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Africa, Northwest Description and travel Authors, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature Common fallacies Connecticut Connecticut Biography Disinformation Meriden (Conn.) Biography Juvenile literature Murphy, John Cullen Social media Sovich, Nina Travel Africa, NorthwestMorine, David E.
Summary: In January 2003, retired CEO Ramsay Peard asked longtime conservationist and friend David "Bugsy" Morine if he wanted to canoe the four-hundred-mile-long Connecticut River. Morine readily agreed--under one condition: No camping. "I'm too old to be sleeping on the ground, cooking over an open fire, and crapping in the woods," Morine told Peard, "and so are you." "Where will we stay?" Peard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GPP/Globe 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.404 MORTougias, Robert
Summary: "The story of a year in the bird-life of a three-acre woodlot in rural Connecticut, in which the reader shadows the author month by month as he watches, listens, and chronicles the movement of the seasons through the complex and fascinating lives of the birds that come and go. Illustrated with twenty-five line drawings that mimic a 'notebook diary' style, the narrative opens the eyes of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 TOUCoombs, Linda
Summary: "Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective. When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off of the Mayflower, ready to start a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home MarcheseLisle, Laurie.
Summary: "The rituals of gardening give a rhythm ... to everyday life that is apart from the routines of writing and the flows of relationships. Tending my garden became the same as taking care of myself." In this modern pastoral, Lisle tells us how she heaved compost, dug post holes, planted, and replanted--and how she also found herself digging into her feelings about love and loss, work and play,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 LISRose, Daniel Asa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ROSBailey, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.46 BAIKerman, Piper.
Summary: With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of the millions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem KermanDePaola, Tomie
Summary: Author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school in 1941 when he was a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.91 KANTaber, Gladys Bagg
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1984
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Summary: "An exploration of parenting, sports, and the suburbs, all through the sport of children's ice hockey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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Summary: "A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America"--
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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 OUTLAW, WILLIAM JUNEBUG, III BARBenedict, Jeff.
Summary: Susette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased an old house perched on the waterfront in New London, Conn. It wasn't fancy, but with hard work she was able to turn it into a home that was important to her. Little did she know that the City of New London, desperate to revive its flailing economy, wanted to raze her house and others along the waterfront in order to win a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.746 BENDe Paola, Tomie.
Summary: Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DEPMoehringer, J. R.
Summary: J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, he would press his ear to a radio, straining to hear the keys to his own identity. His mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something he couldn't name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOEHRINGER, J.R. MoehringerHart, Dolores
Summary: "Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut. Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HART, DOLORES HARMurphy, Cullen
Summary: A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt," explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, JOHN CULLEN MURStern, Jane.
Summary: The author describes how she survived severe depression by becoming an EMT, describing her training under an ex-Marine, the confusion of her first calls, and her new vocation's ability to reveal the secrets of human nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.025 STEWolters, Cleary.
Summary: "The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time--a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond. Fans nationwide have fallen in love with Orange Is the New Black, the critically acclaimed and wildly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLTERS, CLEARY WOLFrankel, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRAHaskell, Will
Summary: The underdog story of Will Haskell, who became a Democratic state Senator in 2018 at age twenty-two--taking on an incumbent who had been undefeated for Haskell's entire life and earning an endorsement from President Obama--and is determined to pave the way for his peers to transform government from the bottom up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASKELL, WILL HASWilliamson, Elizabeth
Summary: "Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson's landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting and the work by a group of Sandy Hook parents to defend themselves and the truth of their children's fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022