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Handpicked by Meghan May 2018 Hello, I am the Adult and Teen Services Associate at the River Forest Public Library. I am currently pursuing a Masters of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. My favorite hobbies include reading, travel, spending time with family, and going to see musicals. My reading tastes are all over the map, but the genres I tend to enjoy most often include history nonfiction (especially Irish or American history), psychological thrillers, humor, memoirs, and fantasy. I love to get to know the amazing patrons of RFPL and help people discover books, movies, or television shows. Let's chat about books and media!
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Lovedby Kate BowlerA divinity professor and young mother with Stage IV cancer shares her perspectives on friendship, love and death while describing her efforts to remain true to her faith in spite of impossible hardships. By the author of Blessed.
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The Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeIn a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the Worldby Pénélope BagieuThrough characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, a celebrated graphic novelist profiles the lives of formidable female role models—some world famous, some little known—including Nellie Bly, Mae Jemison, Josephine Baker, Naziq al-Abid and many others, in an entertaining, comic-style biography that is sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies. Simultaneous.
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*Highly recommended as an audiobook for his performance* The Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actor and comic shares stories from his life that recount his early years with Saturday Night Live, the development of his numerous characters, his family life and his celebrity friendships. 150,000 first printing.
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Barney MillerFollows the adventures of a New York City police captain and his detectives.
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Documentary Now!Documentary Now! is an American mockumentary television series, created by Saturday Night Live alumni Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and director Rhys Thomas, with Armisen and Hader starring in the series and Thomas co-directing. The series spoofs celebrated documentary films by parodying the style of each documentary with a similar, but fictitious, subject with Helen Mirren serving as host for the series.
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Spotlight On: Great Documentaries
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Wild Wild CountryWhen a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.
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RevolutionChronicles the events of the American Revolution.
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Going ClearExplores the controversial religion, profiling eight former members of the Church of Scientology.
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We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy CompanyThis companion documentary to HBO's acclaimed World War II miniseries 'Band of Brothers' tells the story of Easy Company through recent interviews with some of the actual veterans. Combined with the words and memories of the former soldiers is rare and archival film footage and photos that bring to vivid life their incredible achievements.
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MullyA homeless orphan in Kenya becomes a lucrative businessman, only to give it all up and open an orphanage that today serves over 2,000 Kenyan children.
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Valley Uprising: Yosemite's Rock Climbing RevolutionIn the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. Up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity -- and the laws of the land.
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