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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.2 KOOLooser, Devoney
Summary: "Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters--exact contemporaries of Jane Austen--were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published twenty-six books and achieved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOOBruschi, Tedy.
Summary: "You might be coming to this book as a fan of Tedy's football skills and, don't get me wrong, gaining the insights of one of the best defenders in Patriots history is worth the price of admission, but that's just part of the story. There are a lot of reasons to look up to him, and I promise you will finish this book with an admiration for him on a much deeper level."--Tom Brady (from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 BruscKobler, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 KOBMoorer, Allison
Summary: Moorer turns her lyrical storytelling powers to recount the events leading up to the moment that forever altered her own life and that of her older sister, Shelby, with whom she shares an unbreakable bond. Gorgeously written, this work delves into the meaning of inheritance and destiny, shame, and trauma--and how it is possible to carve out a safe place in the world despite it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORER, ALLISON MOOProser, Jim
Summary: "When General James Mattis took command of the First Division in 2000, he took for their motto a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla: "No better friend, no worse enemy." In 2003, General James N. Mattis shared a "Message to All Hands," to his soldiers. He shared with them the importance of the mission, the goal to act with honor, and ended with the motto he brought to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATTIS, JAMES PROTec, Nechama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 TECRosser, Kareem
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSSER, KAREEM ROSKohler, Sheila
Summary: "A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOHLER, SHEILA KOHKotler, Steven
Summary: "While dog rescue is one of the largest underground movements in America, it is also one of the least understood. This insider look at the cult and culture of dog rescue" weaves personal experience, cultural investigation, and scientific inquiry as it explores "what it means to devote one's life to the furry and the four-legged."--Dust jacket. The author chronicles his adventures at Rancho de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 KOTKotler, Steven
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOTLER, STEVEN KOTMoorer, Allison
Summary: "Grammy-nominated musician Allison Moorer's lyrical memoir, a testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, John Henry, who has nonverbal autism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORER, ALLISON MOOBooker T.
Summary: "The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOOKER T. BOOBooker, Sheri
Summary: "Six Feet Under" meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in Baltimore. Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOOKER, SHERI BOOPerl, Jed
Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERPerl, Jed
Summary: "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERConover, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Departures 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.568 CONMcClelland, Ted.
Summary: Looks at the boom and bust of America's upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, tracing its role as a leader in manufacturing, the forces that shaped it, and the innovations and industrial fallouts that brought about its downfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 MCCMcClelland, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClellandKaiser, Charles.
Summary: This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KAIMoser, Benjamin
Summary: "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONTAG, SUSAN MOSConover, Ted.
Summary: A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.1 CONGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPJackson, Ted
Summary: "The heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the transformative friendship binding a fallen-from-grace NFL player and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who meet on the streets of New Orleans, offering a rare glimpse into the precarious world of homelessness and the lingering impact of systemic racism and poverty on the lives of NOLA's citizens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020