Kim, Hyun Sook
Summary: "The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KIMSummary: From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Kirby Dick, and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer Amy Ziering comes a startling expose of sexual assault on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together cinema verite footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUNWestover, 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 WESWestover, 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 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: JC Lattès 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 WESWestover, 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 WESYamazaki, Kore
Summary: The stolen grimoire was thought long gone, but it turns out it's still hidden within the College. But why leave the stolen goods so close to the scene of the crime? The College alchemists are left scratching their heads in confusion. Meanwhile, weeks stuck in lockdown leave tempers short, and minor misunderstandings lead to major doubts. All it takes is one small incident for strings drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANCStilton, Thea
Summary: It's election time at Mouseford Academy, and the candidates from the Lizard and Gecko student clubs have to win several competitions if they want to become class president. But during the competitions, something mysterious tries to pollute the island's beaches! The fate of the election and their beautiful island home is at stake!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIGrigoriadis, Vanessa
Summary: Draws on research at college and university campuses to explore the topics of sex, consent, and sexual assault, discussing statistics about the prevalence of campus rape, and offering advice on how to make college a safer experience. "What's really happening behind closed doors on America's college campuses? A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.7 GRIWestover, 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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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
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESTOVER, TARA WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WESTOVER WESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Boi WestoverBeutner, Katharine
Summary: "Bertha Mellish, "the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl" at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha's panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEUWestover, 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 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.
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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: LP 921 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 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 WESDeutermann, P. T 1941-
Summary: Investigating the falling death of a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman who was found wearing a female student's underclothing, Ev, the female student's father, fears his daughter will be unfairly branded by corrupt bureaucratic agents at the Academy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEUMoriarty, Laura
Summary: Engrossed in a new relationship to the point that her studies begin to suffer, college junior Veronica is devastated when a plea for help goes unheeded, but a surprising request from her mother teaches her about family, love, and independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORYamazaki, Kore
Summary: The reflection of a false god has manifested. Is it the Testament? Or is it still Philomela? The conglomeration that they've become seeks to leave the College, making for the banquet hall where the College faculty celebrates. Chise and Elias burst into a tense situation, and find themselves having to face off against both sides.--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANCYamazaki, Kore
Summary: "First Lucy was attacked during the College camping trip. Then professor Simeon was caught unawares on the College campus itself. As the victim count begins to rise, it comes to light that a forbidden tome, thought safely stored in the archives, has been stolen-a tome that Elias once glanced through-The Testament of Carnamagos. As the College staff begins to suspect a connection between the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANCMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: "Going back to college, hitting the books. That's Ellen Cunningham's new life. But money's a little tight and she's lucky enough to find inexpensive lodging in a house with three young college boys. Ellen plays housemother, a situation that works for everyoneexcept Reed Morgan, the absentee owner. He's not pleased to find his house occupied by a bunch of college kids and Ellen. Especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: This book chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under - perhaps for the last time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PLAUsdin, Carly
Summary: "The Avant-Guards have been on a roll when it comes to their newly-formed basketball league, and Charlie has been getting more comfortable with her new teammates, but when they hit the end of their winning-streak, will these new friendships survive? As the Avant-Guards struggle to move forward, they'll soon learn just what it means to truly be a team--on the court and, most importantly, off the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 USDMari, Christine
Summary: "A Japanese American college student reconnects with her roots in Tokyo, Japan, while wrestling with feelings of loneliness, depression, and cultural identity confusion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024