Hainey, Michael
Summary: Traces the author's investigation into the mystery of his father's sudden death, describing his father's achievements as a reporter, inconsistencies in his father's medical records, and the honor code of secrecy that challenged his research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAINEY, BOB HAIMurray, Pauli
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURRAY, PAULI MURHanel, Rachael.
Contents: We'll be the last ones to let you down -- Digger O'Dell -- In the midst of life we are in death -- Stormy weather -- Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints -- Break the plow -- As you think, you travel -- When beauty dies -- A gossamer world -- Helter skelter -- Opening night -- The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away -- What was left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANEL, RACHAEL HANHeaney, Katie
Summary: "When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl. Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing at the age of twenty-eight that she is gay. In these poignant, funny essays, she wrestles with her shifting sexuality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEANEY, KATIE HEAPauls, Cole
Summary: "Cole Pauls returns with Kwändǖr, a short story collection of Southern Tutchone and Yukon tales. Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are Pauls's most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices. Have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PAULaney, Lewis
Summary: A fun and fascinating compendium of LGBTQ+ icons, one for every day of the year, and a celebration of queer history - or as RuPaul would say; Herstory! Discover your queer hero and learn something new every day with 365 Gays of the Year, an accessible and fun introduction to LGBTQ+ history through the people that made it. Carefully curated and thoughtfully researched, author Lewis Laney assigns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Lion Publishing 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHANEL, COCO CHAKwak, Chaney
Summary: "In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 KWAHaley, Nikki
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, Nikki Haley's sharply intimate and inspirational book celebrates the world's most iconic women leaders. "If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." --Margaret Thatcher. In the spirit of Thatcher's quote, Ambassador Nikki R. Haley offers inspiring examples of women who worked against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.082 HALLevy, Janey
Summary: Mount Vernon, George Washingtons residence, holds a special place in US history and in the hearts of many Americans. But its history of slavery has remained largely hidden until recently. Thats because its difficult to accept the contradiction of a Founding Father who fought for liberty, but engaged in the practice of slavery. This thought-provoking volume uses the discoveries of archaeologists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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Summary: "A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused"), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America's interests as our Ambassador to the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALEY, NIKKI HALGirma, Haben
Summary: Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with Ethiopia. Their refugee story inspired her to embark on a quest for knowledge, traveling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GIRMA GIRDanby, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 769.31 DANPorizkova, Paulina
Summary: "Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORIZKOVA, PAULINA PORCanedy, Dana.
Summary: In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fianc,̌ a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KINFalla, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGregor Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.91 FALPauley, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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Summary: "A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of culinary legend Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and figuring out who you are"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SINHafner, Katie.
Summary: A health and technology journalist documents her efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAFNER, KATIE HAFSpelling, Candy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 209.2 DARPoundstone, Paula.
Summary: Blending elements of memoir and monologue, the comedian offers a candid account of her life, using details from the lives of legendary historical figures to illuminate episodes from her own life and reflect on her own successes and failures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 792.7 PouYoo, Paula
Summary: Based on 100+ personal interviews as seen through the eyes and experiences of those who were there, this compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles' 1992 uprising, which erupted in violence, discusses its impact on Korean and Black American communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2020