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Summary: "Your story begins in Africa. Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you. Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy presents an unprecedentedly accessible, empowering, and proud introduction to African American history for children. While your ancestors' freedom was taken from them, their spirit was not;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 973 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 WILScheier, Liz
Summary: "A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEIER, LIZ SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHEIER SCHScherer, Migael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHERER, MIGAEL SCHScheer, Paul
Summary: "From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Hit So Hard begins with stories from a childhood informed by the AA meetings Schemel's parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her rebellious adolescence and first forays into drinking at age 11, which coincided with her passion for punk rock and playing drums. Her efforts to come to terms with her sexuality further drove her memorably hard playing, and by the late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEMEL, PATTY SCHScheer, Rob
Summary: "In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEER, ROB SCHAchebe, Chinua.
Summary: A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obama's election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHEBE, CHINUA ACHScheer, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 SCHScheuer, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1046 SCHScheff, Matt.
Summary: Chronicles the life and career of the NASCAR driver, from his early days in the United States Auto Club to his three Sprint Cup championships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
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Summary: Elyse had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties that she searched for her biological mother. She was not prepared for the life-changing news: she had an identical twin sister. Not only that: she and her sister, for a time, had been part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother. When she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8750 SCHShere, Jeremy.
Summary: An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 SHEScheff, Matt
Summary: Chronicles the life and career of the NASCAR driver who competed in his first NASCAR race when he was only sixteen, joined the Joe Gibbs Racing team in 2008, and went on to win more than one hundred races in NASCAR's three major series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUSKlam, Julie
Summary: "Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KLABlas, Terry
Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHABlay, Zeba
Summary: "An Empowering and Celebratory Portrait of Black Women-from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a way tocarve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online." In this collection of essays, Blay expands on this initial idea by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 BLAKlam, Julie.
Summary: Riotously funny and unexpectedly poignant, this is the moving tale of how one woman learned the secrets of love, health, and happiness from an unexpected source: her dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615.8 klaTolan, Sandy
Summary: "In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the househe was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People TolanBlas, Terry
Summary: "Discover how Mexican painter Frida Kahlo becomes one of the greatest artistic voices in the world as she travels from Mexico to New York City for her first-ever solo exhibition, setting the art world aflame"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: "A recollection, in graphic novel format, of the author's ambivalent feelings regarding motherhood while growing up, and an exploration of the imposition of motherhood on women as both an expectation and a path toward fulfillment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2023
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Summary: "From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHETolan, Sandy.
Summary: The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people--one Israeli, one Palestinian--that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into Israel, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. Two were turned away, but the third was met at the door by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld TolanStephens, Olin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Seaport Museum 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8302 STEScher, Amy B.
Summary: "The true story of a fiery young woman's heartwarming and hilarious journey that takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. Along the way, she discovers a world of cultural mayhem, radical medical treatment, and, most importantly, a piece of her life she never even knew she was missing. When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018