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Summary: "Wes Moore's remarkable bestseller The Other Wes Moore ends when Wes completes his journey from a fatherless delinquent to college graduate and heads off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. But what happens next? Next, he had to figure out the answer to the question: What is your work? More than finding a job, he had to find the work he was meant to do. For the next decade, Wes traced a path...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOOMoore, Michael Scott
Summary: "With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave,, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MOOMoore, Honor
Summary: "A daughter's memoir of her mother evolves beautifully into a narrative of the sweeping changes in women's lives in the twentieth century. Our Revolution, vivid and rich, reads like a nineteenth-century novel as we follow the love story of a woman and herfamily through the twentieth-century civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements. Born into Boston society in 1923, Jenny Moore rebelled by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MOOMoore, Wes
Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 MOOMoore, Thurston
Summary: Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds--the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. But more than anything, he wanted to make music--to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire. His dream came to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: The author tells of growing up in a female household with a fiercely loving mother and grandmother but spending summers with her divorced father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 CAMPinborough, Jan.
Summary: Examines the story of how librarian Ann Carroll Moore created the first children's room at the New York Public Library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOOMoore, Wayétu
Summary: "When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, WAYETU MOOMoore, Susanna
Summary: "A revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, SUSANNA MOOLerner, Gerda
Summary: "A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 LERMoore, Clayton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Pub. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, CLAYTON MOOMoore, Michael
Summary: Capturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, "Here Comes Trouble" takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners ride through the life and times of Michael Moore. No one will come away from this book without a sense of surprise about the Michael Moore most of us didn't know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, MICHAEL MOOMoore, Roger
Summary: "In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, he's an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he's also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of the nicest guys in the business, on and off the screen he has always been up for some fun. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Roman & Littlefield 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, ROGER MOOMoore, Roger
Summary: One of the most recognizable big-screen stars of the past half-century, Sir Roger Moore played the role of James Bond longer than any other actor, bringing his finely honed wit and wry charm to one of Hollywood's most beloved and long-lasting characters. Still, Bond was only one in a lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywood's studio era, and encompassing stardom in theater and television...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MOOMoore, Charlie
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1092 MOOMoore, Beth
Summary: "An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God's enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people's full stories...we'd all walk around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, a Tyndale nonfiction imprint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem MooreMoore, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 MOOMoore, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 263.041 MOOMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACKARD, E.P.W. MOOMoore, Judith
Summary: A memoir of one woman's obsession with food sets the author's love/hate relationship with food against her painful longing for a family, love, and a sense of belonging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.398 MOOMoore, Thurston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.6609 MOOMoore, Darnell L.
Summary: As a teenager, Moore was tall and awkward and constantly bullied for being gay. And one afternoon three boys from his neighborhood doused him with gasoline and tried lighting a match. What happens to the black boys who come of age in neglected, poor, heavily policed, and economically desperate cities that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created? It wasn't until Darnell was pushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books, an imprint of Perseus Books 2019