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American Experience Daring women Great courses (Compact disc) Who was-- ? Who was--?Harman, Claire.
Summary: "A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE HARErnman, Malena
Summary: "When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ERNHaberman, Maggie
Summary: From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling Trump's rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. This is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB TRUMP HABBorman, Tracy
Summary: "Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BORHardman, Robert
Summary: "On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state and has engaged with the world like no other monarch in modern history. Since her coronation, she has visited over 130 countries across the ever-changing globe, acting as diplomat, stateswoman, pioneer, and peace-broker. She has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH HARHermez, Sami
Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HERLarman, Alexander
Summary: "The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LARHaberman, Maggie
Summary: "From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMP, DONALD HABBerman, Geoffrey
Summary: "The gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the face of the Justice Department's attempts to protect Trump's friends and punish his enemies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERMAN, GEOFFREY BERSherman, Jill
Summary: Discover 25 women who challenged the status quo and fought for what they believed in. From all corners of the world, these women show us that barriers are meant to be broken and obstacles can be overcome. Learn about some of the fierce women who persevered in the face of adversity to fight for what they thought was right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 SHESherman, Jill
Summary: "Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 SHEHardman, Robert
Summary: "No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world. He is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled access to the king, the royal family, and the court,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.086 HARHardman, Robert
Summary: "A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the seventieth anniversary of her reign by a renowned royal biographer."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II, QUEEN HARHarmon, Mark
Summary: Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Select 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.12 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War HarmonHerman, Gail
Summary: "An entertaining biography of the man behind Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, two of the best loved children's books of all time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHIHerman, Gail
Summary: Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KINGBardoe, Cheryl
Summary: "A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J921 GERCook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 271.3 COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 271.3 FrancisHerman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina
Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HERJaggar, Louisa
Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANHartman, Renée G.
Summary: "Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJSlade, Suzanne
Summary: Chronicles the life of the first female rocket scientist who, chosen to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite, broke gender barriers and overcame many challenges to succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Here is the unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved Michael's life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2017