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Wrecked : Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Thrush, Coll.

Publication Date

2025

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SD_ILS:810344

14.

The harder I fight the more I love you : a memoir

Case, Neko, author.

Publication Date

2025

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Books

Call Number

927.8242 CAS

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SD_ILS:729920

15.

Source code : my beginnings

Gates, Bill, 1955- author.

Publication Date

2025

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Call Number

923.387 GAT

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SD_ILS:729959

16.

Fearless and free : a memoir

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975, author.

Publication Date

2025

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Call Number

927.928 BAK

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SD_ILS:791146

17.

Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old [CD] : thoughts on aging as a woman

Shields, Brooke, 1965- author, narrator.

Publication Date

2025

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927.9143 SHI

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SD_ILS:792326

18.

The ABCs of women's history

Cortez, Rio, author.

Publication Date

2025

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305.42 COR

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SD_ILS:794027

19.

Becoming a ballerina : the story of Michaela Mabinty DePrince

Obuobi, Laura, author.

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2025

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792.8 OBU

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SD_ILS:794033

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Fighter in the woods : the true story of a Jewish girl who joined the partisans in World War II

Greene, Joshua, 1950- author.

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2025

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940.5318 GRE

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SD_ILS:794055

21.

Game changers : stories of hijabi athletes from around the world

Smith, Charlene, author.

Publication Date

2025

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Call Number

796 SMI

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SD_ILS:794058

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I am Sally Ride

Meltzer, Brad, author.

Publication Date

2025

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629.45 MEL

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SD_ILS:794077

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Prince among slaves : the remarkable true story of an African prince enslaved in Mississippi, and his journey home

Senzai, N. H., author.

Publication Date

2025

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Call Number

306.362 SEN

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SD_ILS:794106

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Roald Dahl

Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel), author.

Publication Date

2025

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823.914 SAN

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SD_ILS:794107

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Case, Neko.

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Container of (expression): Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Poems. Selections. English.

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