DuPont, Lonnie Hull
Summary: After years of loving the vibrant city life in San Francisco, Lonnie Hull DuPont reluctantly trades her three-room apartment on foggy, lively Telegraph Hill for a farmhouse on a quiet plain in Michigan. She immediately misses the rhythm and the pace of the city, and the isolation country living brings has her longing for something more. Enter Kit Kat and Lucy--stray cats who arrive at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal Pet DuPontConroy, Pat
Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 CONCooke, Pan
Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024
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Summary: Draws on primary sources to recreate Sheriff Pat Garrett's manhunt for Billy the Kid, the Wild West's most notorious outlaw, and offers a dual biography of the two legendary larger-than-life figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1552 GARConroy, Pat
Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONHughes, Frieda
Summary: "From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, a memoir of love, obsession, and feathers. When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her ailing marriage. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, FRIEDA HUGSobol, Richard.
Summary: A guided tour by local children leads the author--and readers--inside an ancient Cambodian temple and around its ruins, where they explore the mysteries of the site and discover a little-known secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.602 SOBGershon, Gina.
Summary: A founding member of the New York City theater group Naked Angels traces her life-long relationship with cats while recounting the loss of and search for a beloved feline companion, a quest through the back streets of Los Angeles that led to encounters with numerous personalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 GERSHON, GINA GERMyles, Eileen
Summary: The author writes an account of her relationship with her pit bull Rosie. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, the author launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYLES, EILEEN MYLNeshama, Rivvy
Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TURParelli, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Western Horseman Magazine 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARELLI, PAT PARSchroeder, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SchroSummitt, Pat Head
Summary: Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author, tells for the first time her story of victory and resilience, as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUMMITT, PAT HEAD SUMHilleman, Andrew
Summary: "Resurrecting a forgotten American folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice, World, Chase Me Down is a debut novel of adrenaline-fueled, page-turning suspense based on the first great crime of the last century: the revenge kidnapping by out-of-work former butcher Pat Crowe of the sixteen-year-old son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon--the man who forced him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILMitchell, Pat
Summary: "Pat Mitchell is a serial ceiling smasher. A former news reporter and news anchor, she was the first woman to host a nationally syndicated daily talk show, the first woman president of Turner Broadcasting, the first woman president of PBS and of CNN Productions. She has been on Variety's list of "Most Powerful Women in Hollywood" and Forbes' list of "Women Changing the World." Today, she is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITCHELL, PAT MITNorth, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2005
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Summary: Chronicles the author's efforts to reconcile with his harsh fighter pilot father, who inspired "The Great Santini," recounting how at the end of his father's life, he defended the author from his critics while helping to heal family estrangements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONROY, PAT CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SANTINI CONMay, Katherine
Summary: In anticipation of her 38th birthday, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted time alone, in nature, to understand why she was having so much trouble coaching with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating; and why the world felt full of expectations she couldn't meet. She was also reeling from a chance encounter with a voice on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAY, KATHERINE MAYHenry, Pat
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 HENKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Krakauer draws on Pat Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.33 KRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TILLMAN, PAT KRASmith, Pat
Summary: "God has a great plan for you. Sometimes it's difficult to see and hard to find when the only things in front of you are challenging circumstances, lost opportunities, or overwhelming obstacles. Many things in life just happen to you--you don't choose them. But God can turn even the things you have no control over into good, not only for you, but also for someone else. For Pat Smith, former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, PAT SMILevin, Larry (Laurence M.)
Summary: "A heartwarming story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 LEVConroy, Pat.
Summary: The author reflects on the place of sports in his life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity, his education at the Citadel, and his journey to best-selling writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 CONConroy, Pat.
Summary: Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2010