lifetimes. The Seahawk turns out to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GREENLAW, LINDA GREGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: The bestselling author's sequel to "The Hungry Ocean" is a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey, "Seaworthy" is Greenlaw's compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her true self between land and water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 GREKhor, Shing Yin
Summary: "An illustrated comic travelogue about an American immigrant driving alone through all that's left of "The Mother Road," Route 66"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KHOGawande, Atul.
Summary: The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. Author Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.22 GAWGraft, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crofton Creek Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 GraftGómez-Colón, Salvador
Summary: "Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young man shares how he combated Puerto Rico's public health emergency after Hurricane Maria. Suffering heavy damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rican communities lacked access to clean water and electricity. Salvador Gómez-Colón couldn't ignore the basic needs of his homeland, and knew that nongovernmental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOMEdmonds, Chris (Christopher Waring)
Summary: "Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the treacherous final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDMONDS, RODDIE EDMFox, Julia.
Summary: Exposes the inner sanctum of court life during the reign of Henry VIII through the eyes and ears of Jane Boleyn, wife of George Boleyn and sister-in-law to Queen Anne Boleyn. Jane emerges as a courageous spirit, a modern woman forced by circumstances to fend for herself in a privileged but vicious world.--From source other than Library of Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 942.05 FOXEdmonds, Chris (Christopher Waring)
Summary: "Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is theinspiring truestory of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EDMONDS, RODDIE EDMKaufman, Kenn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.07 KAUWhitelock, Anna.
Summary: An Elizabethan expert describes the court of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a vivid picture of the gossip, conspiracy, intrigue, and romantic dalliances that surrounded the monarch and the daily lives of the women that attended her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 WHIWren, Christopher S. (Christopher Sale)
Summary: Walking tours through regions in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire are complemented by the author's description of ecological oddities, natural element challenges, and his rite of passage into retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 WREWinkler, Henry
Summary: The former star of "Happy Days" uses his trademark sense of humor to discuss the lessons he learned from family, fatherhood, and most importantly, fly fishing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.12 WINKing, Neil
Summary: "A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City--an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr's desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 LEVFairbanks, Amanda M.
Summary: "In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller (and Academy-Award nominated film) The Perfect Storm, and with a nod to Steven Gaines' dishy tell-all, Philistines at the Hedgerow, a riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island -- a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it -- and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 FAIRaff McCaulau, Lily.
Summary: "A beautifully written and contrarian narrative about what it means to hunt in America today"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 RAFHume, Mark
Summary: "A unique and radiant memoir about fatherhood and fly fishing. Fishing was Mark Hume's passion since he was a young boy, a lifeline through a childhood marked by impermanence. When he became a father, he knew he wanted to pass on his love of fishing and the natural world to his daughters. Most of all, he wanted to give them hope for their future even as they were growing up during an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUME, MARK HUMFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: "The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history--as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910 FRAWhite, Randy Wayne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 WHIDobson, Patrick.
Contents: A leap into the prairie sea -- I'm going to Helena, Montana : the Kansas cities -- Don't worry, kid, you'll be all right : Lawrence, Topeka, Saint Marys, Wamego -- It's the best you're gonna find here : Manhattan, Randolph, Marysville -- You'll find everything you need there : Beatrice, Nebraska; Wilber -- The Jims : Friend, Hastings, Hansen, Minden -- It's better to try something and apologize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009