Lawton, Georgina
Summary: Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perenial 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAWTON, GEORGINA LAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAWTON LAWHowell, Georgina
Summary: She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, GERTRUDE HOWReid, Georgina
Summary: From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.022 REIPazcoguin, Georgina
Summary: "Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet-the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the orchestra circle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAZCOGUIN, GEORGINA PAZHardin, David
Contents: The daughter of the confederacy : Winnie Davis -- The conqueror's son : Tom Sherman -- The general's last battle : Ulysses S. Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US HardinHarding, Debora
Summary: "For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDING, DEBORA HARMardini, Yusra
Summary: Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARDINI, YUSRA MARBrown, Tami Lewis
Summary: "...a... picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARBalding, Clare.
Summary: "Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen. She and her younger brother came very low down the pecking order. Left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALDING, CLARE BALHarding, Stephen
Summary: The story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, marooned on a South Pacific island, and his one-man war against Japanese forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 TODD, SWEENEY HAIHarding, Ian
Summary: "A funny and insightful window into the life of a TV star. Ian Harding is an actor and 7-time Teen Choice Award Winner on Freeform's (formerly known as ABC Family) most-watched series of all time, Pretty Little Liars. An avid birdwatcher, Ian explores his life in Hollywood through the lens of his favorite pastime in this collection of personal stories. Featuring humorous and adventurous stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDING, IAN HARDarling, Lynn.
Summary: "Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When hercollege-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARLING, LYNN DARHarding, Andrew.
Summary: "In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud 'Tarzan' Nur--an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist. When the country collapsed into civil war and anarchy, Tarzan and his young family became part of an exodus,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NUR HARDINGHarding, Kate
Summary: From A to Z, this work covers the spectrum of defining the woman in contemporary society, and includes short bios of famous and influential women plus cultural terminology, concepts, and the gamut of interests pertaining to womanhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 HARHarding, Luke
Summary: On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death was Polonium--a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. This is the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko. And it is the story of the aftermath: a decade of geopolitical disruptions still felt today. In A Very Expensive Poison,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HARHarding, Luke
Summary: "In a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe--and the world--Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports firsthand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When, just before dawn on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a series of brutal attacks, Harding was there, on the ground in Kyiv. But this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2022
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Summary: Discusses the infamous intelligence breach brought about by Edward Snowden, including the dangers of global monitoring, how Snowden managed to leave the country with a hard drive full of secrets, and his battle for asylum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.1202 HARDarling, Ian
Summary: "These true stories of courage reveal how fliers bravely helped win World War II."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.544 DARBurgess, Matthew
Summary: Truly devoted to the idea of public art, Haring created murals wherever he went. Often seen drawing in white chalk on the matte black paper of unused advertising space in the subway, Haring's iconic pop art and graffiti-like style transformed the New York City underground in the 1980s. A member of the LGBTQ community, Haring died tragically at the age of thirty-one from AIDS-related...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was stationed on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, DONALD HARWebber, Georgia
Summary: "Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 WEBHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HARHarden, Blaine.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012