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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.546 COLTurner, Glennette Tilley
Summary: "A daring account of Black Seminole warrior, chief, and diplomat John Horse and the route he forged on the Underground Railroad to gain freedom for his people. John Horse (c. 1812-1882, also known as Juan Caballo) was a famed chief, warrior, tactician, and diplomat who played a dominant role in Black Seminole affairs for half a century. His story is central to that of the Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HORPelley, Scott
Summary: Gallantry: The FDNY -- Resolve: President Bush on 9/11 -- Field note: Meeting the late Don Hewitt in Botswana -- Selflessness: Paulette Schank -- Authenticity: Bruce Springsteen -- Devotion: David Hall -- Field note: Kremlin rules -- Audacity: Ben Bernanke -- Invincibility: Nadia Murad -- Field note: No moss gathers -- Gratitude: early lessons -- Field note: Do you believe in signs? -- Duty:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PELLEY PELCollet, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 COLTillet, Salamishah
Summary: A distinguished cultural critic blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813 TILTownley, Alvin.
Summary: "The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TOWTownley, Alvin
Summary: "Naval aviator Jeremiah Denton was captured in North Vietnam in 1965. As a POW, Jerry Denton led a group of fellow American prisoners in withstanding gruesome conditions behind enemy lines. They developed a system of secret codes and covert communicationsto keep up their spirits. Later, he would endure long periods of solitary confinement. Always, Jerry told his fellow POWs that they would one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DENHoller, Anne.
Summary: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1993
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 975 HOLMorley, Jefferson
Summary: CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells Angleton's dramatic story. From the agency's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGLETON, JAMES JESUS MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ANGLETON MORMorley, Jefferson.
Summary: Portrays how the 19th century struggle against slavery erupted in Washington DC, thrusting the ambitious District Attorney Francis Scott Key into a uniquely American battle for justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MORHolley, Santi Elijah
Summary: "A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HOLMulley, Clare
Summary: "Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MULMorley, Anders
Summary: "A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORLEY, ANDERS MORMorley, Jefferson
Summary: "For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 MORHowley, Kerry
Summary: "Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.3 HOWWilley, Liane Holliday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind WilleyRowley, Hazel.
Summary: Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention--private and public--that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring--a partnership that they created according to their own ambitions and needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN & ELEANOR ROWConley, Dalton
Summary: Outlines an engaged approach to child-rearing that is based on strategies for fostering child creativity and confidence, describing the author's experiences with such methods as bribing, conditioning psychology, and placebo medications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 CONBarone, Rebecca (Rebecca E.)
Summary: "In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.89 BARBolles, Edmund Blair
Contents: A radical fact resisted -- The opposite of an intriguer -- Not German at all -- I never fully understood it -- Independence and inner freedom -- A mercy of fate -- Picturesque phrases -- Scientific dada -- Such a devil of a fellow -- Intuition and inspiration -- Bold, not to say reckless -- A completely new lesson -- Slaves to time and space -- Where all weaker imaginations wither -- A triumph...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joseph Henry Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 BOLToomey-Orr, Tia-Clair
Summary: Tia Toomey, the world's fittest woman, has won the CrossFit Games an incredible six years in a row and is undeniably a true warrior. She has also trained for the Winter Olympics in bobsledding, competed in the Summer Olympics in weightlifting, and was a Commonwealth Games gold medalist. She is, in short, one of the most accomplished and dominant athletes in human history. But for Tia physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 TOOJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILAldridge, Rebecca.
Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the third president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JEFFERSON ALDPitts, Rebecca
Summary: "Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized-about cities, about people, about making a better world-remain hugely relevant today. Now, in Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People, we have the first biography for young people of the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker. Debut author Rebecca Pitts draws on archives and Jacobs's own writings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023