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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.91 KANRose, Daniel Asa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ROSLisle, Laurie.
Summary: "The rituals of gardening give a rhythm ... to everyday life that is apart from the routines of writing and the flows of relationships. Tending my garden became the same as taking care of myself." In this modern pastoral, Lisle tells us how she heaved compost, dug post holes, planted, and replanted--and how she also found herself digging into her feelings about love and loss, work and play,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: "The story of a year in the bird-life of a three-acre woodlot in rural Connecticut, in which the reader shadows the author month by month as he watches, listens, and chronicles the movement of the seasons through the complex and fascinating lives of the birds that come and go. Illustrated with twenty-five line drawings that mimic a 'notebook diary' style, the narrative opens the eyes of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 TOUMoehringer, J. R.
Summary: J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, he would press his ear to a radio, straining to hear the keys to his own identity. His mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something he couldn't name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOEHRINGER, J.R. MoehringerMarchese, C. Marina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home MarcheseHaskell, Will
Summary: The underdog story of Will Haskell, who became a Democratic state Senator in 2018 at age twenty-two--taking on an incumbent who had been undefeated for Haskell's entire life and earning an endorsement from President Obama--and is determined to pave the way for his peers to transform government from the bottom up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASKELL, WILL HASStern, Jane.
Summary: The author describes how she survived severe depression by becoming an EMT, describing her training under an ex-Marine, the confusion of her first calls, and her new vocation's ability to reveal the secrets of human nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.025 STEWolters, Cleary.
Summary: "The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time--a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond. Fans nationwide have fallen in love with Orange Is the New Black, the critically acclaimed and wildly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLTERS, CLEARY WOLFrankel, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 FRABarber, Charles
Summary: "A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019