Krist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANBeall, Kreis
Summary: "The Great Blue Hills of God is the powerful, resilient memoir by the creative force behind legendary, award-winning farm-to-table resort, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee. Born with "the gift of hospitality," Kreis Beall helped create one of the South's most enchanting destinations, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee's Smoky Mountain foothills. For decades, she was a fixture in the entertaining and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Covergent Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEALL, KREIS BEAFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "Discover how Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, who was severely injured in a bus accident at age 18, taught herself to paint and became known for her striking self-portraits"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRIBeckner, Chrisanne.
Contents: Crispus Attucks -- Benjamin Banneker -- Elizabeth Freeman -- Phillis Wheatley -- Paul Cuffe -- Richard Allen -- James Forten -- Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm -- Dred Scott -- Sojourner Truth -- Nat Turner -- Martin R. Delany -- Henry H. Garnet -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Tubman -- Henry McNeal Turner -- P.B.S. Pinchback -- Robert Smalls -- Elijah McCoy -- Lewis Howard Latimer --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluewood Books 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J 973.04Paronto, Kris
Summary: The former Ranger and CIA contractor shares stories from the private sector and his military career to reveal how the values of the Ranger Creed can be applied by anyone to achieve personal victories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 356.167Krist, Gary.
Summary: "In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US KristFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUKleiner, Mariela.
Summary: A science book for preschoolers where Einstein helps to introduce kids to the concepts of light and gravity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meet Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E KleFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANTMalcolm Belc, Krys
Summary: "Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALCOM BELC, KRYS MALRubin, Kathy Kleiner
Summary: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUBIN, KATHY KLEINER RUBGeis, Patricia
Summary: Discover the magnificent art of Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance master, through this newest addition to the popular Meet the Artist! series. Leonardo's full range of work, from his exquisite paintings and sculptures to his brilliant inventions and codes, is included in this pop-up activity book. Flaps, cutouts, and pull tabs invite young readers and budding artists to engage in a hands-on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 GEIKars, Marjoleine
Summary: "The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 KARWhite, Arisa
Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MASAndrews, Arin.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ANDFaris, Anna
Summary: The popular actress shares funny stories about her misadventures with romance to offer offbeat advice on navigating the bizarre, chaotic, and ultimately worthwhile challenges of finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FARIS, ANNA FARCarmon, Irin
Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CarCarmon, Irin
Summary: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG CARKrasnow, Iris
Summary: "Iris Krasnow started going to summer camp at age 5. She sat around a fire roasting marshmallows until they burned; chased fireflies that dotted the night sky; swam in the expansive Blue Lake; and made friends that have lasted a lifetime, learning lessonsalong the way that she follows to this day. Now decades later, she returned to Camp Agawak in Wisconsin as a staff member to help resurrect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRASNOW, IRIS KRASchreier, Iris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2005
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Amis, Martin.
Summary: Gifted and innovative novelist Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'. The son of comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Talk Miramax Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 AMIIrish, Aarol W
Summary: "On May 26, 2006, one month and one day after her father's death, Teresa Irish raised the lid on the Army trunk that had resided in the family home her entire life. There, nestled in row after row, were her dad's nearly 1,000 handwritten letters from World War II. Carefully tucked away and visited only by him over the course of six decades, the letters were postmarked from November, 1942 to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [ATLH Publications] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 IRISH, AAROL W IRISummary: Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julia's deepest thoughts and feelings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co. 2010