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Neil Gaiman
(15,504)
Summary: "The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of...
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Call #: 828 GAI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jordan Romero
(2,461)
Summary: "The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"-- Provided by publisher.
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Call #: B ROMERO YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Reinhard Kleist
(1,010)
Summary: Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage,...
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Call #: B HAFT YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Chris Herren
(1,396)
Summary: Former NBA basketball player Chris Herren chronicles the rise and fall of his basketball career, his struggle with drugs, his marriage to his high-school sweetheart, and life with his children.
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Call #: B HERREN YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Jenn McAllister
(1,355)
Summary: "Jenn McAllister, better known as Jennxpenn, has been obsessed with making videos since she found her parents' video camera at the age of eight. A shy child, Jenn turned to film because, unlike...
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Call #: B MCALLISTER YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
John Lewis
Series:
March
Summary: Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Bethany Hamilton
(12,973)
Summary: Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
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Call #: B HAMILTON YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Joseph Bruchac
(354)
Summary: Jim Thorpe played professional football and major league baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track and field. He'll be forever revered by the sports community and by his Native American...
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Call #: B THORPE YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Johanna Reiss
(11,881)
Summary: A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two and a half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
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Call #: B REISS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
John Lewis
Series:
March
(27,275)
Summary: After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Simon Schwartz
(725)
Summary: "Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his...
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Call #: B SCHWARTZ YA
Location: YA Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Wayne B Drash
Summary: Documents the story of "Penny" Hardaway, tracing the injuries that halted his progress as a star athlete and his decision to coach the Lester Middle School basketball team in Memphis, where he helped...
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Call #: B HARDAWAY YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
John Hersey
(74,995)
Summary: On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories...
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Call #: 940.5425 HER YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Ji-li Jiang
(14,796)
Summary: An outstanding student and much admired leader of her class, Ji-Li Jiang was poised for a shining future in the Communist party until the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Told with simplicity, innocence...
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Call #: 951.056 JIA YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Ryan Smithson
(1,371)
Summary: Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two year later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. This is an...
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Call #: 956.7044 SMI YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Nic Sheff
(40,824)
Summary: Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable...
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Call #: B SHEFF YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Zeina Abirached
Series:
Graphic Universe
(3,937)
Summary: When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two by...
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Call #: B ABIRACHED YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Koren Zailckas
(24,233)
Summary: The author describes her abuse of alcohol.
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Call #: B ZAILCKAS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Sandra Donovan
(5)
Summary: The book explores seventeen old believes about U.S. presidents and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones stump even the experts! Find out whether William Henry Harrison...
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Joan Didion
(1,938)
Summary: A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as...
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Call #: 814.54 DID
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Peter Mayle
(3,493)
Summary: Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France -- lessons learned, culinary...
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Call #: 944 MAY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Buzz Bissinger
(57,378)
Summary: Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous...
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Call #: 796.3326 BIS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Eleanor Davis
(1,903)
Summary: A treatise on what makes art art, told in graphic novel form.
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Call #: 701.1 DAV
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Peter Mayle
(73,468)
Summary: They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provençal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by month account of the charms...
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Call #: 944 MAY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Hyeonseo Lee
(80,658)
Summary: In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea for China. Her mother's first words over the telephone to her lost daughter were "don't come back." The reprisals for all of them would have been...
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Peter Mayle (read by Peter Mayle)
(73,546)
Summary: They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provençal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by month account of the charms...
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Call #: CD BOOK 944 MAY
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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by
Nadia Murad
(22,408)
Summary: In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and...
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Call #: 956.7044 MUR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Loung Ung
(43,290)
Summary: From a childhood survivor of the brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of tragedy and spiritual triumph.
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Call #: 959.6 UNG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Joseph R. Biden . Jr
(22,530)
Summary: In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. It was the one constant in what had...
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Call #: 973.932 BID
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Souad Mekhennet
Summary: The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet...
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Joseph R. Biden . Jr
Summary: In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. It was the one constant in what had...
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Nadia Murad
Summary: In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and...
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by
Howard Blum
(1,318)
Summary: In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate...
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Call #: 327.12 BLU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Gord Hill , artist
(300)
Summary: The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protesters who risked their lives to do the right...
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by
Aubrey Sitterson
(522)
Summary: A history of wrestling covers the sport's progress from the carnival days to the dominance of the World Wrestling Federation and the current diverse independent wrestling scene.
BOOK
Call #: 796.812 SIT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Lee Israel
(3,951)
Summary: Before turning to her life of crime -- running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author...
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Call #: 364.163 ISR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Donald Stratton
(3,510)
Summary: At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely...
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by
Nick Eatman
(89)
Summary: A veteran Texas sports writer offers a lively, up-close look at football in Texas - the fullest portrait ever conceived - viewed through the interwoven stories of three teams, Plano Senior High...
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Call #: 796.332 EAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Donald Stratton
(3,533)
Summary: At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely...
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Call #: B STRATTON
Location: Adult Biographies
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