Davids, Sharice
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 DAVDalio, 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 DALGrimm, Gavin
Summary: When you're a kid like Gavin Grimm, you know yourself best. And Gavin knew that he was a boy -- even if others saw him as a girl. But when his school took away his right to something as simple as using the boys' restroom, Gavin knew he had a big decision to make. Because there are always more choices than the ones others give you. Gavin chose to correct others when they got his pronouns wrong....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GRIShapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAVDavis, Patti
Summary: "A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAVIS DAVDavis, Geena
Summary: "From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her "journey to badassery"--from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, GEENA DAVDavis, Joshua
Summary: In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever told Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much -- until two inspiring high school science teachers convinced the boys to enter the competition. Up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.8 DAVNott, David (David M.)
Summary: For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTT, DAVID NOTBiespiel, David
Summary: The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel’s moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Impelled by the wonder and delight of creativity, and how the presence of books assists emotional development, Biespiel writes for every creative person who longs to shape the actions of their world into art and literature. Exploring the original sources of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIESPIEL, DAVID BIEGoggins, David
Summary: "For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare. Poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lioncrest Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOGGINS, DAVID GOGGrohl, David
Summary: Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities Dave Grohl has decided to tell these stories just as he has always done, in his own voice. The joy that he has felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that he has recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 GROPoses, David
Summary: "In his groundbreaking memoir, The weight of air, David chronicles his struggle to overcome mental illness and addiction. By age nineteen, he'd been through medical detox, inpatient rehab, twelve-step programs, and a halfway house. He saw his drug use as a symptom of depression, but the experts insisted that addiction was the problem. Over the next thirteen years, he went from one relapse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R PosesRobertson, David
Summary: "David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he was not permitted to speak his language--Swampy Cree--and was forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROBERTSON ROBSpade, David
Summary: Comedian David Spade takes fans back to his childhood as a wannabe cool younger brother and recounts his excruciating road-tour to fame, dishing about his time crisscrossing the country as a comedian, for low-paying gigs and dragging along his mother's old suitcase full of props. He also covers his years on SNL, including his close working relationship and friendship with Chris Farley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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Summary: "Now for the first time, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke, a year that turned his life upside down, and ultimately, saved him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TALBOT, DAVID TALAmbroz, David
Summary: "As a child, David Ambroz was raised homeless in New York City, the home of Wall Street and more than 100,000 homeless children. For David and his two siblings, their mother's diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia sets them in motion for a life of poverty, violence and instability as they travel across New York and New England seeking shelter. For eleven years, home for David means living in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: A celebrated mountaineer and authorsearches for meaning in great adventuresand explorations, past and present. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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Summary: In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny space in Manhattan's East Village. Chang, the chef-owner, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. He was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, "What if the underground could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem ChangGrohl, David
Summary: The legendary American musician, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker offers a collection of stories, written by his own hand, that focus on the memories of his life, from his childhood to today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio GrohlSipress, David
Summary: "From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity -- richly interleaved with the author's witty, beloved cartoons." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIPRESS, DAVID SIPDavid, Cazzie
Summary: "From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVID, CAZZIE DAVGoggins, David
Summary: "The stories and lessons in this raw, revealing, unflinching memoir offer the reader a blueprint they can use to climb from the bottom of the barrel into a whole new stratosphere that once seemed unattainable. Whether you feel off-course in life, are looking to maximize your potential or drain your soul to break through your so-called glass ceiling, this is the only book you will ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionscrest Publishing 2022