Karbo, Karen
Summary: Presents information on female rule-breakers, including Josephine Baker, Jane Goodall, Margaret Cho, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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Contents: The importance of being brash -- Strive to defy categorization -- The necessity of having an aviator in your life -- How to stick to your knitting -- The impracticality of marriage -- Making the most of a dysfunctional relationship -- Some thoughts on denial -- Fear management, the Hepburn way -- Thinking like a legend -- Twenty-two ways to get your Hepburn on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEPBURN, KATHARINE KARMcNamara, Garrett
Summary: In this memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett McNamara affectionately known as GMac set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCNAMARA, GARRETT MCNReece, Gabrielle.
Summary: Autobiography of model and professional athlete Gabby Reece discussing her difficult childhood, use of sports and modeling as a path to self-discovery, and ideas about stereotypes of women athletes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.325 REEMahajan, Karan
Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHČapek, Karel
Summary: Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catbird Press 1990
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Summary: Offers parents practical advice on how to welcome an adopted child into their family, with tips for coping with common problems, building affection and trust, dealing with learning or behavioral disorders, and disciplining an adoptive child without harming the parent-child relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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Summary: "The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: "Steeped in science, medicine and his personal hospital experience, a surgeon and TikTok sensation, in this entertaining and educational survival guide, explains the weird and wonderful bodily functions that keep us going, offering practical advice and strategies to help you thrive and take control of your day-to-day health"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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Summary: During the summer a family of bears enjoys the comforts of life at a cottage by a lake, alongside the human visitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East 2011
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Summary: When the summer visitors leave in the fall, a new group of visitors moves into the vacation cottage to spend the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2007
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARBarbe, Karen
Summary: Choosing colours for a crafting project can be daunting and creating colour palettes is a design task in itself but textile designer Karen Barbe's explanations makes it a fun and enjoyable part of the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pimpernel Press Ltd 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.44 BARKarlen, Arno.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 KARCasey, Karan.
Contents: Distant shore -- Another day -- Song of lies -- The Curra road -- Ballad of Tim Evans -- Just a note -- Lord MacDonald's -- Quiet of the night -- Bata is bóthar = Stick and the road -- Four loom weaver -- Jute-mill song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CASCasey, Karan.
Contents: The false lady -- Exiles return -- Sailing off to the Yankee land -- Sally Grier -- The Bay of Biscay -- The little drummer girl -- Out of the window --- Madam I'm a darling -- The nightingale -- False lover John -- The shipyard slips -- The flower of Finae.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass 2010
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Summary: A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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Summary: "Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with trenchant analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government in the past 40 years, Free the Press gives readers a unique perspective on the challenges facing journalism, as well as the rise of hostility between these institutions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus 2021