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Penguin lives seriesMigel, Parmenia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 MIGNagel, Susan
Summary: The biography of Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution and the woman who helped shape the future of nineteenth-century Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGOULEME, MARIE-THERESE NAGHamilton, Nigel
Summary: "Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and under appreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN HAMPoor, Nigel
Summary: "From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people. The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world--600,000 each year and 2.3 million in total. The acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for eavesdropping,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 POOCawthorne, Nigel
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng CawthorneHamilton, Nigel.
Summary: A close-up, in-the-room look at how FDR took masterful command and control of the Second World War, from wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, to launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa, and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 SLASlater, Nigel.
Summary: A memoir by a noted food writer and cookbook author shares the story of growing up in 1960s suburban England, remembering his childhood through the food in his family's pantry and the development of his own culinary talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 SLANicolson, Nigel.
Summary: Recalls the ties between his family and the novelist and childhood moments spent with her, discussing her walks around his ancestral home, the progression of her well-known works, and her philosophy towards women's issues and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA NICPavitt, Nigel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 PAVColbert, David.
Summary: In just a few generations, Michelle Obama's family has blazed a path from a slave cabin to the White House. She's now writing a new chapter in history as a fresh kind of first lady, old-fashioned in many ways, yet so genuine and natural that she constantly surprises and inspires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB Obama ColColton, Larry.
Summary: Documents the stories of four World War II prisoners of war who were tortured by their Japanese captors, describing the events that led to their imprisonment, the brutal conditions that forged their deep bond, and their considerable struggles to re-acclimate to civilian life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 COLHaynes, Colton
Summary: "A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYNES, COLTON HAYDurán, Cristina
Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DURCoburn, Broughton
Summary: Chronicles the first American expedition to Mount Everest in May 1963, profiling the team of climbers while examining the impact the mission had on the American consciousness and sense of identity during the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 COBKanigel, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Scribner's 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAMANUJAN, IYENGAR KANFeigel, Lara
Summary: "A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEIGEL, LARA FEIFiges, Orlando
Summary: "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIGWoods, Tiger
Summary: "Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Tiger Woods' historic win at the 1997 Masters, an account of the pro golfer's historic career shares previously unknown stories and the ways his record-setting win changed both the sport and his life on and off the course,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODS, TIGERS WOOKanigel, Robert
Summary: Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, JANE KANScherer, Migael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHERER, MIGAEL SCHJollett, Mikel
Summary: "Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fiercelove and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOLLETT, MIKEL JOLAugel, William
Summary: "Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces.Based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BIG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC AUGFeigel, Lara.
Summary: A portrait of World War II-era London by five literary volunteers documents their experiences as ambulance drivers, firefighters, and other civilian aids through five years of war, beginning with a single night in September 1940.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013