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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In this long-awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers, Dillon offers a riveting true-life spy thriller told in the tradition of a family memoir"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist--an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks Michelle in a cage, tortures her repeatedly, and uses her to quench his voracious and deviant sexual whims. Michelle can also pinpoint the moment she reconstituted...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; cm
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"In January of 1963, Sharon Robinson turned thirteen the night before George Wallace declared on national television 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever' in his inauguration for governor of Alabama. That was the start of a year that would become one of the most pivotal years in the history of America. As the daughter of Jackie Robinson, Sharon had incredible access to some of the most important events of the era, including...
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"Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable...
308) Lake of the Ozarks
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (5 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 disc with PDF files
Description
Emmy Award-winning CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent Bill Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American Heartland and traces his evolution as a man and a writer while working at a resort run by his uncle. He shares laugh-out-loud anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek observations guaranteed to evoke a strong sense of nostalgia for “the good ol' days.” Written with Geistian wit and warmth, Lake of the Ozarks takes readers back to a bygone era and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
[7], i, 375 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Description
"It was an arduous upbringing on a family farm in an isolated area of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. As was tradition, father hoped his eldest son would in time take over the operation. However fourth generation rancher/farmer Willard J. Stronmg imagined a different future for himself. At the age of seventeen he woke up one morning, declined his inheritance, and waved goodbye to everything and everyone he knew. Eager to explore beyond the farm fields...
310) Passport
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
Teenage Sophia lives with her family in Central America where her parents serve as foreign diplomats, but as she explores her own boundaries around honesty and deception she discovers the true nature of her parents' work.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working-class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with eleven-year-old girls on the concrete recess battle yard of MS...
Author
Publisher
Roc Lit 101
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xix, 242 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Rich Paul grew up in a Cleveland that hadn't won a sports championship in decades. He and his siblings lived with their mother, who struggled with addiction, in a one-bedroom apartment in the poverty-stricken Glenville neighborhood. Young Rich dreamed ofbecoming a star athlete but realized quickly that his small stature would make it nearly impossible. A serious child with a mind for detail, he went to private school and then college at his shop-owner...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were...
Series
Adventures of young Indiana Jones volume 1
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (649 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join the amazing journeys of young Indy as he crosses paths with Picasso, Freud, Edison and other larger-than-life luminaries on his travels around the world.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
482 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
The author documents his experiences growing up in an eccentric society family, which was marked by his father's infidelity, his mother's post-depression international travels, and their encounters with numerous political figures.
318) The Corfu trilogy
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
756 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Consists of the popular classic "My Family and Other Animals" and its sequels, "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods". This work is set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tells the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. It also captures the beginnings of the author's lifelong love of animals.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (726 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + DVD-ROM (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
Go on spectacular journeys with young Indy as he travels through Europe, Africa and Asia and comes face to face with Vladimir Lenin, Charles de Gaulle, The Red Baron, and other fascinating characters during the turbulent years of World War I.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Description
"Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America, where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream"--
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