Wilson, Misty
Summary: "Debut author Misty Wilson chronicles her seventh-grade experience as the only girl on her town's football team in this empowering graphic memoir about teamwork, friendship, crushes, and touchdowns"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILJesús, Ada De
Summary: This entertaining collection of short autobiographical pieces recalls the author's struggles as an immigrant youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH 921 JESWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESKidder, Tracy.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 KIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 KIDMojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJWestover, Tara
Summary: The author recounts her life growing up with her survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. She lacked any formal education, but began to educate herself and taught herself enough to be admitted to Brigham Young University and then to Cambridge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombora 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 WESKidder, Tracy.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KIDWestover, Tara
Summary: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JC Lattès 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 WESMezrich, Ben
Summary: The incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what followed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 006.7 MEZOgle, Rex
Summary: "The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OGLWestover, Tara
Summary: Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 WESTOVER, TARA WESPainter, Nell Irvin
Summary: A Princeton University historian describes her post-retirement decision to study art, a venture that compelled her to find relevance in the undervalued masters she loves, the obstacles faced by women artists, and the challenges of balancing art and life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 700.92 PAIWestover, Tara
Summary: "Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summershe stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESCopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESTOVER, TARA WESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Boi WestoverMezrich, Ben
Summary: "The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.7 MEZFleming, Jory
Summary: "A remarkable and unforgettable memoir from the first man with autism to attend Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, revealing what life is really like inside a world constructed for neurotypical minds while celebrating the many gifts of being different"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLEMING, JORY FLEWestover, Tara
Summary: A searing, unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho and forbidden to go to school, defies her family and earns a PhD from Cambridge University.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WESCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WESTOVER, TARA WESWestover, Tara
Summary: A searing, unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho and forbidden to go to school, defies her family and earns a PhD from Cambridge University.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: LP 921 WESGreene, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENE, BOB GREWestover, Tara
Summary: "Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summershe stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 111 NON FIC WESWestover, Tara
Summary: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 WESYoung, Audrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 YOUTalusan, Meredith
Summary: "A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TALUSAN, MEREDITH TALLand, Stephanie
Summary: When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAND, STEPHANIE LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio LandThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020