Nazer, Mende.
Summary: The author provides an account of her experiences after being kidnapped from her Nuba village in 1993 by Arab raiders when she was twelve years old and sold into slavery, and discusses how she was able to gain her freedom seven years later while living and working for her master's sister in London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 NAZMendel, Iuliia
Summary: "In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MENMendez, Jonna
Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MENDEZ MENMendez, Rob
Summary: Rob Mendez, who was born without limbs, shares his journey to first become independent and then to become a high school football coach in the Bay Area.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MENDEZ, ROB MENBoye, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.9 BOYSeldes, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 SELBender, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.4 BENWendel, Tim
Summary: "When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The author’s daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92Boo, Katherine.
Summary: Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 305.5 BOOLende, Heather
Summary: "Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENDE, HEATHER LENMendez, Antonio J.
Summary: A top CIA operative offers an authorized account of his double life as a Department of Defense bureaucrat and a globe-trotting spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MENGeddes, Gary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.04 GEDMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MENLudwig, Coy L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1973
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.092 LUDLende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 Lende 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LENLende, Heather
Contents: Grant us wisdom, grant us courage -- Be still my praying feet -- You do not know -- Namaste -- Take good care of the garden and the dogs -- All good gifts around us -- You are going to get well -- Good neighbors -- The comfort of eagles -- Snowshoeing with God : a playlist -- Passing the peace -- Muerte beach -- Amazing grace -- Preying together -- The music of what happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENDE, HEATHER LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem LendeMeade, Desmond
Summary: "Desmond Meade tells the story of his fight to pass Amendment 4 in Florida, which would restore voting rights to felons who have served their terms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.759 MEASpencer-Wendel, Susan
Summary: A moving and inspirational memoir by celebrated journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPENCER-WENDEL, SUSAN SPEDurán, Cristina
Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DURBender, Doug
Summary: From the influential and ever-growing movement "I Am Second" comes a remarkable collection of well-known lives transformed from restless to happy by the power of God. When I Am Second launched in 2008, the organization meant simply to tell stories of people whose lives changed utterly when they placed God first and themselves second. Although the organization has exploded in size and influence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 BENVarty, Boyd.
Summary: A tale of personal evolution set in the famous game reserve where Nelson Mandela recuperated after his release from prison describes how the author's visionary father transformed the region from a hunting safari into a model of present-day conservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VARTY, BOYD VARBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYMandel, Sarah
Summary: Discovering she had stage four breast cancer while pregnant with her second baby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, after receiving good news, was unable to celebrate due to being frozen in a dissociated state and used the "narrative therapy" she used with her patients to navigate her own trauma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDEL, SARAH MANSummary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021