DuVal, Kathleen
Summary: "In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 DUVHolley, 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 HOLPedder, Sophie
Summary: "He emerged from nowhere to seize the presidency, defeat populism and upend French party politics. Who is Emmanuel Macron? How far can he really change France? In Revolution Française, Sophie Pedder examines the first year in office of France's youngest and most exciting president in modern times, with unique perspective from her time as head of The Economist's Paris bureau. President Emmanuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Continuum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACRON, EMMANUEL PEDCutright, Patricia J.
Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTShulman, Mark
Summary: "Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. Franklin's research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAKlagsbrun, Francine
Summary: "The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEIR, GOLDA MEIUrschel, Joe
Summary: "It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 URSKennedy, Katie
Summary: "Some call it the most important job in the world. It's certainly the most powerful. And it's one that every citizen needs to know about because we're the ones who vote to put a president in office. Lively, informative, filled with firsts and facts, big ideas and compelling anecdotes, The Presidents Decoded is a richly layered guide to the leaders who have shaped our country."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 KENCohen, Rich
Summary: Over three months in the summer before the Civil War, New York suffered a massacre, a flight, a manhunt, and a trial, all of which kept the nation riveted and remade Albert Hicks, the last pirate of New York, into a celebrated antihero. For years Hicks operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime. In 1860 he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019