Lehmann, Devra
Summary: "Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SOCHarding, Debora
Summary: "For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDING, DEBORA HARGinsberg, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 GINGinsberg, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95 GINLocker, Thomas
Summary: Introduces philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, using selections from his own writings and an imaginary journey into the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THOBerra, Yogi
Summary: A first-person account of Yogi Berra's life and tumultuous times in major league baseball. Includes interviews and anecdotes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BERBerra, Yogi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.357 BerraMehra, Nishta
Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEHMeyers, Dvora.
Summary: In The end of the perfect 10, Dvora Meyers provides an account of the controversial world of gymnastics, the recent changes to the scoring system, and what these changes mean for the future of American gymnastics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.4 MEYAitkenhead, Decca
Summary: "A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son's life--then drowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AITKENHEAD, DECCA AITBerra, Yogi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BERJebara, Mohamed
Summary: "An accessible and fresh biography boldly arguing that Muhammad's entrepreneurial mindset helped unleash the modern world "A beautifully written, immaculately researched meditation on the impact of the Prophet Muhammad on the modern world. I loved this book!" -Reza Aslan, author of No God but God and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth A six-year-old cries in his mother's arms as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUHAMMAD JEBDeGraf, Anna
Summary: Anna DeGraf, an independent pioneer, recounts her twenty-five years of adventure in Alaska and the Yukon Territory before, during, and after the Gold Rush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archon Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEGRAF, ANNA DEGIrving, Debby
Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRVSperegen, Devra Newberger
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 SPESebba, Anne
Summary: "Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 SEBSebba, Anne.
Contents: Just plain Jennie -- I love her better than life itself -- I have placed all my hopes of future happiness in this world on you -- Jennie is quite satisfied with Randolph just now -- I quite forget what it is like to be with people who love me -- rather a relief to get Winston off my hands -- Lord Randolph Churchill will probably always retain a great power of mischief -- All that you are to me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, JENNIE SebBrockman, Terra
Summary: Henry's Farm, run by Henry Brockman, is in central Illinois and some of the richest farming land in the world. There, he and his family, five generations of farmers, including sister Terra, the author, have bucked the traditional agribusiness conventional wisdom by farming in a way that's sensible, sustainable, and focused on producing healthy, nutritious food in ways that doesn't despoil the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 BROKastor, Deena
Summary: "From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potential. Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college. Her competitive method--run as hard as possible, all the time--brought her to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KASTOR, DEENA KASSebba, Anne
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with twoyoung sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSENBERG, ETHEL SEBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROSENBERG SEBSebba, Anne.
Summary: A portrait of the divorcée maligned for her marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII discusses the impoverished early life that fueled her ambitions, theories about her alleged personality disorder, and her posthumous status as a female empowerment icon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINDSOR, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF SEBBerra, Yogi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.357 BERBerra, Yogi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BERMckesson, DeRay
Summary: "We have never been the voiceless, proclaims activist DeRay Mckesson, we have been the unheard. And the message that must now be heard is that inequality is neither hardwired nor inevitable. We have a system that was designed to favor some at the expense of others, and because it was designed, it can be redesigned. Indeed, we can live in a society of equity, justice, and joy. In August 2014,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018