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26 Fairmount Avenue bookGreenfeld, Karl Taro
Summary: A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGRESt. John, Lauren
Summary: Traces the author's coming-of-age in civil-war-torn Rhodesia, where her family settled after purchasing the farm of a brutally murdered family, detailing a youth marked by terrorism, dangerous wild animals, and the author's embittered realization that everyone she knew was on the wrong side of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ST. JOHN, LAUREN STFarr, Sidney Saylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.953 FARR, SIDNEY FARSt. John, Lauren
Summary: In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, 11-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in motion that will change her life irrevocably....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.91 STKarr, Mary.
Summary: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.54 KARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARR, MARY KARKnausgaard, Karl Ove
Summary: The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons. 2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours. What you will dream of tonight, no one will ever know. Even if you were to remember it when you wake up, you wouldn't have a language in which to communicate it to us,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE KNAAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ATKKarr, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 KARSwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWAMarx, Harpo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bookroom 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 MARSalerni, Dianne K.
Summary: In this alternate version of 1898 New York City, where ghosts are common household nuisances, young Eleanor and Alice Roosevelt battle the fierce spirits that are threatening their family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SALGourley, Robbin.
Summary: From the whippoorwill's call on the first day of spring through the first snowfall, Edna and members of her family gather fruits, berries, and vegetables from the fields, garden, and orchard on their Virginia farm and turn them into wonderful meals. Includes facts about the life of Edna Lewis, a descendant of slaves who grew up to be a famous chef, and five recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE GouHobbie, Holly.
Summary: When Holly's family moves from the city to a farm, she longs to get a horse for her birthday. Based on events in the author's childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOBReel, Monte
Summary: In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARRChadwick, Elizabeth.
Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAWright, Gary A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.411 WRIGHFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, NICOLA FULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Biography, Call number: 921 Fuller 2011Fuller, Alexandra
Summary: This engaging follow-up explores Fuller's parents' childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple's experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same sharply etched narrative that has earned the author such immense praise, Fuller expands on and offers new insights into her family's remarkable trials and successes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 FULLER, NICOLA FulNorth, Sterling
Summary: The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD NORFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, NICOLA FulVan Es, Bart
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents. Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VAN ES VANDePaola, Tomie
Summary: Author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school in 1941 when he was a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction DePaola 2003Sams, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1995