Lawton, Georgina
Summary: Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perenial 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAWTON LAWHowell, Georgina
Summary: She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, GERTRUDE HOWReid, Georgina
Summary: From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.022 REIPazcoguin, Georgina
Summary: "Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet-the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the orchestra circle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAZCOGUIN, GEORGINA PAZMcCartney, Laton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 978 MCCMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARLançon, Philippe
Summary: "Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe Lançon, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCON, PHILIPPE LANMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.78 DUNLipton, James.
Summary: A behind-the-scenes tour of the making of the television show "Inside the Actors Studio" describes the host and author's experiences during noteworthy interviews, including Christopher Reeve's first appearance after his accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 LIPStrachey, Lytton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.081 STRCatton, Bruce
Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CATLandon, Margaret
Summary: The story of an English governess at the court of King Mongkut of Siam, in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONOWENS, ANNA LANLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 SARLaymon, Kiese
Summary: "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAYMON, KIESE LAYLaymon, Kiese
Summary: "A collection of essays on family, race, violence, celebrity, music, writing, and other topics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAYMON, KIESE LAYMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MARLawson, Guy.
Summary: Traces the story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the manhunt for founder Sam Israel, who bet his final millions on a federal-run "secret market" society of clandestine bankers, shady European nobles, and spies tied to a mysterious cabal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.65 ISRAEL, SAMUEL LAWLawson, Shayla
Summary: "Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: "Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 WEBRawson, Kerri
Summary: What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KERRI RAWSON RAWEaston, Marilyn
Summary: "Make yourself heard--on and off the bench. Whether you spend your days arguing your case at work, fighting gender discrimination, or raising the next generation of dissenters, call an adjournment and ask yourself, "What would RBG do?" Grab your collar and get motivated to change the world with words of inspirational wit and wisdom from Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"--Back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 EASLawlor, Laurie.
Summary: Profiles six women scientists who persevered in the face of prejudice, including ichthyologist Eugenie Clark and mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2017