Sagan, Sasha (Alexandra Rachel Druyan)
Summary: "Part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, For Small Creatures Such as We is the first book from the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan--a luminous exploration of all Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Kirschner, Ann.
Summary: For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: she had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. We know surprisingly little about the vast network of Nazi labor camps, where imprisoned Jews built railroads and highways, churned out munitions and materiel, and otherwise supported the limitless needs of the Nazi war machine. This book gives us an insider's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KIRSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREStanišić, Saša
Summary: HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was danach kommt. HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über ein Dorf, in dem nur noch dreizehn Menschen leben, ein Land, das es heute nicht mehr gibt, eine zersplitterte Familie, die meine ist. Es ist ein Buch über die Frage, was zu mir gehört, ein Selbstporträt mit Ahnen. Und ein Scheitern des Selbstporträts. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: btb 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 STAGraham, Winston
Summary: "Cornwall, 1798-1799. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament--his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza. His old feud with George Warleggan still flares--as does the illicit love between Morwenna and Drake, Demelza's brother. Before the new century dawns, George and Ross will be drawn together by a loss greater than their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2008Benjamin, Carol Lea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/Harper Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENTaber, Sara Mansfield.
Contents: Preface -- pt. 1. The Sea -- book 1: Dragons (Taipei, Taiwan, 1961-1962) -- The Wall -- The Chicken Village -- Whispers -- Night Soil -- book 2: Gum (Bethesda, Maryland, 1962-1964) -- Cross my Heart -- Jap -- The Tomb -- American -- book 3: Rainlight (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1964-1968) -- Klompen -- Dutchies -- My Father's Bath -- The Pistol -- Nicole -- Home -- pt. 2. The Shore -- book 4:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TABER, SARA MANSFIELD TABKruzan, Sara
Summary: "At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRUZAN, SARA KRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KRUZAN KRURaban, Jonathan
Summary: "A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RABTumulty, Karen
Summary: "The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REAGAN, NANCY TUMKimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMQuin, Tegan
Summary: "Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INQuin, Tegan
Summary: High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music QuinSatoko Seo, Emily
Summary: A little girl is determined to make perfect nigiri sushi for her grandmother, but her efforts only lead to frustration, until a surprising discovery helps her understand that cooking with love is more important than cooking perfect food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SATTaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAYSabatini Sloan, Aisha
Summary: "In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan writes about a solitary summer visit to Alaska, observing glaciers, shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and herself. As she studies her surroundings, the myth of Alaska-excitement, exploration, possibility-is complicated by boredom and isolation, and her attempts to set down place in writing are suffused with nostalgia and anxiety. The first title commissioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SABPark, Linda Sue.
Summary: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Summary: With high drama and stunning detail, relates the infamous crime and punishment of French serial killer Joseph Vacher, interweaving the story of how Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, Emile Fourquet and colleagues developed forensic science as we know it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 STAValentine, Sarah
Summary: "The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VALENTINE, SARAH VALFuller, Alexandra
Summary: Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, ALEXANDRA FULAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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Fuller, Alexandra
Summary: The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, ALEXANDRA FULSummary: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRI