Demi
Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANDemi.
Summary: A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TERRuPaul
Summary: From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUPDemi.
Summary: Presents an illustrated biography of Joan of Arc, from her early vision of Archangel Michael to her military victories, and eventual execution at the stake for heresy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOADemi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DALDemi.
Summary: Shares the story of the son of a rich merchant, who abandoned all his worldly goods in order to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 DEMDemi.
Summary: Recounts pivotal events in the history and life of Saint Nicholas, including how he came to be associated with Christmas and Santa Claus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday DemiDemi.
Summary: Describes the life and journeys of the Italian trader who became famous for his travels in Asia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 915.04 DEMDemi.
Summary: Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURDemi.
Summary: Introduces Muhammad and the basic tenets of the Islamic faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 DEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB MUHAMMAD DEMStoltzfus, Levi.
Summary: ""Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the #1 top-rated Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view of this fascinating and secretive society. You've seen the pretty postcards and the shiny tourist brochures. Now, Amish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 STOUnger, Debi
Summary: Presents a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall, from his childhood and military training through his role as chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II and his leadership efforts as Secretary of State in rebuilding post-war Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, GEORGE UNGLevi, Primo.
Summary: In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVLevi, Primo.
Summary: First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEVLevi, Lia
Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People LeviHolmes-Binney, Debi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9243 HOLMoore, Demi
Summary: "Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, Demi battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years all while juggling a skyrocketing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, DEMI MOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MOORE MOONaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters a sense of African ancestral belief and practice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.96 NAINaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 NAINaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9052 NAINaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: A collection of nonfiction writings includes discussions on the writers who have influenced the author's literary career, his early encounters with literary culture, the impact of the works of Gandhi and other Indian writers, and reflections on his life and family history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 NAIMedina, Nico
Summary: RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUPAlexander, Bevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 ALEDery, Mark
Summary: From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2018