Summary: This first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among others--with hundreds of never-before-seen archival pieces, including photographs of James Baldwin, William Burroughs and Langston Hughes, plus a foreword by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shakespeare and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 SHAWhitman, Walt
Summary: A collection of poetry, letters, and prose by Walt Whitman that were inspired by the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 WHIWhitman, Walt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 WHIRauch, Georg
Summary: "A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RAUGreig, Geordie
Summary: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, LUCIAN GREWhyman, Matt.
Summary: "The memoir of a family of six living in a quiet part of England who, though not farmers, decide to buy two mini-pigs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.4 WHYWaisman, Robert
Summary: "A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAIWhitman, Walt 1819-1892
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 WHIWiman, Christian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.509 WIMGeorges, Gigi
Summary: Washington County, Maine. Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie are teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region. For four years Georges followed their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times: the pain and joy of life in a region whose rugged beauty and stoicism mask dwindling populations, vanishing job opportunities, and pervasive opioid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 GEOHinman, Bonnie
Summary: "The names of the Wild West's top lawmen have become famous. Famous Lawmen shows how Wyatt Earp, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and many others worked to enforce the law in a nearly lawless frontier."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 978 HINWhiteman, Medina Tenour
Summary: "Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place--not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this searingly honest memoir, Whiteman contemplates what it means to be an invisible Muslim, examining the pernicious effects of white Muslim privilege and exploring what Muslim identity can mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hurst and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITEMAN, MEDINA TENOUR WHIWittman, Robert K.
Summary: Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offring a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio And Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 WITGehrke-White, Donna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 GEHGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERWeinman, Sarah
Summary: In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH WEIGeorges, Nicole J.
Summary: After discovering that who she thought was her father was indeed not, Portland-based "zinester" Nicole Georges embarks upon a journey of identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GEOWeinman, Sarah
Summary: "In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 WEIGergen, David R. (David Richmond)
Summary: An advisor to Nixon and later presidents discusses seven elements of presidential leadership: personal character, moral vision, political skills, media savvy, judgment in choosing advisors, and an interest one's legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 GERSebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 SebaldWebber, Georgia
Summary: "Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 WEBMcManus, George (George Alvin)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMANUS, GEORGE MCM1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 328.73073 MCM
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.4 McmO'Keeffe, Georgia
Summary: The paintings and drawings reproduced include abstractions, flower paintings, cityscapes, landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 OKEAmson-Bradshaw, Georgia
Summary: Presents the lives and accomplishments of eight women artists from around the world. Every story comes with an engaging activity that will nurture a child's own varied skills and inspire them to pursue a treasured goal or aspiration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2018