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The hookah girl and other true stories

Dabaie, Marguerite, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Book

Call Number

920.71 DAB

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SD_ILS:463813

Saving five : a memoir of hope

Nguyen, Amanda, 1991- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.88392 NGU

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SD_ILS:795160

King of the North : Martin Luther King's life of struggle outside the South

Theoharis, Jeanne, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

323 THE

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SD_ILS:802832

Alligator tears : a memoir in essays

Gomez, Edgar (Writer), author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

306.7662 GOM

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SD_ILS:804084

Fearless and free : a memoir

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

927.928 BAK

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SD_ILS:791146

The invisible spy : Churchill's Rockefeller Center spy ring and America's first secret agent of World War II

Maier, Thomas, 1956- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

327.1273 MAI

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SD_ILS:796418

Reading the waves : a memoir

Yuknavitch, Lidia, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

813.6 YUK

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SD_ILS:796447

Written in the waters : a memoir of history, home, and belonging

Roberts, Tara, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

920.573 ROB

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SD_ILS:796473

Antisemitism in America : a warning

Schumer, Charles E., author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

305.8924 SCH

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SD_ILS:795025

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One day, everyone will have always been against this

El Akkad, Omar, 1982- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

819.36 ELA

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SD_ILS:795142

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Harriet Tubman : military scout and tenacious visionary : from her roots in Ghana to her legacy on the Eastern Shore

Wiesen, Jean Marie, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

973.7115 WIE

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SD_ILS:804122

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Who I always was : a memoir

Okokon, Theresa, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

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Call Number

814.6 OKO

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SD_ILS:804184

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Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.

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Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction (2022) -- Nominee.

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Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943.

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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

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Anderson, Scott, 1959- author.

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Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975, author.

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Bennett, Juda, 1955- author.

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Brown, Monica, 1969- author.

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Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970- author.

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Canadian Literature Centre.

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Carlsen, William, 1945- author.

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Daniels, Jeff, 1955- voice actor.

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Davis, Kenneth C., author.

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Davis, Viola, 1965- author.

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Davis, Viola, 1965- writer of foreword.

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Day, Daniel R., author.

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Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author.

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