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Summary: A memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? Who are our most trusted, valuable companions and what will we do for them? When you've given up, when you least expect it, there it is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, ABIGAIL THOWheatley, Abigail
Summary: "From atoms to X-rays and from the Big Bang to the Internet, brilliant breakthroughs by successful scientists have changed the world again and again. Dip inside this book to read the stories of 100 scientists and their amazing discoveries..." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM WheatleyAdams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADABalfe, Abigail
Summary: The author-illustrator shares her journey of growing up autistic in a confusing "normal" world, all the while missing some important information about herself, in this illustrated and completely unique book that provides crucial information about autism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BALFE BALPogrebin, Abigail.
Summary: "The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality. Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is many things, but the one that has defined her most profoundly is 4zidentical twin.4y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.44 POGThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ThomasSammon, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SAMHayoun, Massoud
Summary: The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYOUN, MASSOUD HAYPesta, Abigail
Summary: Chronicles the story of how serial sexual predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before a team of brave women banded together to stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 PESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 PESThomas, Abigail.
Summary: Richard took their dog, Harry, out for a walk, and Harry came home alone. Richard had been hit by a car and was lying bleeding in the street. The traumatic head injury he suffered didn't kill him, as attending police had predicted it would, but it rendered him susceptible to large-scale memory loss, hallucinations, and such wild rages that Abigail was forced to commit him to an institution....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 THOSymon, Charles.
Summary: This volume affords an opportunity fo UP people to take a look at themselves and swell a bit with pride at "what we have done", and for the rest of the world to awe at what this little, sparsley settled region has produced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RonJon Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 SYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977 SYMDuffy, Eamon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUFKelley, True.
Summary: "This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ADAMSNelson, Ramon
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Jennings Press 1990
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.9 NELGilmour, Charlie Samson
Summary: "A beautiful, moving, and wildly original memoir of grief, healing, and fatherhood through the story of a young man who adopts a baby magpie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILMOUR, CHARLIE SAMSON GILYoung, Damon
Summary: The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of black male identity, and the ongoing realities of white supremacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOUNG, DAMON YOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B YOUNG YOURosenstock, Barb
Summary: Presents the life of the former first lady, describing how she defied historical conventions by asking questions, marrying against expectations, volunteering during the Revolutionary War, and representing the new nation as the president's wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ADACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB ADAMS ROSEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: Through their correspondence, John and Abigail Adams' relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 ADAMS, JOHN EllisSummary: Profiles the life of Abigail Adams, John Adams' wife, focusing on her experiences during the American Revolution and how her role in Adams' presidency would set the standard for future first ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB ADAMS ORRCallow, Simon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLES, ORSON CALDoonan, Simon
Summary: Paying homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary, this first-hand account of the album's impact on the LGBTQIA+ community captures a pivotal moment when those long silenced were finally given a voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DOOSimon, Carly
Summary: A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: "Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1994