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Summary: "A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author's acclaimed first volume, from our nation's earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KAGCohen-Solal, Annie
Summary: "A groundbreaking new study of Pablo Picasso that reveals how the artist fought to overcome the stigma he faced as a foreigner in France"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO COHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO COHMowry, George Edwin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1958
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.911 MOWEvans, Mike
Summary: Charts the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.5 EVABaxter, John
Summary: "The Walt Disney Company honors its 100th anniversary in 2023. As part of the festivities, this must-have coffee table book showcases the company's history and rich legacy--past, present, and future--through vibrant voices and rare Disney concept art and photographs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.8 BAXWaldman, Carl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 WALSummary: "Reprints complete comic book and comic strip stories, most of which are being reprinted here for the first time since their initial publication"--jacket note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADRoe, Sue
Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROEKunitz, Stanley
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Publisher / Publication Date: The H. W. Wilson company 1938
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 920 KUNBrooks, Adrian
Summary: Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 BROMorris, Jan
Contents: The 1950s -- Mount Everest, 1953 -- A benign republic: USA -- Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East -- South African White and Black -- Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean -- Europe: after the war was over -- Orientalisms: The Far East -- The 1960s -- The Eichmann Trial -- The Cold War -- South American frissons -- Oxford, 1965 -- Australia -- A New Africa -- Manhattan, 1969 -- The 1970s --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.825 MORSummary: Encapsulating the people, places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years, this book arrives in time to be a major gift book of the season. Beautifully illustrated and produced, it offers more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, creating an extraordinary chronicle of our history and an essential volume for any family library. A collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 LETSummary: "Conceived and produced in association with the Renaissance society of America, this work presents a panoramic view of the cultural movement and the period of history beginning in Italy from approximately 1350, broadening geographically to include the rest of Europe by the middle-to-late-15th century, and ending in the early 17th century. Each of the nearly 1,200 entries provides a learned and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America 1999
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Richardson, John
Summary: This volume reveals the young artist Pablo Picasso in the somewhat rebellious role of "the painter of modern life", a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great breakthrough painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, " with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICHotten, John Camden
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1962
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.373 HotteSando, Mike
Summary: It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for generations: Who's the best? Of the more than 25,000 men who have suited up during the NFL's century of existence, which ones stood head and shoulders above all others? At The Athletic, home to the best newsroom in sports, this question would become a labor of love for dozens of the best football writers on the planet, including Mike Sando...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 SANMann, Elizabeth
Summary: The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.71 MANWinik, Jay
Summary: It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink, Russia was a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these events occurred in isolation. Here, historian Winik shows how their fates combined to change the course of civilization. Here is a savage world war, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 WINDavenport, Matthew J.
Summary: "Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 DAVCroghan, Melissa
Summary: "This book turns the spotlight on thirteen women who were leaders on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the 19th and early 20th centuries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2011