McDonnell, Patrick

Summary: "Imbued with the creativity, artwork, and heart of Patrick McDonnell, this all-new graphic novel love letter features the classic Marvel super heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Black Panther, and Spider-Man, and is the synthesis of McDonnell's positive, inspirational sensibility and Marvel's blockbuster brand. Using the Marvel Universe as avatars,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2023

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

Tobar, Héctor

Summary: "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.868 TOB

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Dorn, Anna

Summary: "In the tradition of How to Murder Your Life, a young woman's witty memoir demystifying law school and lawyers through tales of her own badness, the badness of her peers, and the badness of the law in general"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DORN, ANNA DOR

Boot, Max

Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOO

Doll, Don

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.3 DOL

Dogon, Mondiant

Summary: "A stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for refugees everywhere One night when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in Congo, was very young, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu man, came to their home with a machete in his hand and warned the family they were to be killed within...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOGON, MONDIANT DOG

Doig, Ivan.

Summary: A fifteenth anniversary edition of the autobiography of a newspaperman/editor who grew up in the wilderness of Montana, with a new preface in which the author discusses how he came to write the book.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992

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Blom, Onno

Summary: "A captivating exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years by a prize-winning biographer. Rembrandt van Rijn's early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare's, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his age? How in short, did Rembrandt become Rembrandt? Seeking the roots...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN BLO

Doty, Mark

Summary: "Effortlessly blending biography, criticism, and memoir, National Book Award-winning poet and best- selling memoirist Mark Doty explores his personal quest for Walt Whitman. Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, andby his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty-a poet, a lover of men, a New...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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Doty, Mark.

Summary: Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When poet Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOTY, MARK DOT

Bockris, Victor

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARHOL, ANDY Bockris

Englebert, Victor.

Summary: Wind, Sand, & Silence is an extraordinary photographic document by world traveler/photographer Victor Englebert. Over a period of twenty-six years - from 1965 to 1991 - Englebert lived and traveled with the nomads of Africa. While accompanying them on their journeys across the vast African terrain, or simply living with them in their camps, Englebert captured stunning images of their daily...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1992

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Kravchenko, Victor

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Publisher / Publication Date: Transaction 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 KRA

Doan, Jenny

Summary: "Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny's corner shop -- with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back -- to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the U.S. and the headquarters of Jenny's world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB DOAN DOA

Wang, Dora.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 WAN

Daum, Meghan

Summary: "A book blending memoir, reporting, and argument, which drills past the obvious political opinions of our moment in an attempt to make sense of our social and political landscape, particularly with regards to feminism and the various layers of the Trump Resistance movement"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 DAU

Hook, Peter

Summary: The bassist for the band Joy Division, the godfathers of alternative rock who reinvented music in the post-punk era, recounts how four young men from Manchester rose from the punk scene to create music that would define a generation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 HOO

Cherkashin, Victor

Contents: Inside the lion's den : Washington Station -- The training of a KGB handler -- Cold War front line : Beirut -- Treason -- Intrigue at Moscow centre -- Washington Station : the redefector -- Washington Station : the most dangerous spy -- Washington Station : how to catch a spy -- Washington Station : the biggest catch : Hanssen -- The final years of the KGB -- Wild capitalism in new Russia --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHERKASHIN, VICTOR CHE

Tóibín, Colm

Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOI

Davidson, Victor

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprint Co. 1978

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3758 David

Klemperer, Victor

Contents: [1]. A diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars Klemperer