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Stout, Carder

Summary: Psychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs for the Shoreline Crips, surviving homelessness, escaping a murder plot, and finding redemption in the most unlikely of places. Dr. Carder Stouts clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOUT, CARDER STO

Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: A look at the experiences of Louisa May Alcott during the Civil War that led to the writing of Little Women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALC

Corey, Shana.

Summary: A one hundreth anniversary tribute to the Girl Scouts founder describes how she rejected the conventions of Victorian culture and introduced her pioneer family's passion for service, adventure, and independence to the girls of her time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio Low

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 369.4 COR

Scott-Clark, Cathy

Summary: The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation. Staying with a small group of characters throughout, The Exile...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SCO

Schott, Ben

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 031.02 SCH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc Schott

Clarey, Christopher

Summary: A tennis correspondent for the New York times sits down with Roger Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEDERER, ROGER CLA

Escott, Colin.

Summary: A homage to the "godfather of country music" culls never-before-published letters, photographs, and lyrics to paint a portrait of this American cultural icon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.642 ESC

Schott, Philipp

Summary: "From Dr. Schott's 30 years in veterinary practice come over 60 heartwarming, funny, and adorable stories about angry pelicans, bug-eyed goldfish, and plenty of cats and dogs In the third book in this bestselling series, we meet the oddest creatures, from an escaped newt to a baby snow leopard, but the focus is on the dogs and cats that make up most of a pet vet's day, and on the wacky and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2022

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 SCH

Cott, Jonathan.

Summary: A decades-long friend of John Lennon and Yoko Ono presents an intimate account of the couple's relationship that reveals the profoundly positive influence of Ono on Lennon and the ways they inspired each other creatively before the latter's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LENNON, JOHN COT

Fagan, Cary

Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAG

McCreery, Scotty

Summary: "American Idol winner Scotty McCreery shares his journey from his North Carolina roots to winning America's most popular singing competition and launching a musical career he had always dreamt about"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MCCREERY, SCOTTY MCC

Schott, Philipp

Summary: "Cats, dogs, people - funny and heartbreaking stories from a pet veterinarian With insight and humor, Dr. Philipp Schott shares tales from the unlikely path he took into his career of veterinary science and anecdotes from his successful small-animal clinic. Dr. Schott brings to his writing the benefit of many years of expertise. Wisdom he imparts on readers includes the best way to give your...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2019

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Escott, Paul D.

Summary: "Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for both those in the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ESC

Stott, Rebecca.

Summary: Tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, arguing that the idea emerged over many centuries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 STO

Carew-Miller, Anna.

Summary: A biography of Siddhartha Gautama, later called Buddha, who was a prince in India about 2,500 years ago who gave up earthly riches and power to seek enlightenment about the mysteries of life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUD

Stelson, Caren Barzelay

Summary: "Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YAS

Carby, Hazel V.

Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019

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Canedy, Dana.

Summary: In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fianc,̌ a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KIN

Simon, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 SIMON, CARLY SIM

Roberts-Frenzel, Caren.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 ROB

Carns, Ted.

Summary: Ted and Kathy Carns are living a 21st century success story of zero waste, total recycling and astonishing inventiveness. Their five-acre home in western Pennsylvania is a warm, inviting showcase of self-reliant living. They have all the comforts of modern life, from flat screen TV to morning smoothies from their solar powered blender.

Format: text

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 CAR

Cary, Lorene

Summary: Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARY CAR

Carles, Emilie

Summary: Translation of: Une soupe aux herbes sauvages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.97 CAR

Spelling, Candy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPELLING, CANDY SPE

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