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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Digital Edition April 2020
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Our building may be closed, but our online resources are always available! Access thousands of ebooks and audiobooks, including the hottest new titles, from your tablet or smartphone using Libby and Hoopla. Get the app for your phone or tablet. Below you will find a few our favorite titles!
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Audiobook Available on Hoopla! eBook Available on Libby!
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Untamed by Glennon DoyleAn activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost. eBook and Audiobook Available on Libby!
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The unexpected spy : from the CIA to the FBI, my secret life taking down some of the world's most notorious terrorists by Tracy WalderA highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. Audiobook Available on Libby!
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As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction by Daniel PeresThe award-winning former editor-in-chief of Details presents a cautionary memoir that reveals his celebrity encounters and private life as an opioid addict, detailing how his addiction significantly impacted his life and career. eBook Available on Libby!
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War doctor : surgery on the front line by David NottA doctor who has worked in every military conflict zone since the end of the Cold War discusses how he performs life-saving surgery under the most challenging conditions as well as his struggles returning to normal life back home. eBook Available on Libby!
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The Lowells of Massachusetts : an American family by Nina SankovitchDescribes the story and contributions of the Lowells, a Boston family that came to the New World in the 1600s and prospered, with members including merchants, manufacturers, a member of the Continental Congress, two famous poets and a controversial president of Harvard. Audiobook Available on Hoopla!
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All this marvelous potential : Robert Kennedy's 1968 tour of Appalachia by Matthew AlgeoIn early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of Eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Author Matthew Algeo meticulously retraces RFK's tour of the region, visiting the places he visited and meeting with the people he met, and explains how and why the region has changed since 1968, and why it matters for the rest of the country. eBook and Audiobook Available on Hoopla!
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eBook Available on Hoopla!
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eBook Available on Hoopla!
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A Bookshop in Berlin : The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise FrenkelIn 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. eBook Available on Libby!
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