Sonnenberg, Susanna
Summary: Presents an illuminating assessment of the women who have profoundly shaped the author's life, in a candid series of portraits that explores the powerful bonds and complex nuances that mark female friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONNENBERG, SUSANNA SONAshton, Susanna
Summary: "The story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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Summary: "A revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, SUSANNA MOOSonnenberg, Susanna
Summary: Sonnenberg's memoir illuminates her resolve to forge her independence, to become a woman capable of trust and to be a good mother to her own children after being raised by a mother who was a compulsive liar and a drug user.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2909 SONKamps, Louisa
Summary: Draws from the trailblazing stories of forty women who have changed the world for the better to provide a guide for young activists to stand up for what they believe in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Bookworks 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.4083 KAMRobbins, Dean
Summary: Five girls played together in the Smith Sisters Orchestra: Irene on trombone, Erma on vibraphone, Edwina on trumpet, Mildred on violin, and Lila on saxophone. But what of the littlest sister? When Viola's time came, almost every instrument was taken...except one. When she first sat behind a drum kit, she lost the beat, made a terrible racket, and had more fun than she'd ever had before. Viola...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: J 921 SMIAdiba, Zarifa
Summary: A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroad in this triumphant memoir from debut author Zarifa Adiba. As an Afghan girl, Zarifa Adiba has big, unfathomable dreams. Her family is poor, her country mired in conflict. Walking to school in Kabul, Zarifa has to navigate suicide bombers. But Zarifa perseveres, nurturing her passion for music...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ADIBA ADIVess, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.64 VESSummary: "Celebrate singing and songwriting with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy. Save frontline soldiers with Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie. And swim across the English Channel with Leena and Bhakti Sharma. 'Rebel Girls Powerful Pairs' showcases many of the wonderful ways mothers and daughters work together to make the world a better, healthier, and more vibrant place"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REBThompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: "A picture book biography of Senator Elizabeth Warren"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WARDacres, Sutanya
Summary: The creator and host of the podcast Dinner for One shares how she rebuilt her life after a painful divorce by beginning to cook dinner for one in her Paris kitchen while learning to date again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DACRES, SUTANYA DACAntonetta, Susanne
Summary: Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to discuss birth parents with their son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTONETTA, SUSANNE ANTSeton, Susannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SETBreslin, Susannah
Summary: "What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRESLIN, SUSANNAH BRECahalan, Susannah
Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CAHCharleson, Susannah
Summary: "Readers take to the streets beside Susannah to bring home a host of missing pets. Along the way, Susannah finds a part of herself also lost. And when unexpected heartbreak shatters her own sense of direction, it is Ace--the shelter dog that started it all--who leads Susannah home. Inquisitive, instructive, heartrending, and hopeful, Where the Lost Dogs Go pays tribute to the missing dogs--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHACahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.832 CAHCharleson, Susannah.
Summary: A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work with unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing uplifting success stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHAGibson, Susannah
Summary: This illuminating group portrait delves into the lives of a circle of 18th-century women called the Bluestockings, who came together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, fighting for women to be educated and have a public role in society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: In her highly-anticipated nonfiction debut, humorist and popular blogger Susannah B. Lewis (Whoa! Susannah) uses dry wit and an eye for the absurd to find laughter in even the most challenging circumstances. Millions of online fans have flocked to Susannah B. Lewis's hysterical, take-no-prisoners videos that capture her uproarious yet deeply faithful view of the world. Now she brings to book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019