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Publisher / Publication Date: H. N. Abrams 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 FINFinet, Nicolas
Summary: A biography in comics of rock singer Janis Joplin, featuring highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. There, she abandons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOPLIN, JANIS FINFinck, Liana
Summary: "How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Traces the author's battle with Asperger Syndrome, describing his adult diagnosis and the painstaking and often whimsical exercises he uses to preserve his family and build social skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, DAVID FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation FinchNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: A memoir of Bich Nguyen and her journey to become a "real" American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: "From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUFinck, Liana
Summary: "Passing for Human is what Finck calls 'a neurological coming-of-age story,' one in which, through her childhood, human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother was an artist whose creative life had been stifled by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN WOLNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: "A writer and literary critic's diary of the year 2020, beginning with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and spanning the protests for racial justice and the chaos of the U.S. presidential election"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 FINFitch, Noel Riley.
Summary: Describes the life and career of the French chef and television personality, from her wealthy childhood in California and married years in France to her successful cooking show in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHILD, JULIA FITFischl, Eric
Summary: Traces the American artist's struggle to find his way during a period when his style was contrary to fashion, his relationship with his alcoholic mother, his struggles with addiction, and his interactions with such contemporaries as Julian Schnabel and David Salle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISCHL, ERIC FISFinch, Jamie Lee
Summary: "Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch's "You Are Your Own" offers an overview of Evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Jamie Lee Finch] 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 FINBrown, Dinah
Summary: Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET YOUSAFZAIDench, Judi
Summary: "Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the playsand tales of our beloved Shakespeare. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A memoir of the author's life spent in the company of animals illuminates the universal experiences of loving, healing and losing beloved pets, describing some of the remarkable cases that shaped her career while sharing a veterinarian's perspectives into the many ways that animals change our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINJohnson, Dinah
Summary: "A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WELBirch, Beverley.
Summary: Follows the life of the statesman who was a key figure in India's fight for independence from Great Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens Children's Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GANDHI BIRClinch, Shasta
Summary: "An illustrated biography of Vice President Kamala Harris"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CLIFinke, Michael C.
Summary: "Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure, far beyond the Russian context, as outstanding modern literary models. In a brief, remarkable life, Chekhov rose from lower-class, provincial roots to become a physician, leading writer, and philanthropist, all in the face of a progressive fatal disease. In this new biography, Michael C. Finke analyzes Chekhov's major stories, plays, and nonfiction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHEKHOV, ANTON FINKverneland, Steffen
Summary: "An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream.' Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter -- anguished, starving and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KVESingh, Simran Jeet
Summary: "The inspiring true story of Fauja Singh, who broke world records to become the first one hundred-year-old to run a marathon, shares valuable lessons on the source of his grit, determination to overcome obstacles, and commitment to positive representation of the Sikh community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAUPunch, Terrence M.
Summary: Based on materials found in the Nova Scotia Archives and the Public Archives of New Brunswick, among others, Terrence Punch presents a series devoted to Scottish immigrants. In records ranging from newspaper announcements of marriages and deaths to cemetery records and censuses, and from rare passenger lists to probate records, this unique collection of fugitive records on Scottish immigrants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2011
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3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3411 Punch VOL. ICall number: R GEN 929.3411 Punch VOL. II
Call number: R GEN 929.3411 Punch VOL. III