Eckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKAston, Felicity
Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 ASTSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEVCooper, Anderson
Summary: "The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ASTOR COOCooper, Anderson
Summary: The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HOFStandiford, Les
Summary: "Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men who shaped the circus. Battle for the Big Top is the untold story of the battles of the three circus kings--James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling-all vying for control of the vastly profitable and widely influential American Circus. New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3092 STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain StandifordFinke, Michael C.
Summary: "Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure, far beyond the Russian context, as outstanding modern literary models. In a brief, remarkable life, Chekhov rose from lower-class, provincial roots to become a physician, leading writer, and philanthropist, all in the face of a progressive fatal disease. In this new biography, Michael C. Finke analyzes Chekhov's major stories, plays, and nonfiction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHEKHOV, ANTON FINLapati, JoAnna
Summary: "Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAKCoombs, Kate
Summary: John Chapman, known as "Johnny Appleseed," planted apple tree nurseries all over Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and West Virginia. He believed nobody should ever harm a living thing, so he advocated for animal rights, became a vegetarian, and planted seeds instead of grafting tree branches like most other orchardists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2020
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDTreuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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Summary: "The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.892 JOYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POKWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENSwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWAClavin, Tom
Summary: "The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CLARusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLMcGrath, Amy
Summary: "A memoir of the author's journey to becoming a fighter pilot; her twenty years in the military; and the events that led to her decision to run for U.S. Senate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGRATH, AMY MCGMorhard, Ruth Hanford
Summary: "As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the nation. Josephine Morhard's daughter-in-law recounts the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the woman who established the first boys' baseball league in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.357 MOREllingwood, Ken
Summary: "The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as "enemies of the people." In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVEJOY, ELIJAH ELLMeckler, Laura
Summary: "In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what's being done to move forward-in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MECCatton, Bruce
Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTON, BRUCE CAT1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4632 CAT
Meltzer, Brad
Summary: Profiles the legendary country music artist, reading advocate, and philanthropist who has sent over one hundred fifty million free books to children through her Imagination Library, and describes the hardships she overcame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022