Savage, Roz.

Summary: "In 2007, Roz Savage set out to row 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean-alone. Despite having successfully rowed across the Atlantic the previous year, the Pacific presented the former office worker with unprecedented challenges and overpowering currents-both in the ocean water and within herself. Crossing Earth's largest ocean alone might seem a long way removed from everyday life, yet the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAVAGE, ROZ SAV

Roe, Nicholas.

Summary: Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEATS, JOHN ROE

Roe, Sue.

Summary: A group portrait of the Impressionist artists traces how the movement's early leaders met in the studios of Paris and lived and worked together closely for several years, supporting one another through a series of emotional and financial difficulties.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 ROE

Rol, Ruud van der.

Summary: Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1995

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 ROL

Chast, Roz

Summary: "In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHA

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAST, ROZ CHA

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Savage, Roz

Summary: Offers an inspirational story of how one woman traded an unhappy job and marriage for a 103-day solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, powered only by muscle, grit, and determination, in an account by the first woman to ever row from California to Hawaii.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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Ro, Ronin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2007

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Roe, Sue

Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROE

Nordland, Rod

Summary: "An astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.104 NOR

Ro, Ronin.

Summary: "... Full-scale biography of the musical career of Prince, one of the most commercially successful, controversial, and influential musicians of all time"--Jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011

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Nordland, Rod

Summary: In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORDLAND, ROD NOR

Stewart, Rod.

Summary: A personal portrait by the legendary singer recounts his life on and off the stage, from his humble British roots and his riotous years on tour with The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces to his three marriages and his decades as a solo performer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 STE

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Pyle, Rod.

Summary: Encompassing the firsthand accounts of the astronauts and other participants, a complete history of NASA's Apollo program includes coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the near-catastrophic Apollo 13 mission.

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Person Productions in association with Collins 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.454 PYL