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Warren-Newport Public Library > Posts tagged biography

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Let’s Talk Books! I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

March 15, 2022March 12, 2022 Jessica Stalker

In the video below, Jessica talks about the unique memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell. Does this sound good to you? Find this item in our catalog!

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Afghan Authors to Read Now

August 23, 2021September 3, 2021 Jessica Stalker
Afghanistan countryside

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The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Jessica Stalker

James J. Strang was the founder and ruling figure of The Church of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), a small splinter group of Mormons that formed in the power vacuum left by the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844. Strang persuaded Read More …

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The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby

August 12, 2019August 9, 2019 admin

The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby is an unconventional picture book biography of the acclaimed children’s author.  In 42 pages (one for each year of her life) Barnett details the important things of Read More …

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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

April 22, 2019May 16, 2019 Jessica Stalker

Author Dani Shapiro has spent her career writing about her fraught relationship with her Orthodox Jewish parents. Imagine her surprise at the age of 54 when she found out–through a home DNA testing kit–that the man she thought was her Read More …

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