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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Von Drehle, Dave
Set against the background of the struggles of Italian and Jewish immigrants, corrupt city politics, and the rise of the fashion industry, "Triangle" is the story of the fire that broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911. A gripping, page-turning tale relating the horror of the disaster with little graphic detail.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 974.71 V]
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Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
Barra, Allen
In this comprehensive and incredibly engaging biography, each of Berra's baseball highlights (10 American League Pennants, 8 World Series Championships and 3 Most Valuable Player awards) is meticulously described. From his childhood growing up in St Louis, Missouri's Italian neighborhood to his postplayer roles as a manager and coach Barra covers it all and what we embrace throughout is a great athlete and a good guy.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 921 B4493]
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Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Hari, Daoud
Daoud Hari belongs to the Zaghawa tribe from Darfur (Sudan). After his village was distroyed by the Sudan military and rebels he escaped to a refuge camp in Chad. There he put his limited English and fluency in Arabic and Zaghawa to work risking his life to act as a translator for journalists from all over the world wanting to interview people still alive in villages in Darfur.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 962.4043 H]
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Jim the Boy
Earley, Tony
Living in 1934 Aliceville, North Carolina, 10-year-old Jim Glass lives on a farm with his widowed mother and three uncles. The pleasures in Jim's life are simple: getting a new baseball and playing baseball against the mountain boys; driving with one of his uncles to buy a horse and to see the Atlantic Ocean; making friends with a rival at school; climbing a greased pole at the fair; and being teased by his uncles. The central focus of the novel is the love that binds together members of this atypical family and the quietly affectionate way in which they interact. This is a deceptively gentle, nostalgic look at childhood during an era when life was by turns harsh and hopeful. Jim is a real boy who can be selfish and stubborn and then determined and giving.
[Adult Fiction Book EARLEY]
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Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
Griffith, Cary
Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old Eagle Scout, was spending the summer of 1998 as a guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). While leading a group of 8 boy scouts and their 2 leaders, Dan stepped into the woods alone to look for the next canoe portage and didn't return. In October of 2001, Jason Rasmussen, a third year medical student, decided to go on a three day hike alone in the BWCA. On the first day he took a wrong turn on the unmarked 26 mile Pow Wow Trail and became hopelessly lost in an area of dense brush, bogs, and beaver ponds. Griffith skillfully interweaves the extraordinary stories of these two young men and those who searched for them.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 613.69 G]
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Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska
Kantner, Seth
Born in 1965 in a sod igloo in Arctic Alaska and raised in the ways of the Inupiaq people, Kantner shares true stories of his tundra experiences from childhood through adulthood. Kantner testifies to the immense challanges of day-to-day survival in a homemade sod igloo, a structure that was regularly buried by sudden snow squalls, in a climate where "frostbite was a way of life." While the chapters, containing pictures taken by the author, read like individual stories it is the entire book's beauty I found outstanding. A wonderful story for those loving true-life tales and especially those with an interest in nature and Native American life.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 921 K1336]
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Wesley the Owl
O'Brien, Stacey
Calling all nature and animal lovers. In 1985 Caltech student researcher O'Brien adopted an injured four-day-old barn owl that she named Wesley. For 19 years she kept, cared for and studied him, forging a tremendous relationship with the still-wild animal, as well as a vast understanding of his abilities, instincts and habits. This heartwarming, captivating memoir contains many humorous moments.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 598.97 O]
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mathabane, Mark
An eye-opening account of the horrors faced by Mathabane and his family while he was growing up in the most desperate ghetto in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. Only through the encouragement and hard work of his mother and grandmother was he able to finish school and overcome the odds placed before him. Those needing graphic confirmation of the harrowing experience of growing up poor and black in apartheid South Africa will find it in Mathabane's autobiography.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 968.00496 M]
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Chief Bender's Burden
Swift, Tom
Born in1884 near Brainerd, Minnesota, Charles (Chief) Albert Bender began learning the skills to play baseball while living at the Carlisle Indian School, which he started attending in 1896. He pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics, managed by Connie Mack, from 1903-1914, was one of the greatest clutch pitchers of his time, and amassed impressive numbers for a great team. In 1953 he became the first Native American ball player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 796.35709 S]
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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Kerasote, Ted
Attention all dog lovers: Here is yet another humorous, jubilant and touching story of the relationship between a man and his dog. Ted Kerasote was camping, kayaking and rafting down the San Juan River with friends when a big golden dog (he names Merle) came out of the night seemingly from nowhere into their campsite. Kerasote proceeds to relate the next 13 years of Merle's life with him while exploring the science behind canine behavior and evolution weaving in research on the human - canine bond and musing on the way dogs see the world. A must read if you enjoyed Marley and Me by John Grogan and books by James Herriot and Jon Katz.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 636.70929 K]
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