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Baseball players Puerto Rico Biography Comic books, strips, etc Biological control systems Clemente, Roberto 1934-1972 Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Life (Biology) Nature Effect of human beings on Self-confidence Wetland conservation Michigan Wetlands Michigan Women BiographyMcClay, Wilfred M.
Summary: We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MCCMcCoy, Alfred W.
Summary: "In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony--covert intervention, client...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 MCCFarkas, J. M.
Summary: "A lyrical picture book biography about American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's childhood and the two sisters who inspired her Good things come in threes, like peas like wishes like sisters. Vincent-American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay-began writing andpublishing poetry as a child. She grew up in coastal Maine with her two sisters and plenty of books, music, and nature, but often without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MILCopeland, Alfred M. (Alfred Minott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clark W. Bryan & Co., Printers 1892
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 CopelCopeland, Alfred M 1830-
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1967
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3744 CShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEMcClay, Renie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Book Network 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MCCSummary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERCwikiel, Wilfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.68 CWICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature CwikielRembert, Winfred
Summary: "A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery-a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REMBERT, WINFRED REMSummary: Comprising elements of travelogue, history lesson, biography, critical analysis, psychological study, and fan testimonial, this documentary explores the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald, via a long walk through coastal East Anglia, retracing the steps he took in his most famous book, The rings Of Saturn. Includes interviews with writers, artists, and filmmakers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild/Spark 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PATBlevins, Winfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLECwikiel, Wilfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.68 CWISantiago, Wilfred.
Summary: A graphic depiction of the life of Roberto Clemente that discusses his childhood, success in baseball, mission off the field, death, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction SantiagoMcLay, Brooke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media Corp 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.554 MCLSummary: Rick McKay filmed over one hundred of Broadway and Hollywood's greatest stars. In their own words they tell how they came to New York and created this legendary century in American theatre, thereby preserving the memories of historic Broadway performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dada Films/RCA Victor/BMG 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROWHITERN, WILFRED L.
Summary: Covers the selection and care of guppies, equipment for breeding, diseases, foods and feeding, diseases, selecting breeding stock, breeding guppies, and inheritance in the guppy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.3753 WHIWalker, Sally M.
Summary: Combining science with poetry, this collection of haiku extols the wonder of trees through poems that engage with every season and stage of the life cycle, from seed to photosynthesis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 WALMcCay, Layla
Summary: A compelling look at the challenges facing LGBTQ+ professionals as they navigate their careers - with advice from many senior figures who have smashed their own rainbow ceilings. There are currently only four LGBTQ+ CEOs across all Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies who are out at work, and just 0.8% of Fortune 500 board positions are filled by LGBTQ+ people. This deficit, occurring across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Business 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 MCCSheed, Wilfrid
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SHESheed, Wilfrid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.914 SHELupano, Wilfrid
Summary: "The Old Geezers tells the story of three septuagenarians who have been friends since childhood: Antoine, Emile, and Pierrot. They have each taken different paths in life, made different choices, and started (or not) their own families. The series moves back and forth between the 50s and the present day, telling the tragic-comic tale of our time, with all of its social, political, and cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUPSHEED, WILFRID
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974