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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSES, GRANDMA MOSAsim, Jabari
Summary: Complemented by black-and-white photos, a young readers' adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by the late civil rights activist recounts her upbringing in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and her fight for equality and justice in America's military environments,churches and courtrooms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROUDoten, Alvin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlo Press 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 287.6 DOTFoles, Nick
Summary: Get ready to defy the odds when everyone's counting you out. When the Philadelphia Eagles' starting quarterback went down with a torn ACL in week 14 of the 2017 NFL season, many fans--and commentators--assumed the Eagles' season was over. Instead, Nick Foles came off the bench and, against all odds, led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl victory in history. How did Nick get it done--winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOLES, NICK FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FOLES FOLShafrir, Doree
Summary: "An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected, from the co-host of the hit podcast Forever35. Doree Shafrir was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed; at both sites, she authored countless viral articles. Just before she turned forty, she published her first novel, and one year later, she quit her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAFRIR, DOREE SHAPoses, David
Summary: "In his groundbreaking memoir, The weight of air, David chronicles his struggle to overcome mental illness and addiction. By age nineteen, he'd been through medical detox, inpatient rehab, twelve-step programs, and a halfway house. He saw his drug use as a symptom of depression, but the experts insisted that addiction was the problem. Over the next thirteen years, he went from one relapse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R PosesDowns, Maggie
Summary: "Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWNS, MAGGIE DOWRoper, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ROPDobbs, Michael
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed One Minute to Midnight: a sharply focused, riveting account--told from inside the White House--of the crucial months when the Watergate conspiracy consumed itself and brought down the president"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 DOBDobbs, Michael
Summary: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DOBRoper, Lyndal
Summary: "Examining the inner life of Martin Luther, the founding leader of the Reformation, the author reveals a literary genius who was full of contradictions and whose Ninety-Five Theses began the greatest upheaval and transformation of Christianity in history"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUTHER, MARTIN ROPRoundtree, Dovey Johnson
Summary: The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROUColes, Robert.
Summary: Capturing the courage of a little girl facing racism and hatred alone, the true story of Ruby Bridges reveals how she helped shape American history as the first African American child sent to first grade in a white school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BRIDGES COLTougias, Mike
Summary: "A riveting WWII account of survival at sea-Book 4 in the True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Kor, Eva Mozes
Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 KORVan Doren, Paul
Summary: "In the tradition of bestsellers such as Shoe Dog, Authentic is a surprisingly candid, compelling memoir by a high school dropout who went on to establish one of the world's most iconic brands. You may not know their creator, but you certainly know the shoes: for more than a generation, Vans shoes have been synonymous with cool. Now in this refreshingly candid memoir, meet Paul Van Doren, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN DOREN, PAUL VANColes, Robert.
Summary: "...Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership -- what it is, and how it is achieved -- through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others...."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 COLDownes, Robert.
Summary: More than a book about traveling around the world, Planet Backpacker is a celebration of the backpacking lifestyle enjoyed by an estimated 100,000 travelers at any given moment. The global journey packs everything from a love story to encounters with wild women and dangerous men, history, myth, humor, and thoughts on the traveling life. -Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 DOWNoyes, Deborah
Summary: "Before Amelia Earhart, there was Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to earn her living in the air. While no one knows the fate of Earhart, a terrified crowd of thousands looked on as French aeronaut Sophie Blanchard met her end in a tragic blaze of glory over the streets of Paris in 1819. But first, Blanchard made nearly 70 spectacular flights, survived a revolution, and become a court favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLANoyes, Deborah
Summary: Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Hodes, Martha Elizabeth.
Summary: Historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.846 HODRoundtree, Dovey Johnson
Summary: "In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROUNDTREE, DOVEY JOHNSON ROUColes, Robert.
Summary: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio BridgesGrumbach, Doris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1991