Pelley, Scott

Summary: Gallantry: The FDNY -- Resolve: President Bush on 9/11 -- Field note: Meeting the late Don Hewitt in Botswana -- Selflessness: Paulette Schank -- Authenticity: Bruce Springsteen -- Devotion: David Hall -- Field note: Kremlin rules -- Audacity: Ben Bernanke -- Invincibility: Nadia Murad -- Field note: No moss gathers -- Gratitude: early lessons -- Field note: Do you believe in signs? -- Duty:...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019

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Kerley, Barbara.

Summary: The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about what these awe-inspiring ancient animals and what they were like.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 567.9 KER

Kerley, Barbara.

Summary: A brief biography in pictures and simple text of Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2008

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Ervick, Kelcey

Summary: "A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl's life and changed women's history forever"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 ERVICK, KELCEY ERV

Hampton, Kelle.

Summary: "The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the story of the first year of her daughter Nella--who has Down syndrome--and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMPTON, KELLE HAM

Kerrey, Robert

Summary: The author traces his experiences as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, which led to his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and describes his sheltered childhood and his search for the truth about his uncle's death in World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2002

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.70 KER

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Begley, Louis.

Contents: Preface / by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein -- The keys to Venice / by Anka Muhlstein -- The only way to enter Venice / by Louis Begley -- Venice : reflections of a novelist / by Louis Begley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.53104 BEG

Roberts, Keiler

Summary: "Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROB

Wilson-Lee, Kelcey

Summary: "Revealing the truth behind the life of a royal princess in medieval England, the colorful story of the five remarkable daughters of King Edward I. Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized--and largely mythical--notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.03 WIL

Keahey, John.

Summary: Explores the unique culture of Sicily, discussing it's history, archaeology, food, the Mafia, and politics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.8 KEA

Gulley, Philip

Summary: "America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality. Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, only to discover later that some of the most important questions about God and ourselves don't have easy answers. And then...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2018

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Leonard, Dion

Summary: While racing through the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia, the author, a seasoned ultramarathoner, encounters a stray dog who, keeping pace with him for nearly 80 miles, gives him a new perspective on life, causing him to fight to bring her home with him with the help of strangers and a viral outpouring of assistance on the internet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2017

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Hemley, Robin

Summary: "Borderline Citizen is part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage, and part exploration of the unique shards of international territory cut from their "motherlands," as well as people whose sense of patriotism or nationalism has been strengthened or cutadrift by circumstance and history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2020

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Medley, Bill.

Contents: Orange County graffiti -- The Paramours -- The rendezvous ballroom -- The double-whammy -- The Beatles -- Shindig -- The Cow Palace -- We're, uh, I'm off to New York -- Riding the wave -- The green light from Sinatra -- That's the B-side -- Soul and inspiration -- Sweet Karen -- The "new" Righteous Brothers -- I can't make it alone -- Hey Jude -- Elvis -- No voice, no choice -- The second time...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Tizon, Alex.

Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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Beller, Thomas

Summary: "Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALINGER, J.D. BEL

Geller, Danielle

Summary: "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GELLER , DANIELLE GEL

Healey, Jonathan

Summary: "A fresh, exciting history of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.06 HEA

Eberhart, Dikkon.

Summary: He was destined from birth for literary greatness."If only his father hadn't stolen all the words."As the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate Richard Eberhart, Dikkon Eberhart grew up surrounded by literary giants. Frequent dinner guests included, among others, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath.To the world, they were literary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2015

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Gulley, Philip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GULLEY, PHILIP GUL

Keahey, John.

Summary: "Hidden Tuscany vividly displays the coastal areas of Tuscany, a territory often overlooked by visitors to Italy eager to see Chianti, Florence or Siena. Veteran journalist and Italophile John Keahey points out the keen distinctions that the western cities maintain: in food, lifestyle, and the way its artists are paving new directions in art that differ mightily from the Renaissance-rich...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5 KEA

Keahey, John.

Summary: A crist travelogue from Salt Lake Tribune reporter Keahey, laced with appealing historical references, that follows the itinerary of a century-old trip made by novelist George Gissing through southern Italy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: T. Dunne Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.54 KEA

Gulley, Philip.

Contents: Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The jig's up -- Call me coach -- Pond life -- The slow life -- You get what you pay for -- The compact -- The tornado -- The state of housing -- Better late than never! -- Exercise and other dirty words -- My conflicted life -- Too many friends -- Professional thinkers -- Zipper -- The writing life -- My wife, the scofflaw -- The death of freedom...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 242 GUL