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Summary: In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, LAURA BELClegg, Bill.
Summary: In this stark memoir, a follow-up to Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, literary agent and author Clegg describes his struggle to stay clean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R CleggDeLucie, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 DELGilbert-Lurie, Leslie.
Contents: In Mom's voice (1937-1960). Childhood, interrupted ; Stashik is coming ; Safe for the moment ; Where is God? ; Far from normal ; Good-bye, Urzejowice ; Una situazione molto grave ; A taste of freedom ; The greenhorns ; But we just got used to it here ; Utterly demoralized ; I might even marry him ; A wonderful mother -- My own voice (1960-1997). On my watch ; Bread crumbs ; Magical distractions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GILGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: The bestselling author's sequel to "The Hungry Ocean" is a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey, "Seaworthy" is Greenlaw's compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her true self between land and water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 GREPol, Jan
Summary: "The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's more than 20,000 patients...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B POL POLWeiss, Miranda.
Summary: A tribute to the natural beauty of Alaska and the survival skills of its native residents describes how the author and her boyfriend relocated from an east-coast suburb to the extreme climates of Alaska's country, where harsh conditions forced them to acquire essential understandings about the weather, water, and fishing season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISS, MIRANDA WeissWoods, Vanessa
Summary: Traces how a Discovery Channel writer and her scientist fianc šettled in a Bonobo sanctuary in war-torn Congo, where their research enabled greater understanding of the characteristics and largely peaceful culture of the rare ape that shares 98.7 percent of human DNA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 WOODruckerman, Pamela
Summary: Author Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA DRUGreenfeld, Karl Taro
Summary: A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGREHitchens, Christopher.
Summary: "The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER HITMcClure, Tori Murden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCLURE, TORI MCCSavage, Roz
Summary: Offers an inspirational story of how one woman traded an unhappy job and marriage for a 103-day solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, powered only by muscle, grit, and determination, in an account by the first woman to ever row from California to Hawaii.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAVAGE, ROZ SAVSilver, Charlotte.
Summary: Infectious, charming, and at times wistful, Charlotte au Chocolat is a celebration of the magic of a beautiful presentation and the virtues of good manners, as well as a loving tribute to the author's mother-a woman who always showed her best face to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SILBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.509 BOUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BOUKatz, Evan Ross
Summary: "The oral history and exploration of the cultural impact of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the classic, ground-breaking television show still adored by fans old and new, from pop culture critic and nearly lifelong devotee of the show Evan Ross Katz, social media's foremost Sarah Michelle Gellar historian"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 KATKennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore)
Summary: In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, elected to the Senate in 1962 tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. He discusses his distinguished career, his relationships with his brothers John and Robert Kennedy, and the tragedies that have befallen his family over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD KennedyKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBRoss, Tracy.
Summary: The author explains how her love for the outdoors--and her journeys to natural landscapes in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska--became her only source of redemption after suffering sexual abuse from her stepfather for more than six years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSS, TRACY ROSSSales, Nancy Jo
Summary: "A raw and funny memoir about love and sex in the digital age intertwined with a brilliant and original investigative deep-dive from the New York Times bestselling author of American Girls, Nancy Jo Sales, which explores our epidemic addiction to dating apps and exposes how Big Dating disrupts romance in the modern world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALES, NANCY JO SALSarah
Summary: The author documents a low period in her life and how she found strength in her struggles with adversity and eventually regained her sense of purpose for her life with the help of friends and several celebrity experts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK SARWallace, Danny.
Summary: As he nears 30, Wallace can't help wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a long-forgotten address book. Acting on impulse, the author travels the world, risking rejection and ridicule, to show up on his old buddies' doorsteps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WALWilson, Jo Anne S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafford 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, JO ANNE S WILBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010