Shamir, Ruby

Summary: Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists inspire a new generation of investigative reporters as they offer tips and advice for writing stories that can make a difference.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHA

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHA

Harris, Kamala

Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019

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

Toubassy, Samir

Summary: The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war—the Nakba, or catastrophe—is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is his trek to excel, while wrestling with his roots and identity as a Palestinian in the shadow of his family’s expulsion that is at the heart of his story. Global business leader, philanthropist, and educator, Samir Toubassy left Jaffa with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUBASSY, SAMIR TOU

Jeffrey, Shaker

Summary: Recounts the story of Shaker Jeffrey, a young Yazidi interpreter for the US military in Iraq, and what happened after ISIS sentenced the Yazidi people to extermination. The Yazidis fled to Mount Shingal, where they had no food and no water. Shaker went behind enemy lines, relaying their precise locations to CENTCOM in Washington and even infiltrating their ranks to rescue the taken; but he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFREY, SHAKER JEF

Shafrir, Doree

Summary: "An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected, from the co-host of the hit podcast Forever35. Doree Shafrir was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed; at both sites, she authored countless viral articles. Just before she turned forty, she published her first novel, and one year later, she quit her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAFRIR, DOREE SHA

Shadmi, Koren

Summary: "A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his personal Twilight Zone. We recognize Rod Serling as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Television. Before he became the revered master of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019

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

Sharif, Manal

Summary: A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARIF, MANAL SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHARIF SHA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Sharif