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TEEN BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER
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CD BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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CD BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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967.571 WAMARIYA
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967.571 WAMARIYA
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CD 967.571 WAMARIYA
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CD 967.571 WAMARIYA
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"Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for...
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BIOGRAPHY VANCE J. D.
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BIOGRAPHY VANCE J. D.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN BIOGRAPHY VANCE
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY VANCE
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CD BIOGRAPHY VANCE J. D.
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LARGE TYPE 305.562 VANCE
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LARGE TYPE 305.562 VANCE
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
CD 510.92 SHETTERLY
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CD 510.92 SHETTERLY
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"Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
791.44 SCHWARTZ
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791.44 SCHWARTZ
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CD 791.44 SCHWARTZ
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CD 791.44 SCHWARTZ
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call...
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362.293 QUINONES
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362.293 QUINONES
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN HEALTH ADDICTION QUINONES
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TEEN HEALTH ADDICTION QUINONES
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"With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two tales of capitalism catastrophically run amok. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating...
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BIOGRAPHY NOAH TREVOR
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BIOGRAPHY NOAH TREVOR
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN BIOGRAPHY NOAH
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY NOAH
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN CD BIOGRAPHY NOAH
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TEEN CD BIOGRAPHY NOAH
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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TEEN HISTORY AMERICAN MOORE
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TEEN HISTORY AMERICAN MOORE
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CD 363.1799 MOORE
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CD 363.1799 MOORE
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LARGE TYPE 363.1799 MOORE
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LARGE TYPE 363.1799 MOORE
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As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
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TRUE CRIME SERIAL MCNAMARA
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TRUE CRIME SERIAL MCNAMARA
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CD TRUE CRIME MCNAMARA
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CD TRUE CRIME MCNAMARA
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LARGE TYPE 364.1523 MCNAMARA
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LARGE TYPE 364.1523 MCNAMARA
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"A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding...
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616.99424 KALANITHI
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616.99424 KALANITHI
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CD 616.99424 KALANITHI
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CD 616.99424 KALANITHI
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LARGE TYPE 616.99424 KALANITHI
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LARGE TYPE 616.99424 KALANITHI
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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...
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BIOGRAPHY HINTON ANTHONY RAY
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BIOGRAPHY HINTON ANTHONY RAY
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"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. It was a case of mistaken identity, and Hinton believed that the truth would prove his innocence. Sentenced to death by electrocution, he spent his first three years at Holman State Prison full of...
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As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 of these German-born...
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
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BIOGRAPHY CHUNG NICOLE
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BIOGRAPHY CHUNG NICOLE
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"What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better...