Berkowitz, Aaron
Summary: "In the tradition of Tracy Kidder's portrait of Paul Farmer's work in MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, the story of a young neurologist's struggles over who and how to help patients in Haiti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERKOWITZ, AARON BERHazareesingh, Sudhir
Summary: "A biography of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE HAZBell, Madison Smartt.
Summary: Presents a biography of Toussaint Louverture that captures the frequently contradictory and complex life of the leader of the late-eighteenth-century Haitian Revolution that became the only successful slave revolt in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 BELJones, Arthur
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 JONAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem AlbomDiederich, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 DIEFales-Hill, Susan.
Summary: The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 FALAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: The popular author talks about three of her most personal relationships--with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALVAREZ, JULIA ALVBeauvais, Garcelle
Summary: This is model, actress, and Black pop culture icon Garcelle Beauvais' smart, inspiring, and raw memoir - an entertaining and unforgettable emotional rollercoaster ride that moves from her birth and early childhood in Haiti to her adolescence in Boston and the many ups, downs, and then more ups, both personal and professional, she experienced in her three-decade acting career. Beauvais dishes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEAUVAIS, GARCELLE BEAFaulkner, Harris
Summary: "From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection. From the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, believers testify to how God inspired hope even when all seemed lost."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox News Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.3 FAUShaw, Philip.
Summary: Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), "Horses "belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While "Horses "pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent New York punk scene, the book's core lies in a detailed analysis of Patti Smith's lyrics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 SHASachs, Dana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SACLahidji, Changiz
Summary: Over 100 combat missions, 24 years as a Green Beret--Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam. Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Muslim Green Beret....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAHIDJI LAHFriedman, Matti
Summary: "Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, MATTI FRIBrown-Waite, Eve.
Summary: Follows the author's journey from being a self-described "pampered city girl" to a Peace Corps volunteer, wife, and mother living in Ecuador and Uganda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009