Sharon, Gilad.
Summary: Written by his youngest son, a portrait of the former Israeli prime minister draws from diaries, day books, military directives, and correspondence to trace his evolution into one of the world's most powerful and influential figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARON, ARIEL SHAWesselman, Henry Barnard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.42 WESGillard, Julia
Summary: "In conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women, Women and Leadership explores gender bias and explores the barriers to women's participation in politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 GILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business GillardGidla, Sujatha
Summary: "The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GIDGirard, Anne.
Summary: "When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Girard 2014Ziyad, Hari
Summary: "An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛiṣhṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZIYAD, HARI ZIYRadner, Gilda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RADNER, GILDA RADBilas, Jay
Summary: The basketball player, coach, and ESPN analyst examines his life and career through the prism of toughness, which he explains comes from discipline, a team-oriented mind-set, and belief in oneself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILAS, JAY BILSattouf, Riad
Summary: "In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roofof his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 SATGirard, Joe.
Summary: "The world's greatest salesman" reveals the selling principles that have brought him to the top of his profession as he offers helpful advice on how to develop customer profiles, how to turn a prospect into a buyer, how to close the deal, and how to establish a long-term relationship with one's customers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.85 GIRMazzeo, Tilar J.
Summary: "In 1944, the war had reached its climax in continental Europe. News of secret diaries kept by Italy's former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women-a Fascist's daughter, aGerman spy, and an American socialite-risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 945.091 MAZCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.091 MAZMazzeo, Tilar J.
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton--Alexander Hamilton's devoted wife--in Lin-Manuel Miranda's phenomenal musical Hamilton. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ELIZA MAZMazzeo, Tilar J.
Summary: The "extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler--the "female Oskar Schindler"--who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MAZGuzmán, Lila
Summary: Examines the life and career of this talented Latino woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KAHLO GuzGuzman, Lila
Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the painter who used his murals to teach about Mexico's history and heroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB RIVERA GUZGirard, Hazel B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendon Pub. 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 GIRGuzmán, Lila
Summary: Describes the life of Ellen Ochoa and her drive to become an astronaut and travel into outerspace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB OCHOA GUZGilman, Dorothy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 GILWozniak, Steve
Summary: Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I. Widely affordable and easily...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WOZNIAK, STEVE WozGuzmán, Lila
Contents: Life in Puerto Rico -- Arriba! let's go -- Roberto helps the Pirates -- 1971 World Series -- Earthquake -- Timeline -- Words to know -- Learn more about Roberto Clemente (books and internet addresses) -- Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLEMENTE GuzWhittell, Giles.
Summary: Documents the stories of three men at the center of a legendary first prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and America, describing the chance events that contributed to their captures and rescues and their indirect contributions to triggering the arms race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 WHIDarby, Giles
Summary: This is the memoir of Giles Darby, a British banker jailed in 2008 for his involvement in a $7m fraud against his employer, NatWest. Giles and his co-defendants, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew, became the subject of extensive media coverage when the US government demanded their extradition in relation to the collapse of the energy giant Enron. The NatWest Three, as they came to be known,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quiller Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6092 DARGiles, Nyna
Summary: Gile's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices; she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side. As Nyna grew up, her mother became more and more distant. Carolyn Scott Reybold had been a model in 1947, a friend of Grace Kelly, and even a bridesmaid at her wedding. How had that confident, glamorous woman become the mother Giles knew growing up-- the mother who was now living in a...
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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 GILES, NYNA GILMilton, Giles.
Summary: The biography of Wolfram Aichele, the author's father-in-law, which tells of his childhood in Germany as Hitler came to power, and his experiences in Hitler's army on the Russian front and on the beaches of Normandy through the fall of Hitler's regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011