Tatel, David S.
Summary: "David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America's second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved--or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2024
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Summary: "From indie musician Orenda Fink, a memoir of a tumultuous childhood growing up with a mother who may have borderline personality disorder. Orenda Fink was raised by a darkly charismatic mother who insisted that they were both MAGIC. In The Witch's Daughter, Orenda chronicles her years spent navigating this ominous power, alongside her mother's substance abuse and hyper-controlling, often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Summary: "'Dancing makes you feel heaps better' - Diana. In 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess of Wales, wanted dance lessons. Would Anne be her teacher? Anne and her royal pupil were soon meeting at a private studio for the first of hundreds of secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sutherland House
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Summary: "For the record...Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son's health and safety forced him onto a center stage that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TRUWong, Edward
Summary: "The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao's promise of a powerful China....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WONAlvi, Aaisha
Summary: "A powerful exploration of postpartum psychosis and motherhood — and a call to end the stigma and blame. Early motherhood is supposed to be joyous, but for Aaisha Alvi those early days were ruined by terrifying thoughts about her baby and family. Her experience was the antithesis of everything she had ever been told about motherhood, far beyond the trials of breastfeeding or putting her baby to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALVI, AAISHA ALVMacLaine, Shirley
Summary: "With over seventy years on the silver screen, Shirley MacLaine has, as she says, seen it all, done it all, been everywhere, and met everyone. In 1955, she debuted in Hollywood as the lead role in The Trouble with Harry, winning her the first of many Golden Globes, and from there, her popularity only grew as she amassed a stunning collection of awards, stories, and experiences. Now, at nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: "Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELevy, Deborah
Summary: "The inimitable Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living, traces the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary: "An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSS, SARAH MOSMintz, Elliot
Summary: "In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono-or sometimes both-were calling him. Which they did almost every day for nearly ten years, engaging Mintz in hours-long late-night phone conversations that all but consumed him for the better part of a decade. In We All Shine On, Mintz-a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton
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Summary: "From Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray, a singular story of discovery and embrace of Indigenous identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2024
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Summary: "An essential introduction to the visionary, beyond-left-and-right political activism of the last 60 years, and a deeply honest insider account of why those activists have--so far--fallen short. In a gripping first-person narrative that reads like a novel, using his own experiences as a lens, Mark Satin tells the story of three generations of thinkers and activists who tried--and are still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATIN, MARK IVOR SATChung, Connie
Summary: "In an industry dominated by white men, Connie Chung stood alone, the first and only Asian woman to break into the television news industry. This is her extraordinary story, told with incisive wit and remarkable candor. Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHUNG CHUGraham, Jasmin
Summary: "From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut memoir: the uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature's most misunderstood animal-the shark. You never forget your first shark. For Jasmin Graham, it was a little bonnethead, a type...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, JASMIN GRAMilford, Stanley
Summary: "Former Navajo Ranger Stanley Milford Jr.'s chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained over the course of his illustrious career serving the Navajo Nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss "book content," she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 VELLEKOOP, MAURICE VELMyer, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 MYEDorrance
Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Summary: "Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Editions 2023
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Summary: "When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good in other people. "Even the meanest person might have pretty eyes," she would say. Nino's words persuaded Whitmer to look for the good in any person or situation--just one of many colorful personal experiences that have shaped her political vision. (And, as Whitmer writes, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "Living with Dad was like living with a stranger--as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek I'd see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in makeup and wardrobe for a pilot he was working on....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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Summary: "A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant and vivacious wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024