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110305) Committed
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Gilbert presents the latest chapter of her life. Having fallen in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man living in Indonesia, Gilbert nevertheless disapproved of marriage. However, when the duo attempts to settle in America and Felipe faces possible deportation, Gilbert is forced to swallow her pride and venture forth into a life of matrimony.
110307) Not that kind of girl
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Lena Dunham tells stories about wonderful nights with terrible boys and terrible days with wonderful friends, about ambition and the two existential crises that she had before the age of twenty. About fashion and its many discontents. About publicly sharing her body, and having to prove one's self in a meeting full of fifty-year-old men, and the health fears (tinnitus, lamp dust, infertility) that keep her up at night.
110309) A complete name index of the Biographical review of Cayuga County, New York, edition of 1894
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH3590
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
110312) Banquet at Delmonico's: great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, a new graphic memoir brimming with black humor, that explores the ultimate irony: the author's addiction to 12-step programs. David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: fathera sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater. Then David's mother gains control of her weight through Overeaters Anonymous, and a sense of support and community from Al-Anon....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage, and a determination to survive. As the Soviet Army advances in April 1945, he makes a daring escape from the Nazis. After negotiating the turmoil of postwar Poland, Haft immigrates to the United States and establishes himself as a professional prizefighter,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Alice Ernestine Prin, often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. At age 12, she first worked in shops and bakeries, but by the age of fourteen, she was posing nude for sculptors, which created discord with her mother. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the early 1920's. A painter in her own right, in 1927 Prin had a sold-out exhibition of her...
110316) Famous figures of the Civil War
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Profiles some Americans who were influential before and during the Civil War.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A historically accurate graphic-novel biography of the history-shaping abolitionist and activist's life includes coverage of her 1849 escape from slavery, her life-risking work on the Underground Railroad and her years as a champion of women's rights.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from the epicenter of American power and policy making--the White House, her beat since 1997. On behalf of the American Urban Radio Networks, and through her "Fabric of America" news blog, she delivers her readership and listeners (millions of African Americans and close to 300 radio affiliates)...
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