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A look at world historyLoftis, Larry
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ODELepore, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.24 LEPBlackmon, Douglas A.
Summary: A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BLAFrancis
Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 FRAAllport, Alan
Summary: "Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ALLGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GHOStewart, Katherine
Summary: For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 STEMills, Steve
Summary: "In the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas in Britain. Developed by the British Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy these prototype weapons stemmed from an early form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.44941 MILSmith, Jean Edward.
Summary: Acclaimed biographer Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to narrate the epic life of the president who, more than any other individual, changed the relationship between the American people and their government. We see how Roosevelt's energy, intellect, and personal magnetism permitted him to master countless challenges. Smith recounts FDR's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLI SMIDeRose, Chris (Christopher)
Contents: Prologue: in Jackson's time -- I met nullification at its threshold -- The freshmen -- The setting sun -- ... and Tyler, too -- War in Mexico! -- The 30th Congress -- A final settlement -- A hell of a storm -- The final election of the old America -- General Jackson is dead! -- The first and only choice of the Republicans of Illinois -- A startling tide of reckless fanaticism -- Five against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 DERLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 LUXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk LuxenbergKorda, Michael
Summary: "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KORStewart, Christopher S.
Contents: The early years--1. John Wayne dreams--2. Taking Europe--3. How we change--4. The case of the elusive man--5. The smiling bank robber--6. We got you! No you don't!--7. Breakout--8. Hit man--9. The man Arkan didn't kill, Part II: Warlord--10. My fixer Milan and our search for truth among Serbia's crime lords--11. Cruising in the pink Cadillac--12. Lord of the soccer warriors--13. The Tigers--14....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 STENguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUGilbert, Martin
Contents: First steps to iniquity -- 1933 : the shadow of the swastika -- Towards disinheritance -- After the Nuremberg laws -- "Hunted like rats" -- "The seeds of a terrible vengeance" -- September 1939 : the trapping of Polish Jewry -- "Blood of innocents" -- 1940 : "a wave of evil" -- War in the West : terror in the East -- January-June 1941 : the spreading net -- "It cannot happen!" -- "A crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 GILLichtblau, Eric.
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.1 LICGordon, Meryl
Summary: "A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MELLON GORNelson, Stanley
Summary: "After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building ablaze. A shotgun pointed to Morris's head blocked his escape from the flames. Four days later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 NELFleming, Candace
Summary: Introduces the life of the American West hero, discussing his contributions to the Pony Express, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Native American rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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Summary: The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least as frequently, if more discreetly: "Information has come to the attention of the Civil Service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.6 JOHBorneman, Walter R.
Summary: Evaluates the pivotal contributions of history's only five-star admirals and how their triumphs in World War II rendered the United States the world's dominant sea power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 BORCohen, Benyamin
Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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Summary: Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 FINRoesser, Marie
Summary: "The Middle Ages aren't just an uninteresting period of history trapped between ancient times and the Renaissance, as the name suggests. It's 1,000 years of fascinating historical events, including the Crusades, the Black Death, and the longest war that has ever been fought. This comprehensible book takes young historians on the journey from the beginning of medieval times--with the fall of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020