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Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 COOCooper, Helene.
Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.6203 COOWallance, Gregory
Summary: "After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COURezaian, Jason
Summary: In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian's reporting was a mix of human interest stories and political analysis. He had even served as a guide for Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. Initially, Rezaian thought the whole thing was a terrible misunderstanding, but soon realized...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B REZAIAN REZHitchens, Christopher.
Summary: "The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER HITHitchens, Christopher.
Summary: "The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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Summary: Cokie Roberts' husband Steve Roberts reflects not only on her many accomplishments, but on how she lived each day with a devotion to helping others. For Steve, Cokie's private life was as significant and inspirational as her public one. Her commitment to celebrating and supporting other women was evident in everything she did, and her generosity and passion drove her personal and professional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, COKIE ROBWeissman, Michaele
Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISSMAN, MICHAELE WEIMartinez, Domingo.
Summary: "Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTINEZ, DOMINGO MARVargas, Jose Antonio
Summary: "The movement of people--what Americans call 'immigration' and the rest of the world calls 'migration'--is among the defining issues of our time. Technology and information crosses countries and continents at blistering speed. Corporations thrive on being multinational and polyglot. Yet the world's estimated 244 million total migrant population, particularly those deemed 'illegal' by countries...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VARGAS, JOSE ANTONIO VARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VARGAS VARPsaki, Jen
Summary: "Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she's learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation's interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) accomplished a great deal in his long life, working in magazine publishing, including a stint for Playboy, and writing science fiction such as The Power, The Dark Beyond the Stars, and thrillers such as The Glass Inferno (filmed as The Towering Inferno). Robinson also passionately engaged in politics, fighting for gay rights, and most famously writing speeches for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, FRANK M. ROBAli, Wajahat
Summary: "A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, WAJAHAT ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALI ALIMaclean, John N.
Summary: "A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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Summary: J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, he would press his ear to a radio, straining to hear the keys to his own identity. His mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something he couldn't name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 070.92 MOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOEHRINGER, J.R. MoehringerMorris, Sylvia Jukes.
Summary: Born illegitimate on New York's Upper West Side, with nothing to recommend her but blonde good looks and a ferocious intelligence, she used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction and drama. At ten, Clare Boothe understudied Mary Pickford on Broadway. At twenty, she was both a suffragette and a siren to well-placed men on both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUCRoem, Danica
Summary: The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROEM, DANICA ROEThomas, R. Eric
Summary: "R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went--whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city--he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Eric redefines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, R. ERIC THOSummary: In this sensational tale of one of the greatest storytellers in history, George Plimpton's astounding journalism career is captured in heartwarming footage and intimate personal interviews.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLIDeb, Sopan
Summary: Deb's experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign, and subsequently as a stand-up comedian, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his father and bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEB, SOPAN DEBRoberts, Steven V.
Summary: Cokie Roberts' husband Steve Roberts reflects not only on her many accomplishments, but on how she lived each day with a devotion to helping others. For Steve, Cokie's private life was as significant and inspirational as her public one. Her commitment to celebrating and supporting other women was evident in everything she did, and her generosity and passion drove her personal and professional...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROBERTS, COKIE ROBFarivar, Masood.
Summary: Massood Farivar draws on his unique experience as a native Afghan, a former mujahideen fighter, and a longtime U.S. resident to provide unprecedented insight into the recent collision between Islam and the West.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2009