Holt, Nathalia
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 HOLCarville, James.
Summary: "For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair : Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin take a look at how they--and America--have changed in the last two decades. If nothing else, this new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARVILLE, JAMES & MATALIN, MARY CARHolt, Nathalia
Summary: From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations. From Snow White to Moana, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain HoltKarikó, Katalin
Summary: "A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARIKO, KATALIN KARLavin, Talia
Summary: The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 LAVDadey, Debbie
Summary: "Growing up in a small Hungarian town, Kati Karikó was curious about everything. As an adult, she channeled her curiosity into her work as a scientist. An mRNA vaccine had never been made before, and she faced frequent criticism and was told by other scientists she would never succeed. After many years of hard work and dedication, she figured out how to use mRNA to make a vaccine--and when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KARGoldberg, Natalie.
Summary: A collection of essays on life as a writer urges aspirants to the craft to take chances, learn self-acceptance, and make a daily commitment to writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 GoldbBober, Natalie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.4 BOBTyler, Natalie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: "In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BASHoyt, Megan
Summary: When she was young, Katalin Karik decided she would study science--even though she had never even met a scientist! But she was determined to learn as much as she could about the human body, and once she made a decision, she stuck with it. Katalin had to learn English while attending university, but she worked hard until she became a doctor. After facing many challenges, including lack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KARLance, Natasha
Summary: "Muppets In Moscow reveals how-in between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow-a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communistera"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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Summary: The stand-up comedian presents a funny collection of essays on being a mom that explores themes like "geriatric" motherhood, parenting in an environmental panic, fear and love, and conflicting advice on raising children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 LEGGoldberg, Natalie
Summary: "A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen."--Amazon.com. When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDBERG, NATALIE GOLGoldberg, Natalie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDBERG, NATALIE GOLLawyer, Natasha
Summary: "Find inspiration and step-by-step instructions in Tin Can Homestead, the ultimate guide to living small in your own Airstream paradise."--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 LAWPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING PINAikens-Nuñez, Talia
Summary: "Learn about Puerto Rico's 65th Regiment, one of the US Army's most decorated regiments. Author Talia Aikens-Nuñez shares the history of these soldiers and the discrimination they faced as they served their country during the largest court martial of the Korean War"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 951.904 AIKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 951.904 AIKBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "On November 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out on the trip of a lifetime. Equipped with just one small bag of necessities, she planned to circle the globe in a mere 75 days. In a time of steamships, locomotives, and horse-drawn carriages, few thought she could do it. But bravery and determination carried her through. How did Bly complete her historic journey, and what is its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLYWagner, Natasha Gregson
Summary: Wagner's mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a legendary movie star. She and Natasha's stepfather, actor Robert Wagner, were a Hollywood it-couple. But Natalie's sudden death by drowning off Catalina Island at the age of forty-three devastated her family, made her stepfather a person of interest, and turned a vibrant wife, mother, and actress into a tragic figure. Here Wagner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WOOD WAGPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: "Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington. And she traveled the world, too!" -- Book Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JACDavis, Natalie Zemon
Summary: Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEO AFRICANUS DAVTrethewey, Natasha D.
Summary: "A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy."--Dust jacket. At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TRETHEWAY TRENaman, Christine Pisera
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021