Kassinger, Ruth
Summary: "A witty and engaging history of the first botanists, interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the labIn Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounts with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing the lessons that she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating personal crisis. In A Garden of Marvels, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 KASBissinger, Buzz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers the epic and fascinating story Philadelphia's Mayor Rendell, who will do anything to save a city on the brink of collapse. 21 photos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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Summary: "The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography. Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ESSKissinger, Henry
Summary: Drawing on his deep study of history as well as his distinguished career in government, the consummate diplomat and statesman studies six impactful leaders in modern history, including Anwar Sadat, Margaret Thatcher, and Lee Kuan Yew, revealing the masterful strategies and leadership of these great geopolitical minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 KISKissinger, Meg
Summary: "From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KISBasinger, Jeanine.
Summary: Film studies authority Basinger gives us an entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios manufactured star actors and actresses. She shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us the "human factor," case studies focusing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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Summary: "When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War BissingerRush, Andre
Summary: "What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022
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Summary: "America's best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here she shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African-Americans in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB TRUTH ADLBissinger, H. G.
Summary: The author recounts a father-son road trip during which he gained insight into the worldviews, challenges, and talents of his socially challenged savant son, Zach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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Summary: "A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RAUAlexander, Larry
Summary: Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers, an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company, 101st Airborne, during World War II. Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sergeant Forrest Guth, Alexander crosses an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ALERush, Bobby
Summary: "Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1999
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Summary: Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7441 HALButz, Bob
Summary: "How does a man reconcile a passion for woods and waters with a love for family, community, and home? In this collection of insights and essays, Bob Butz finds the answers don't come easy or without a laugh. Butz is a young man seeking balance. As a boy, while others were dreaming of football fields and baseball diamonds, he was knee-deep in a neighborhood creek or off hiding in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Huron River Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 BUTZ, BOB BUTGrush, Loren
Summary: "When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 GRURoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018