Sacks, Oliver
Summary: "Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SACRopper, Allan H.
Summary: "Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this book, Dr. Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell take the reader behind the scenes at Harvard Medical School's neurology unit to show how a seasoned diagnostician faces down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 ROPSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 SACWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESLoMenzo, Angela
Summary: "Writer, makeup artist, and creative director Angela LoMenzo combines stunning photography and powerful real stories to shine a light on the wild and wondrous journeys of twenty-five extraordinary and deeply creative women." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.0925 LOMLabash, Matt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 LABWilliams, Marjorie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 WILZickefoose, Julie.
Summary: A wild bird rehabilitator and nature artist describes her painstaking efforts to rescue injured birds and her experiences when those birds come back to visit, looking at the personality and quirks of individual birds of different species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 ZICSummary: Dean Cage is a former Special Ops agent. Now he is a marked man who becomes the victim of mistaken identity. Injected with a powerful hallucinogenic drug that is supposed to force him to tell secrets he doesn't have to give, Cage races against time to clear his name and find an antidote that will save his life. Unfortunately, the only thing that can save him is some thing he doesn't want to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Unstoppable 2004Summary: Here is a sparkling collection of Crown jewels--from amusing tales that humanize their subjects to dramatic stories of martyrdoms, palace intrigues, and bloody battles. Elizabeth Longford, intimate of the royal family and biographer of Victoria and Elizabeth II, has assembled the best anecdotes ever written and reported about the kings and queens of England, across the full range of Britain's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.009 OXFDeRamus, Betty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7115 DEROden, Nikki
Summary: In this collection of laugh-out-loud stories, lawyer and mom coach, Nikki Oden, serves up 40 bite-sized chapters filled with raw and easy-to-implement advice for any mom who has ever struggled with nurturing her career and her family at the same time. You'll walk away entertained, inspired, and equipped with the tools you need to create a mom life you absolutely love.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Advantage Media 2023
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Summary: Slave couples who ran away together, a white woman who escaped with her slaves and an underground railroad that sometimes ran in reverse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 DERSummary: A compilation of essays on claiming control of your life, whether it's reducing clutter in your home or learning to say "no" without guilt. The authors share the fulfillment that comes from focusing on what matters most in your life-- your family, your friends, and even your self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CHIBrower, Kate Andersen.
Summary: "America's first families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, [this book] reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 BROCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 975.3 BROSummary: A documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing childhood diaries, letters, and poems and art; with total strangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shares twenty stories from diverse survivors of childhood sexual violence, explaining how they overcame the boundaries of stigma and silence to help prevent trauma and loss of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 DODWashington, John E.
Summary: "Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM WASSummary: "101 reasons to laugh out loud. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics -- humanity's ability to laugh at itself. Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a day, or a story a day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 CHICox, Lynne
Summary: "A picture book about a sea turtle named Yoshi who has traveled further than any other living animal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023