Rissman, Rebecca
Summary: In "narrative nonfiction format, this ... book follows a selection of people who experienced the 2011 Japan Tsunami"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.34 RISSussman, Jeffrey
Summary: "Sin City Gangsters is an exciting page-turner about how the mob created and controlled modern Las Vegas and then lost it to Corporate America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 SUSJarman, Cat
Summary: An acclaimed bioarchaeologist traces the path of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, explaining that the Vikings' route may have been far more varied than previously known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 JARAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYRoker, Al
Summary: Presents an account of the legendary hurricane to assess its destruction of Galveston, role in thousands of deaths, and influence on American history and culture. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.8 ROKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 ROKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 ROKGayle, Caleb
Summary: "A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.004 GAYSmith, Carl S.
Summary: "Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in barely three decades, from just over 4,000 in 1840 to greater than 330,000 at the time of the fire. Built hastily, the city was largely made of wood. Once it began in the barn of Catherine and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 SMICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.3 SMISummary: Of the many themes that characterize U.S. history, immigration is one of the most constant and most pervasive. Since the first European and African immigrants began arriving in North America during the early seventeenth century, immigrants have steadily poured into what is now the United States. During the early twenty-first century, that flow has continued unabated--the major difference being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing/Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Service 2015
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2 available in Reference, Call number: R 325 ISS VOL 1Call number: R 325 ISS VOL 2
Ball, Alverne
Summary: "In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.68 BALBall, Erica
Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021