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Summary: Born in 1559, Alice Spencer's family had made a small fortune in sheep farming and purchased a distinguished manor house called Althorp. With her sizable dowry, she married the heir to one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the country, becoming the Countess of Derby. Her husband's sudden death after he turned in a group of Catholics for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERBY, ALICE EGERTON WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SPENCER WILDarnell, John Coleman
Summary: "Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut's parents Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DARReynoso, Naibe
Summary: Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Con Todo Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REY1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 920 REY
Levinson, Cynthia
Summary: Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham's segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2017