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Brooks, Ben

Summary: Profiles over seventy people who broke the rules and smashed stereotypes, including such figures as Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, and Sally Ride.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Brooks, Ben

Summary: More true tales of amazing boys who found the courage to be themselves, and achieved something remarkable at the same time. This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for boys who dare to be different, the bestselling book that changed countless boys' lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves. What have the footballer Kylian Mbappe, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 305.31 Brooks

Brooks, Ben

Summary: Prince charming, dragon slayer, mischievous prankster ... More often than not, these are the role-models boys encounter in the books they read at home and at school. As a boy, there is an assumption that you will conform to a stereotypical idea of masculinity. But what if you're the introvert kind? What if you prefer to pick up a book rather than a sword? What if you want to cry when you're...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2018

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRO

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 305.31 Brooks

Simone, Gail

Summary: "Journalist Chloe Pierce had no idea that her fiance Philip's decision to pick up a book by enigmatic and compelling self-help guru Astrid Mueller would change her life forever--by ending his! Three months after reading Mueller's book, Philip had blown his brains out all over Chloe's new kitchen and something in that book made him do it. Now, Chloe will stop at nothing as she attempts to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2016

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLE

Summary: "Journalist Chloe Pierce had no idea that her fiance Philip's decision to pick up a book by enigmatic and compelling self-help guru Astrid Mueller would change her life forever--by ending his! Three months after reading Mueller's book, Philip had blown his brains out all over Chloe's new kitchen--and something in that book made him do it. Now, Chloe will stop at nothing as she attempts to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2016

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLE

Brooks, Ben

Summary: "Boys can be anything they want to be! In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Ben Brooks introduces seventy-six more boys and men who will inspire young readers to live boldly and true to themselves."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 BRO

Spurrier, Simon

Summary: "One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Vertigo, DC Comics 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DRE

Winton, Tim.

Summary: A story of adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limit against nature and the power of the sea, and being with like-minded souls.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Winton, Tim.

Summary: "An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COM

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