Andreasen, Dan.
Summary: Seville, Ohio, is a sleepy town. Nothing exciting ever happens - until Captain Martin Van Buren Bates arrives. Standing seven feet eleven and a half inches, Captain Bates is a giant who has toured around the world in the circus. In search of a quiet home for himself and his wife (who is also a giant), Captain Bates decides to get off the train in Seville, although he fears that he will be too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC ANDYan, Lan
Summary: "In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family's story, she serves up an intimate account of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANRavin, Idan.
Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COOCao, Lan
Summary: "A mother-daughter memoir exploring loss, love, and healing, told in two alternating voices, from the critically acclaimed novelist and her teenage daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CAOPerry, Dayn
Summary: Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson earned the nickname "Mr. October" for the crucial clutch hitting that led his teams to the World Series six times and won him two series MVP awards, and this skill at the plate is perhaps what he is best remembered for. But behind the bat was a man many don't know--a man struggling to find his place in the world, at home, and in the sport that made him a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JACKSON, REGGIE PERDoan, Jenny
Summary: "Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny's corner shop -- with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back -- to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the U.S. and the headquarters of Jenny's world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB DOAN DOAAndreas, Peter
Summary: "Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went."--Jacket flap
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.66 SCHKi-moon, Ban
Summary: "Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. At six years old he fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive-until the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KI-MOON, BAN KI-MYan, Lianke
Summary: "In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and '70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, aswell as his own. Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANMooney, Nan
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.4 MOOAndersen, Jens
Summary: "The extraordinary inside story of the LEGO company--producer of the most beloved and popular toy on the planet--based on unprecedented access to the founding family that still owns the company, chronicling the brand's improbable journey to become the empire that it is today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Summary: "A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. In November 2013, Rose Andersen's younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home in a small town with oneof the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSEN, ROSE ANDShapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 ROBShapiro, Dani
Summary: "The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPIRO, DANI SHAMan, Chella
Summary: Offers advice and insight into cultivating self-acceptance and supporting inclusivity through the experiences of Chella Man, a deaf, transgender, and Jewish artist, activist, and actor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 158.1 MANMan, John
Summary: "In Samurai, celebrated author John Man provides a unique and captivating look at their true history, told through the life of one man: Saigo Takamori, known to many as 'the last samurai.' In 1877, Takamori led a rebel army of samurai in a heroic 'last stand' against the Imperial Japanese Army, who sought to end the 'way of the sword' in favor of firearms and modern warfare."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAIGO, TAKAMORI MANAndersen, Lisbeth Zornig
Summary: Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSEN, LISBETH ZORNG ANDDrain, Lauren.
Summary: "In the bestselling tradition of Escape and Stolen Innocence, the first look behind the curtains of the Westboro Baptist Church, by a young woman cast out from its clutches"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 286 DRATan, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TANFrance, Tan
Summary: In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's smash-hit QUEER EYE tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional Muslim family, as one of the few people of color in Doncaster, England. He illuminates his winding journey of coming of age, finding his voice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCE, TAN FRATan, Amy
Summary: "In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024