Ray, Mary Lyn

Summary: "A picture book biography of the four Moody sisters who designed and built fairy tale-like cottages in Santa Barbara in the 1930s and 1940s"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAY

Walsh, Barbara (Barbara Ann)

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Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.807 WALSH, BARBARA WAL

Summary: U.S. health care has changed dramatically during the past century. A new breed of physicians use new machines, vaccines, and ideas in ways that have touched the lives of virtually everyone. How and why did these changes occur?

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.774 MED

Larkin, Deborah Holt

Summary: "Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother in-law--a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman--had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LAR

Becker, Barbara (Barbara Anne)

Summary: ""We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love," Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir Heartwood. When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? With a keen eye towards that which makes life worth living,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 BEC

Howe, Matt

Summary: "On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one of the two or three best voices in the world of singing songs," adding "It's not just her voice but her intensity, her passion and control."...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fayetteville Mafia Press 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STREISAND HOWE

Stobart, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1985

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.2 STO

Polacco, Patricia.

Summary: Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. Through the fierce Michigan thunderstorms and the snowy blizzards. Through parties, weddings, and the deaths of old friends. Now, when Mary Ellen's daughter Trisha needs Betty Doll most, she opens a package and rediscovers the sweet old doll, along with a letter written by her mother right before she died. In it, her mother tells the story...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAR

Larson, Thomas

Summary: When Barber was 28, his Adagio for Strings was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Toscanini in 1938.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.8 LAR

Kanefield, Teri

Summary: Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POWELL KAN

Lipska, Barbara K.

Summary: "As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIPSKA, BARBARA K. LIP

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LIPSKA LIP

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

Summary: "American artist, poet, and novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939), has had an unusually varied and highly successful career across genres and media. As a poet, her work was edited by Toni Morrison and she is a recipient of the Carl Sandburg Prize. As a fiction writer, she was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her first historical novel, Sally Hemings (1979) was a bestseller. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 921 CHASE-RIBOUD, BARBARA CHA

Bidlack, Russell E. (Russell Eugene)

Summary: Details the life of Ann I. Allen, Ann Arbor's first lady.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLEN, ANN I. BID

Ascher, Barbara Lazear

Summary: "Ascher writes passionately about her unlikely marriage, her husband's illness and death and her ensuing sorrow. A witness to the insanity that grief visits upon its victims with a seeming determination to destroy, she gazes straight into the eye of grief and does not blink. In time she moves beyond that grief -- her voyage out. Ghosting is, by turns, moving and funny, tender and brutal"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASCHER, BARBARA LAZEAR ASC

Page, Susan

Summary: Former First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures. Here Page tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies-- and an entire political era. As first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, Barbara Bush became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist, invested herself deeply in expanding...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, BARBARA PAG

Mann, William J.

Summary: Traces the formative years of the actress and singer, discussing such topics as her relationship with her mother, her marriage to Elliott Gould, and the making of "Funny Girl" against a backdrop of the birth of off-off-Broadway.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREISAND, BARBRA MAN

Ocejo, Richard E

Summary: " In today's new economy--in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based--many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 OCE

Ableman, Michael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 ABL

Price, Planaria J

Summary: Documents the story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding in plain sight, describing how she used her blonde hair and other Aryan features to assume a new identity and pass herself off as a non-Jewish woman.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 PRI

Streisand, Barbra

Summary: "The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STR

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREISAND, BARBRA STR
2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STREISAND STR

Brown, T. Scott (Timothy Scott)

Summary: "A memoir, a coming of age story, an exploration of father-son relationships, a social history, and a how-to-succeed-in-business book in one page-turning tome. Tim Brown writes about a unique time and place in Michigan lore, but his is a quintessential American story. It vividly and touchingly portrays a young man trying to wrest respect from his stern father, make his way in the world and find...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, T. SCOTT BRO

Favreau, Marc

Summary: "The attack on Pearl Harbor unfolds through the actions and perspectives of American, Japanese, and Hawaiian leaders, soldiers, sailors, nurses, and civilians"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 FAV

Marcovitz, Hal.

Summary: Tells the story of the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, beginning in 1510 when he snuck on board a ship bound for Central America, through his discovery, for Spain, of the South Sea, now known as the Pacific Ocean.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BALBOA MAR