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Thorndike Press large print adventure seriesGurba, Myriam
Summary: "Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GURBA, MYRIAM GURSteinberg, Myriam
Summary: "A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn't wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin the process of conceiving a child without a partner. With her family and friends to support her, she picked a sperm donor and was on her way. But Myriam's journey was far from straightforward. She experienced the soaring highs and devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.178 STEBernier, Rosamond.
Summary: Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNIER, ROSAMOND BernierChowdhury, Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.23 CHOPerrier, Dianne.
Contents: Introduction: These are the tales -- Seeking sunshine and sand -- Getting there : the road to sunshine and sand -- Winter sun -- The road to health -- Near swells, swells, and ultra swells -- Executive privilege -- The law of gradual fading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 PERBergner, Daniel
Summary: The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, RYAN SPEEDO BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GREEN BERBernier, Celeste-Marie
Summary: While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as the representative - 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman - are lionised worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edinburgh University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BERVernier, Joel M.
Summary: Humor columnist, management consultant, keynote speaker and author Joel Vernier continues to deliver wholesome humorist writing with his latest project : "The guinea pig in the freezer!" the book begins on the eve of the birth of his daughter and follows her growing up from an infant to adulthood, with all the fun and learning experiences in between. Life is filled with fun, laughter and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Comfy Chair Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit VernierChowdhury, Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.14 CHOWDSwain, Bernie
Summary: Powerful and moving stories of inspiration, adversity, and triumph from the Washington Speakers Bureau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 SWAMarcus, Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Business 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683 MARTaupin, Bernie
Summary: "This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary half-century-and-counting creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAUPIN, BERNIE TAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TAUPIN TAUBergner, Daniel
Summary: In the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the "remote reaches of the mind accessible" and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon within the decade. But today, psychiatric cures continue to elude us, as does the mind itself. Why is it that we still don't understand how the mind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind BergnerBender, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.4 BENKert, Bernice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROCKEFELLER, ABBY KertMerriam, Eve
Contents: Eliza Southgate (1783-1809): schoolgirl.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): founder of the women's suffrage movement.--Maria Mitchell (1818-1889): astronomer.--Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (1836-1887): wife of a Confederate officer.--Arvazine Angeline Cooper (1845-1929): pioneer across the plains.--Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): minister and doctor.--Susie King Taylor (1848-1912): born a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GROEnde, Bernice
Summary: Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 51), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farcountry Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 ENDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ENDE, BERNICE ENDKert, Bernice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST KERHorn, Miriam
Summary: Traces the conservation movement by ranchers, farmers, river workers, and fishermen who in spite of separating themselves from political environmentalism are helping to restore and protect America's grasslands, wildlife, wetlands, and oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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Summary: A stand-up comedian who was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness describes how her childhood was haunted by perpetual doomsday prophecies about an imminent apocalypse in which her non-believing neighbors and schoolmates were doomed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.9 ABRHerzog, Werner
Summary: "Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before. Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dietz Press 1959
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 Hayni1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 975.5 H
Katin, Miriam
Summary: "A stunning memoir of a mother and daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith. In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching, Katin and her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KATEngelberg, Miriam
Summary: "A cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir"--from p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006