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bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. discography encyclopedia History. Juvenile works.Summary: Profiles one hundred and one people who have enacted social change in the United States, including Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Bob Dylan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 ONESummary: Follows a group of young adventurers as they echo an expedition first made 40 years ago by Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia) and Doug Tompkins (original founder of The North Face). Navigating from California to Chile, with an unplanned stop at Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the modern day adventurers explore the wild coasts and mountains of Patagonia. During their quest to surf and climb, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia Books 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What do Julius Caesar, Rosa Parks, and Vincent van Gogh all have in common? They're all fascinating figures who shaped our world! Learn about these and so many more historical VIPs in 30 People Who Changed the World, brought to you by today's award-winning and best-known children's authors. In this collection of 30 essays, each historical figure has a short piece -- called a "nonfiction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 THIContents: She went by gently / Paul Vincent Carroll -- The islandman / Desmond Clarke -- The lady on the Grey / John Collier -- The awakening ; The return / Daniel Corkery -- Saint Bakeoven / Eric Cross -- The kith of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany -- The burial / St. John Ervine -- Something in a boat / Padraic Fallon -- Miss Gillespie and the micks / Arnold Hill -- The leaping trout / David Hogan -- Araby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Devin-Adair Co. 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC Forty fourContents: Now more important than ever : voices of reason / Russell -- Blackford and Udo Schüklenk -- Unbelievable! / Russell Blackford -- My "bye bull" story / Margaret Downey -- How benevolent is God? : an argument from suffering to atheism / Nicholas Everitt -- A deal-breaker / Ophelia Benson -- Why am I a nonbeliever? : I wonder... / J.L. Schellenberg -- Wicked or dead : reflections on the moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 FIFSummary: Profiles the life of Abigail Adams, John Adams' wife, focusing on her experiences during the American Revolution and how her role in Adams' presidency would set the standard for future first ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB ADAMS ORRSummary: A twenty-one volume encyclopedia with 32,000 entries and more than 16,000 illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Members of the band offer an inside chronicle of their careers as musicians, songwriters, performers, and colleagues, discussing the evolution of their music and their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 ACCSummary: From the top of Everest to the deepest recesses of previously unexplored caves, from the heart of the sea to the far reaches of space, African American explorers and adventurers have helped chart the unknown, push the boundaries of the frontier, scale the heights, and shoot for the stars. With profiles of courageous and pioneering figures like Arctic explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, the Lewis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R & B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Provides profiles for more than four thousand African Americans throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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Summary: Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Though often fighting for a country that did not recognize their rights or even their humanity, African Americans have fought courageously in every American war. Even though they often knew they would return to civilian lives of limited opportunities and unequal treatment, they served their nation with conviction and distinction. This volume offers inspiring profiles of African American service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018