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Summary: "The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEVI FRAStein, Gertrude
Summary: "Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, now illustrated by Maira Kalman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOKLAS, ALICE B. STEGillibrand, Kirsten
Summary: Profiles ten women who fought hard to gain the right to vote in the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Inez Milholland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GILKalman, Maira.
Summary: "Sheds light on the fascinating life and interests of the Renaissance man who was our third president"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEFCohen, Ari Seth.
Summary: A collection of street fashion focused on the over-60 set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Power House Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.3 CohenKalman, Maira.
Summary: Wanting to know about the real man behind the sixteenth president's legendary character, a little girl learns about Lincoln's beliefs regarding universal freedom as well as lesser-known aspects of his life, from his love of Mozart and his wife's vanilla cake to his pet dog and the way he kept notes in his stovepipe hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINKalman, Maira.
Summary: Filled with original art and photographs by the author who is also an illustrator and designer, each chapter represents a month of Kalman's yearlong travel across the U.S. and her reflections on democracy. She starts with a celebration of Barack Obama's Presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., continues with the month of February and Abraham Lincoln, and explores democracy and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 KALSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: A dog attempts to cheer up his friend, a despondent bird, in a tale that introduces a series of words from "baby" to "haberdashery."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SNIKalman, Maira.
Summary: The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman. Her brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images--which initially appear random--ultimately form an intricately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KalmanStrunk, William
Summary: An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 808.02 STRKalman, Maira.
Summary: When Pete the dog, who has an insatiable appetite, arrives at school he and his owner are sent to the principal's office, where he devours a set of encyclopedias and is suddenly able to speak and answer any question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KALKalman, Maira.
Summary: A fireboat, launched in 1931, is retired after many years of fighting fires along the Hudson River, but is saved from being scrapped and then called into service again on September 11, 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 974.7 KALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KALKalman, Maira.
Summary: In this alphabet book, a child relates some of the unusual things eaten by Pete the dog, including an accordion, a lucky quarter, and cousin Rocky's underpants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001