DeAngelis, Audrey
Summary: This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Cardi B. Readers learn about Cardi's early life, inspiration to pursue music, and successes as a hip-hop artist. With striking photographs and sidebars, the book also explores Cardi's social media success, her iconic fashion, and her social and political activism. Features include a timeline, glossary, references, websites, source notes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B CARDI BDeAngelis, Gina.
Summary: A biography of the explorer whose brutal conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico was responsible for the first Spanish settlements in the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CORTES DEASchlachter, Terese
Summary: "The biography of Colonel Greg Gadson (Ret.) co-written with writer and video producer Terese Schlachter, details Gadson's remarkable and inspirational journey from his grievous wounding as a battlefield commander in Iraq to becoming the spiritual coach of the New York Giants, a major film and television actor, and motivational life coach and outdoor-adventure enthusiast"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GADSON, GREGORY DIMITRI, SCHThermes, Jennifer
Summary: "The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CREShea, Therese.
Summary: The odds of becoming an NBA or WNBA player are daunting, but this appealing, behind-the-scenes look at the path to pro basketball might help young athletes beat the odds. Readers will learn about the youth and development leagues that can help them hone their skills. They'll find out who to contact to get into the right college and what they can do now to prepare themselves for their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 SHETeresa
Summary: During her lifelong service to the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of thousands whom nobody else was prepared to look after have been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little was known, however, about her own spiritual heights, or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TERESA, MOTHER TEROneill, Therese
Summary: Slut. Shrew. Sinful. Scold. The 19th- and early 20th-century American women profiled in this collection were called all these names and worse when they were alive. And that's just fine. These glorious dames earned those monikers, and one hundred years later they can wear them proudly! They refused to conform to societal standards. They bucked everyday niceties and blazed their own trails. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ONEThermes, Jennifer
Summary: "This gorgeous picture book biography follows Charles Darwin's adventures in South America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 THELarson, Theresa
Summary: In this inspiring memoir, a former female Marine platoon leader recalls the wars she has fought—on the playing field, the battlefield, and inside her own soul—revealing how overcoming the harrowing circumstances in her life helped her ultimately redefine what it means to be strong and what “perfect” really is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LARSON, THERESA LARWeir, Theresa
Summary: The story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the pride of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards are said to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WEIR, THERESA WEIWeir, Theresa
Summary: Describes the author's marriage to the favorite son of local orchard-owners whose bad luck makes them seem cursed and depicts the newlyweds' life on the farm amidst pesticides, environmental destruction, and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEIR, THERESA WEIBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIBrown, Theresa
Summary: "When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, THERESA BROMiller, Marie-Therese
Summary: "As more people watch and play esports, people from around the world have become famous for their gaming abilities. Meet amateur and professional gamers and learn how they started their esports careers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MILFlores, Theresa L.
Summary: While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, many people in the U.S. believe this is something that happens to foreign women men and children not something that happens to their own children and neighbors. They couldn't be more wrong. --publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ampelon Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FLOWeller, Theresa Lynn
Summary: "This book tells a story of the Native and Metis inhabitants of Mackinac Island based on the people (mostly women) enumerated in the Agatha Biddle Band of 1870. Theresa Weller provides a genealogy of the Band members and their families. Adding to their stories, she has provided images, stories, and newspaper accounts to provide a larger picture of people in a time and place-Mackinac Island in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37749 WELEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGGiudice, Teresa
Summary: In her second memoir, the Real Housewife chronicles her life since her release from prison and what it's been like to weather difficult times as a single mother. Though she recounts the happy memories she's experienced over the past year, she also touches upon some of the darkest times of her life, including her parents' hospitalizations for severe medical issues in late 2016, which led to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUIDICE, TERESA GUIRobeson, Teresa
Summary: "Follow the 14th Dalai Lama's harrowing escape to India in 1959, as he fled Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet. A story of risk and political tension, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the incredible story of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 DALWong, Teresa
Summary: "In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 WONGibbons, Leeza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lachance Pub Llc 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 GIBDomnauer, Teresa.
Summary: Traces Lewis & Clarke's exploratory journey acorss the western United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.804 DOMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.46 DOMTeresa, Mother
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books 1995