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Anne Bogel
(13,493)
Summary: Reading isn't just a way to pass the time -- it's a lifestyle. Books shape, define, and enchant us. They are part of who we are and we can't imagine life without them. In this collection of charming...
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Call #: 028.9 BOG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Tom Gauld artist
(2,191)
Summary: In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a "book-lover's cartoonist," Gauld's...
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Call #: 028.9 GAU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Maureen Wilson illustrator
(829)
Summary: Maureen "Marzi" Wilson -- the popular Instagram cartoonist -- is back with a brand-new collection of hilarious, relatable, and heartwarming doodles about anxiety that show you that you are not alone....
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Call #: 152.46 WIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Hallie Heald illustrator
(221)
Summary: An illustrator and self-proclaimed introvert portrays engaging and sometimes outlandish excuses to avoid leaving home, with a character pursuing their obsessions, hobbies, interests, and sudden whims with gusto on each page.
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Call #: 155.232 HEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Debbie Tung illustrator
(9,248)
Summary: This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert's world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or...
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Call #: 155.232 TUN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Kelly Corrigan
(14,894)
Summary: A funny, wise and insightful exploration of seven sentences adult life requires. Each chapter is animated by poignant, hilarious anecdotes from Corrigan's own life, focusing on one of those scenarios.
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Call #: 170.44 COR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Anne Lamott
(9,791)
Summary: "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in latest book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others -- and yourself -- to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of...
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Call #: 241.4 LAM
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Allen Arnold
(250)
Summary: "You are not alone. Whether you|re a free spirit, an office exec, a writer, musician, college student, or tired parent -- your soul, like mine, knows life is meant to go beyond rat races and rare...
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Call #: 248.4 ARN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Gail Caldwell
(10,845)
Summary: In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.
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Call #: 302.34 CAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Joyce Farmer
(1,713)
Summary: In the vein of Alison Bechdel or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they...
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Call #: 305.26 FAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(187,350)
Summary: In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first...
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Call #: 305.42 ADI YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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illustrator Emma
(1,586)
Summary: Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage...
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Call #: 305.42 EMM
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
(249,021)
Summary: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he,...
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Call #: 305.8 COA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Vannak Anan Prum
(179)
Summary: Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him, but instead Vannak was hostage on the vessel for...
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Call #: 306.362 PRU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Eric Cervini
(821)
Summary: In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a...
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Call #: 306.766 CER
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Alex Cooper
(1,750)
Summary: A memoir from Alex Cooper, who knew "she was holding a secret that could shatter her family, her church community, and her life. Yet when this secret couldn't be hidden any longer, she told her...
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Call #: 306.766 COO YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Roz Chast illustrator
(25,462)
Summary: In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and...
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Call #: 306.874 CHA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Linda Gordon
(732)
Summary: A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan"...
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Call #: 322.42 GOR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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John Lewis
Series:
March
(44,632)
Summary: This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Eric Lichtblau
(1,140)
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II,...
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Call #: 324.13 LIC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Robin Ha illustrator
(5,062)
Summary: A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up...
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Call #: 325.1 HA YA
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Kate Moore
(83,078)
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their...
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Call #: 363.1799 MOO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Brian Fies artist
(1,341)
Summary: Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of...
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Call #: 363.37 FIE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Chanel Miller
(67,892)
Summary: Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it...
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Call #: 364.1532 MIL
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Guy Delisle
(5,094)
Summary: "In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three...
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Call #: 364.154 DEL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Sarah Mackenzie
(6,315)
Summary: Champions the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to children and offers book lists, strategies, and tools parents can use to form deep and lasting connections with their kids.
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Call #: 372.6 MAC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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artist Derf
(771)
Summary: On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio. In a deadly barrage of sixty-seven shots, 4 students were...
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Call #: 378.771 DER
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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Kory Stamper
(6,606)
Summary: "Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong...
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Call #: 423 STA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Carlo Rovelli
(38,352)
Summary: An introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanics to elementary particles and black holes.
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Call #: 530 ROV
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Nate Blakeslee
(8,008)
Summary: The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North...
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Call #: 599.773 BLA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Steven Johnson
(43,209)
Summary: From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner with a real-life historical hero that brilliantly illuminates...
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Call #: 614.514 JOH
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Richard Preston
Series:
Dark Biology
(99,538)
Summary: A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret...
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Call #: 614.57 PRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Marissa Moss artist
(552)
Summary: After returning home from a year abroad, Marissa's husband, Harvey was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep...
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Call #: 616.839 MOS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Rachel Lindsay
(860)
Summary: In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure health care coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange...
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Call #: 616.89 LIN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Chesley Sullenberger
(7,652)
Summary: Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight on...
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Call #: 629.13 SUL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ted Genoways
(1,036)
Summary: The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's...
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Call #: 630 GEN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jonathan Hennessey
(824)
Summary: Presents the key figures and events that have shaped the development and history of beer, from its beginnings around 7000 BC through today's fascination with craft brewing.
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Call #: 641.23 HEN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ruth Reichl
(21,414)
Summary: When Conde Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had...
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Call #: 641.5 REI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Melissa Joulwan
(5,858)
Summary: A collection of information about the paleolithic, or paleo, diet, a diet of pure, unprocessed food that does not include grain, sugar, legumes, or dairy, as well as recipes that follow this lifestyle.
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Call #: 641.563 JOU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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