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White, Arisa

Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAS

Meredith, Nikki

Summary: The author shares how she visited Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel in prison to find out how they had changed after years of incarceration for the brutal murders they performed for Charles Manson, and how getting to know them led to more questions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp. 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEREDITH, NIKKI MER

Dugard, Jaycee Lee

Summary: "In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUGARD, JAYCEE LEE DUG

Cordell, LaDoris H.

Summary: Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal professionals and jurors who strive to make the imperfect system as fair as possible. Cordell takes you...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CORDELL, LADORIS H. COR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CORDELL COR

Faith, Karlene.

Summary: "At the age of twenty-one, Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and several of his other disciples, for the infamous murder rampage spanning two nights in August 1969. Leslie, who was present at the Rosemary and Leno LaBianca murders, cheerfully accepted her sentence, wishing only that she had better served Manson in carrying out his apocalyptic vision of "Helter...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northeastern University Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FAI

Mah, Adeline Yen

Summary: The true story of a young Chinese girl who grew up feeling unloved by her father who remarried shortly after her mother's death and treated his new family and subsequent children as upper class compared to his first children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4889 MAH
Call number: 921 MAH, ADELINE YEN MAH

Bilton, Chrysta

Summary: "In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILTON, CHRYSTA BIL

Holliday, J. S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1981

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 HOL

Masumoto, David Mas

Summary: "A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities--reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASUMOTO, DAVID MAS MAS

Hsu, Hua

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSU

Dugard, Jaycee Lee

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011

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Martin, Manjula

Summary: "H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, MANJULA MAR

Masumoto, David Mas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.2584 MAS

Busch, Colleen Morton.

Summary: An account of how five monks saved the U.S.'s oldest Zen Buddhist monastery describes the monastery's location in a remote area that was plagued by hundreds of wildfires in 2008 and the monks' decision to remain behind when even firefighters were evacuated.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.37 BUS

Prem, Deja Vu

Summary: "The powerful story of how an immigrant from the Philippines overcame childhood trauma and an emotionally abusive marriage to find her voice and thrive"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Phelps, Carissa.

Summary: In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHELPS, CARISSA PHE

Sheff, Nic.

Summary: The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHE

Brown, Daniel James

Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BRO

Leon, Jesse

Summary: "In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon's childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEON LEO

Hale, Nathan

Summary: "The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2013

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 HAL

Boessenecker, John

Summary: "Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true 'gentleman bandit.' His real...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK BART BOE

Roberts, Monty

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 ROB

See, Lisa.

2 holds on 1 copy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1996

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Grinapol, Corinne

Summary: "Although he started out as a teacher without aspirations to be an activist or politician, Harvey Milk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the 1960s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the first openly gay elected politician in California. While in office, Harvey Milk advocated for equal rights for the gay community. Even though his life and career...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MIL

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