Summary: "In a collection of more than 150 original pieces created by members of POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the Club around the country, high-school students express their sorrow, confusion, anger, bewilderment, hopes, and dreams through poetry, essays, haiku, rap lyrics, drawings, paintings, photos, and collages. They tell stories that reflect different circumstances and experiences, but all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Out of the Woods Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.8 DREWalters, Wendy S.
Summary: "I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it." In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 WALNikola-Lisa, W.
Summary: A little girl runs through the park noting differences between people, but surmising that we are all the same. "Straight hair, curly hair - different but the same!" "Big nose, little nose. Light skin, dark skin - different but the same!" Even with our differences, she chants, "Isn't it delightful bein' with you this way?" This poem reflects a perfect sentiment for our children living in this...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG NIKSummary: From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MBASummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESNabhan, Gary Paul.
Summary: The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.632 NABSummary: A compilation of essays on claiming control of your life, whether it's reducing clutter in your home or learning to say "no" without guilt. The authors share the fulfillment that comes from focusing on what matters most in your life-- your family, your friends, and even your self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CHIConroy, Pat
Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 CONMiller, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MillerBaker, Donna S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738 BakerRothschild, Hannah
Summary: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSummary: "Sixth sense, gut feeling, instinct. Whatever you call it, sometimes we have no logical reason for knowing something--but still we know it. In this collection, you’ll read 101 stories of intuition, insight, and inspiration that will amaze you and encourage you tap into your own inner wisdom. We all have the ability to tap into our intuition, but often find it hard to do. Dreams and premonitions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.8 CHISummary: "Do you ever say that you'll take care of yourself after you finish your to-do list? The personal, revealing stories in this book will convince you to put yourself at the top of that list. Self-care and life balance are what we all neglect most. These 101 true stories will show you how to take care of your physical and mental health. You'll be inspired by other people who have taken back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 CHISummary: The annual that has included the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Max Allan Collins is back with another array of traditional mysteries and tales of crime and suspense from its usual roster of luminaries. Besides presenting twenty of the year's finest crime and mystery stories, from Sharan Newman and James W. Hall to Anne Perry and Jeffery Deaver, The Deadly Bride is also the only annual to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEASummary: "This explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality. An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 IReader's Digest (COR)
Summary: "Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they are drawn into the dramatic tales of everyday people suddenly cast into lifeor death situations. Editors have mined the Reader's Digest archives to bring readers Alive! Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 ALISummary: "This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab. From a military base in the Gulf to loving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saqi Books 2022