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Summary: Rich, vivid illustrations by Ojibwe Woodland artist Pawis-Steckley are delivered in a graphic style that honors Indigenous people. The bold artwork adds impact to the compelling text. (Kirkus starred review) The prose is reminiscent of an inspirational speech ("Everyone's path looks different"), with a message of service that includes fun biographical facts, such as her love of Bruce Lee....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVSierakowiak, Dawid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SIERawl, Paige.
Summary: "A teenager's memoir of the experinces of bullying, being HIV positive and surviving the experiences to become a force for positive change in this world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 RAWSummary: Fourteen children's book artists draw their favorite foods and explain why they love them, using short stories, statements, and poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DALHari, Daoud.
Summary: This is a harrowing memoir of how one person has made a difference: Daoud Hari helped inform the world about the genocide in Darfur. Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, traditional life was shattered when government-backed militias attacked Darfur's villages with helicopters and on horseback, raping and murdering citizens and burning villages....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 962.404 HARSmiley, Tavis
Summary: A notable PBS and Public Radio International host recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou, who took on the role of teacher and maternal figure to him after their initial meeting in 1986, when he was a recent college graduate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMITowle, Wendy
Summary: A biography of the Canadian-born black American who studied engineering in Scotland and patented over fifty inventions despite the obstacles he faced because of his race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MCCLayle, Paige
Summary: ""For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. All my struggles and feelings were supposedly universal, and the real difference was that I was just a weak, manipulative, selfish, emotional baby. I had to toughen up. But as much as everyonetried to convince me, I knew it couldn't be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me than everyone else. Whilst the people around me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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 LAVHadid, Yolanda
Summary: In early 2011, just before her wedding to David Foster, Yolanda fell ill. From an outspoken, multi-tasking social butterfly she became trapped in a paralyzing mental cocoon. She suffered from severe debilitating fatigue, migraines, joint pain, anxiety, insomnia, Bell’s palsy, tremors, muscle weakness, severe brain fog, word retrieval difficulty, memory loss and intermittent loss of eyesight. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HADID, YOLANDA HADRavin, Idan.
Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAVIN, IDAN RAVSaile, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pruett Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 SAIDalio, Ray
Summary: In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history. Dalio himself has appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 DALMahdavian, Navied
Summary: "A gorgeously illustrated debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAHDAVIAN, NAVIED MAHMayle, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 MAYMayle, Peter
Summary: "The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the Cô̂te d'Azur. In search of sunlight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.9 MAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel MayleMayle, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.1 MAYRall, Ted.
Summary: As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RALGable, Sally
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 GABBawlf, R. Samuel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BAWRowse, A L
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 ROWRowley, Hazel.
Summary: Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention--private and public--that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring--a partnership that they created according to their own ambitions and needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010