Cullen, Lynn
Summary: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULChen, Katherine J.
Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChenSummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOGutman, Dan.
Summary: Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTHarris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARMontt, Alberto
Summary: "Este libro es un homenaje a la raza que desde tiempos inmemoriables impulsó la construcción de pirámides, inspiró a dioses, propició memes y acompañó a nuestros solteros y solteras empedernidos hasta el fin de los tiempos." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MONSchwabach, Karen
Summary: In 1848, eleven-year-old Bridie runs away to Seneca Falls, New York, where she meets a free black girl named Rose and gets caught up in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's plans for a women's rights convention. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHSummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSRichards, Lynette
Summary: "It was April 1, 1873. In the middle of the night, Sarah Jane spotted flares off the coast of her island home. She woke her father, who quickly gathered their neighbours. Over the next several hours, rescuers pulled 429 traumatized survivors out of the wreckage of the SS Atlantic. But 535 people didn't survive, including Bill, a sailor. However, this story isn't about death--it's about living....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emanata 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 RICMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: "The time has come for Tokiyuki and Yorishige's allies in Shinano to make their move against their enemies, the devious governor Ogasawara and the evil kokushi, Kiyohara. But in order to get the campaign going, Tokiyuki must earn the respect of Yorishige's warriors, and to do that, he'll need to engage his old nemesis, the wily Shokan. Shokan is no fool, however, and Tokiyuki will have to come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUDionne, Erin
Summary: Excited to give his report on explorer Ernest Shackleton in school, and frustrated by a monstrous snowstorm that has left his family and city snowbound, a boy imagines himself on a voyage where he and his crew (his family) are trapped by the ice, just like his favorite explorer and the ship Endurance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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Summary: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphia 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LAFHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADPolacco, Patricia
Summary: One afternoon, Jonathan Harker Weeks didn’t feel like practicing the piano. So his grandfather decided to tell him a story to show how much of an impact music can have. When he was a child growing up poor in Ireland, his mother made sure he learned to play the fiddle, despite their challenges. After his mother passed away and he was on his own, Jonathan’s grandfather fell asleep hiding in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2019Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLCharman, Katrina
Summary: "A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. Now the lone survivor of his family and a fugitive, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he’ll have to do what he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAT (Graphic Novel)Benedict, Marie
Summary: "The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GIBBlake, Michael
Summary: In his New York Times bestselling novel Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake created an unforgettable saga of white and Native American cultures. Now in Marching to Valhalla, Blake unfolds the story of the final months of General George Armstrong Custer, a story that illuminates the epic sweep of his entire life--his career, his passions, his legacy to the American west. Here is Custer as we've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLABehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEHTourville, Jacqueline.
Summary: Because three-year-old Albie, who would one day be known as Albert Einstein, has never spoken, his concerned family takes him to a doctor who recommends a series of activities that might stimulate him to talk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATDe Angeli, Marguerite
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel-Leaf Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DE AMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthright by running away! In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023