Ward, Logan.
Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home WardWard, Logan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WARSummary: When General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, it marked the end of a terrible period of conflict that nearly destroyed the United States. But it also marked the beginning of a period of recovery that was in many ways as painful as the war itself. Freed blacks remained essentially enslaved, and race and tax riots, marauders and insurgents, profiteers, carpetbaggers, the KKK, and Jesse...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Reasoner, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REAWinik, Jay
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.738 WINMarcovitz, Hal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH MARSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIMitchell, Jerry
Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MITButcher, Bernard Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3754 B1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3754 Butch
Capaldi, Gina.
Summary: Zitkala-Š̌̌̌a finds that she can sing through her music, but also by writing stories and giving speeches and being an activist for Native American rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native CapaldiBannister, Nonna
Contents: Boarding the train -- Baby Sarah -- Before the Holocaust -- Move to Taganrog -- Move to Rostov-on-Don -- A day in the park -- The depression in Russia: Stalin's power -- Winter vacation with babushka at the dacha -- Our journey by train -- Homecoming welcome -- Our fun time begins -- Christmas church service -- Christmas Day 1932 -- Reflections on childhood -- Back to reality: 1933 -- Troubled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BANLevine, Karen
Summary: A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 LEVKrensky, Stephen
Summary: Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEOSummary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIMGordon-Reed, Annette.
Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 GORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings GorPrice, David A. (David Andrew)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5425 PRIStanley, Diane.
Summary: "Born in 1452 to a peasant woman and a country gentleman, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most amazing people who ever lived. He grew up to be a great painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. As a boy, Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist. But he quickly became more skillful than his teacher, and his passionate interests went far beyond art. Fascinated with the human body,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1996
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LEOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio DavinciCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DA VIN STAGoodman, Joan E.
Summary: Traces the epic journey of the Portuguese explorer who, five years after Columbus set sail, traveled around the southernmost tip of Africa to find a sea route to India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GAMMcCartney, Martha W.
Summary: "A detailed look at the people associated with Jamestown from its founding in 1607 to 1800. Based on government records and private archives, it provides historical biographies of several distinct groups of people: Jamestown Island landowners, public officials, Native-American leaders, and African Americans associated with Jamestown. It also covers more than a thousand people who did not own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3755 McCARCoates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COAWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Rich in narrative history and local color, A small town love story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 WOOWayland-Smith, Ellen.
Summary: "Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7 WAYSummary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017