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Summary: The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 CEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 CEPLakin, Patricia
Summary: Profiles Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and who disappeared during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LAKKemp, Guy
Summary: As his life unfolds before you, Guy Kemp shares his experiences and life-changing decisions during his first 72 years, after his adoption at age four. Life with a new family, a new name, and frequent change of surroundings comes with challenges. But Guy faces the obstacles head-onand learns to handle adversity in his own, interesting -- and sometimes surprising ways. He takes you across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lovstad Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEMP, GUY KEMKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENLaskin, David
Summary: "Narrative account of how twelve immigrant soldiers became Americans through fighting in World War I"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.48173 LASFriedman, Tova
Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIDemi.
Summary: Presents an illustrated biography of Joan of Arc, from her early vision of Archangel Michael to her military victories, and eventual execution at the stake for heresy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOABlay, Zeba
Summary: "An Empowering and Celebratory Portrait of Black Women-from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a way tocarve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online." In this collection of essays, Blay expands on this initial idea by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 BLALarman, Alexander
Summary: "Alexander Larman, the master chronicler of the House of Windsor, brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion. When the Royal Family took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945, they knew that the happiness and excitement of the day was illusory. Britain may have been victorious in a painful war, but the peace would be no easier. Between the abdication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.20973 KAGANOVICH FAMILY LASDemi
Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANDemi.
Summary: A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TERLaskin, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US LaskinDemi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DALDemi.
Summary: Shares the story of the son of a rich merchant, who abandoned all his worldly goods in order to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2012
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Summary: Recounts pivotal events in the history and life of Saint Nicholas, including how he came to be associated with Christmas and Santa Claus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday DemiDemi.
Summary: Describes the life and journeys of the Italian trader who became famous for his travels in Asia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 915.04 DEMZee, Ginger
Summary: When Ginger Zee opened her life to readers in Natural Disaster, the response was enormous. She put a very relatable if surprising face on depression and has helped lessen the stigma surrounding mental health issues. But Ginger tells us, Natural Disaster was ""Ginger Lite" and only scratched the surface. In this moving follow-up, Ginger shares her truest self. She spent most of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZEE, GINGER ZEELarman, Alexander
Summary: A definitive account of the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 draws on archival material and interviews with the king's closest friends to detail the role played by the king's opponents and supporters and the resulting scandal at a time when war was imminent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.084 LARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LARLarman, Alexander
Summary: "The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LARLarkin, Emma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.9104 LARLarkin, Emma.
Summary: A deeply reported account of life inside Burma in the months following the disastrous Cyclone Nargis and an analysis of the brutal totalitarian regime that clings to power in the devastated nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.105 LARDemi.
Summary: Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018