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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLA, JOSEP PLAMeaker, Marijane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA MEAThompson, Laura
Summary: "The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THOWorsley, Lucy
Summary: "Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTIE, AGATHA WORBond, Jenny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 BONGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: The Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author recalls his childhood and youth, and recounts the family stories retold by his relatives, revealing the origins of many of the incidents he incorporated into his work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SPANISH 468 MARMankell, Henning
Summary: In January 2014 Hening Mankell was informed that he had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. He writes about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANKELL, HENNING MANKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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Summary: "Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the 20th century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of the poet George Sterling, wants the opposite: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PREErnaux, Annie
Summary: "In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on. She has submitted her will to his, and now she finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, fifty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ARNSteig, William
Summary: A peak at the life of William Steig in 1916 when he was a young boy living in the Bronx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STESandeen, Del
Summary: Maya Angelou was a writer, dancer, activist, and actress, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her body of work evokes emotions that range the full spectrum, from joy to heartbreak and from rage to hope. A phenomenal woman, she enriched the world of literature and society as a whole. This essential biography explores her life and creative output and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGDawson, Keila V.
Summary: "A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Beaming Books] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 DAWThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ThomasWong, Carmen Rita
Summary: Carmen Rita Wong siempre ha anhelado un sentido de pertenencia: primero cuando era una niña pequeña en una habitación cálida llena de mujeres latinas negras y morenas, como su madre, Lupe, animándola bailando durante su infancia en Harlem. Y en Chinatown, donde su padre inmigrante, "Papi" Wong, un estafador, la exhibiría a ella y a su hermano mayor en opulentos restaurantes decorados en rojo y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH WONThurman, Judith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DINESEN, ISAK THUFawkes, Glynnis
Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Charlotte Brontë, following her and her siblings from childhood to the publication of Jane Eyre"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney - Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FAWSummary: After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) pieced together a narrative of Gray's life to create the documentary And Everything is Going Fine. Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one-man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANDReed, Glynnis
Summary: "James Baldwin was an outspoken advocate for social justice and equality for Black people in America. He lent a creative and powerful voice to the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s and brilliantly critiqued the problems of race in the 20th century. Through his novels, plays, poetry and essays, Baldwin urged the world to understand and appreciate the humanity and complexity of his fellow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Art ReedVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas Llosa en 1971 el título de doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, muestra la admiración del Nobel peruano por García Márquez y por su novela Cien años de soledad. En él se analiza en profundidad la obra del autor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH LLOLutes, Della T. (Della Thompson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.973 LUTHastings, Selina
Summary: "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEDFORD, SYBILLE HASMoser, Benjamin
Summary: "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONTAG, SUSAN MOSDenise, Anika
Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019