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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.54 JAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FROSTIC, GWEN JAM1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 811.54 JAM
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local FrosticShesol, Jeff
Summary: Drawing on new archival sources, Jeff Shesol re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.45 SHEEames, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 EAMShesol, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHETippins, Sherill.
Summary: "An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.94 TIPSherpa, Caryl.
Summary: "I taste fire, earth, rain... takes the reader into the remote places of Nepal, with glimpses of Sherpa culture and traditions. This book will enthrall everyone with its unique journey through a life with a Sherpa and rare insights into the Himalaya region"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 SHEJakes, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Stories of women who have triumphed through their faith in Jesus Christ. Some are women of the Bible; some are the seemingly ordinary women who fill our lives."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Faith 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.843 JAKDavis, Camas
Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAVEaves, Elisabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 EAVJaher, David
Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGERY JAHJukes, Helen
Summary: "Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected and trapped by her office job. Then, for good luck, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good fortune, and the author embarks on an emotional, rewarding journey during the course of a year as she cares for these wondrous beings and learns the art of beekeeping." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUKES, HELEN JUKHumes, James C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HUMShere, Jeremy.
Summary: An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 SHEJahns, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JAHHamer, Marc
Summary: "For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights From the acclaimed author of How to Catch a Mole, this meditative memoir explores the wisdom of plants, the joys of manual labor, and the natural cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden's life and our own. Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMER, MARC HAMSherr, Lynn.
Summary: The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIDE, SALLY SHESherr, Lynn
Summary: The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite. This is a rich portrait of a fascinating woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America. Warm and admiring but unsparing, it makes this extraordinarily talented and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RIDE, SALLY SHECalmes, Jackie
Summary: An award-winning investigative journalist presents an account of the life and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, featuring interviews with his accusers and evidence of his deceptions amongst the Republican Party's drive toward the far right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 CALGordon, Meryl.
Summary: Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE GORHumes, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 HUMRodriguez, Janel
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 RODJames, Jamie.
Summary: Traces the life and death of Joe Slowinski, a renowned herpetologist who had been a foremost expert on Asia's venomous snakes, in a profile that documents his work and the final hours of his life after he had been bitten by a krait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 JAMRose, Jalen
Summary: No topic is off limits as Rose discusses growing up in Detroit in the 70s and 80s.; being the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary "Fab Five" at the University of Michigan; and his 13-year NBA career. And certainly not as a commentator and analyst on ABC/ESPN and Grantland. His colorful collection of stories and opinions about basketball and life gives people the kind of insight and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSE, JALEN ROSDiamond, Cheryl
Summary: "In this memoir that spans dozens of countries worldwide, a young girl and her family adopt one new identity after another and run from both the law and the secrets that will eventually catch up to all of them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021