Somervill, Barbara A.
Summary: In 1839, African slaves who rebelled against their Spanish owners on the Amistad schooner were charged with murder in the United States. This book details the famous U.S. Supreme Court case that ultimately ruled in favor of the black captives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.0973 SOMMurray, Julie
Summary: Presents basic information about Maine, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.1 MURBeck, Glenn.
Summary: Radio host, television personality, and author Glenn Beck revisits famous patriot Thomas Paine's Common Sense to reexamine today's political arena and present a case against big government.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Radio Arts/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 BECGrundset, Eric
Contents: Developing a Massachusetts and Maine research strategy -- Major research centers in Massachusetts and Maine and elsewhere -- Geographical factors: affecting research in Massachusetts and Maine -- Pre-revolutionary events in the province of Massachusetts -- General histories of the American Revolution in Massachusetts -- General revolutionary war sources -- The government of massachusetts as a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374 GrundsetHoxie, Jim
Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Disabl HoxieSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIRajczak, Michael.
Summary: An introduction to the role of the president's cabinet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 352.24 RAJRusick, Jessica
Summary: This title examines Ground Zero from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the cleanup of the debris of the Word Trade Center to the construction of the Freedom Tower, the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and the continued rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex's buildings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.71 RUSRusick, Jessica
Summary: This title examines events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from the initial impacts to the declaration of the War on Terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and the creation of museums and monuments. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.931 RUSMulfinger, Dale
Summary: "Since the beginning of the 20th century, cabin retreats have held a unique place in the lives and lore of many American families. In The Family Cabin, author and "cabinologist" Dale Mulfinger expires the role that cabins have had and continue to have in family bonding and as a repository for family history, nostalgia, and cherished memories. This collection brings together 37 new and old...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.7 MULKelly, Suzanne
Summary: "We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 KELBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZHolley, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HOLLurie, John
Summary: "'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LURIE, JOHN LURWilkerson, Isabel
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how people's lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.5 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.5 WILWilkerson, Isabel
Summary: "This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.5 WILSummary: "The editors of Cabin Living magazine share their considerable knowledge of American cabins in thirty detailed stories from across the country." -- From back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.7 CABCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.7 CABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home Build CabinFriedman, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit music in college but never stopped fantasizing about what her life might be like if she had never put down her bow. Years later, a freelance writer in New York, she again finds herself struggling with her fantasy of an artist's life versus its much more complicated reality. In search of answers, she decides to track down her childhood...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.24 FRISharp, Isaac B.
Summary: "An alternative reading of twentieth-century evangelical history that recovers the stories of some of evangelicalism's least known groups, long neglected movements, and widely overlooked figures"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 269.2 SHALeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 LEESummary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SHELeavy, Jane
Summary: George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh-- business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father-- Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man. -- adapted from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUTH, BABE LEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B RUTH LEAWare, Susan
Summary: An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019