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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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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
616.99419 JAOUAD
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616.99419 JAOUAD
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An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
A few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
967.571 WAMARIYA
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967.571 WAMARIYA
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
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 JOLLETT MIKEL
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BIOGRAPHY JOLLETT MIKEL
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
CD BIOGRAPHY JOLLETT MIKEL
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CD BIOGRAPHY JOLLETT MIKEL
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"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or...