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Summary: Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 STILPirro, Jeanine
Summary: Donald Trump's presidency has been under siege from the Left and its Deep State fellow travelers who have concocted an outrageous case of conspiracy with Russia to keep Trump from securing America's borders, reviving the nation's economy, and restoring our constitutional republic. Pirro's keen analysis reveals the anti-Trump conspirators' corrupt methods and possible crimes, warning patriotic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 PIRQuilter, Jenni
Summary: "A provocative examination of reproductive technologies that questions our understanding of fertility, motherhood, and the female body Since the world's first test-tube baby was born in 1978, in vitro fertilization has made the unimaginable possible for millions of people. Yet today, the revolutionary potential of babies in bottles remains unrealized. Fertility centers continue to reinforce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUILTER, JENNI QUIKeane, John
Summary: "The complete history of democracy, its champions, and its detractors-from the assemblies of ancient Mesopotamia to present perils"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.809 KEAFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Catholic immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 FORFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: "Over the years, many women have made contributions to surfing. Margo Oberg was the world's first female professional surfer, but she wasn't the last. Other athletes, including Lisa Andersen, Layne Beachley, Stephanie Gilmore, and Carissa Moore have made their marks on the sport too. Learn more about each woman's struggles and successes, and find out what makes them trailblazers."--Provided by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797.3 FORHavemeyer, Janie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Chinese immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HAVMattern, Joanne
Summary: "Over the years, many women have made contributions to soccer. Mia Hamm gained international attention in the 1990s and many talented athletes soon followed, including Sun Wen, Marta, Megan Rapinoe, and Crystal Dunn. Learn more about each woman's struggles and successes, and find out what makes them trailblazers"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.334 MATFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Indian immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 FORDouglas, Susan J. (Susan Jeanne)
Summary: "With a sharp sense of justice and humor, Susan J. Douglas confronts ageism against women in media, work, and politics. In the 1970s, baby boom women began to redefine women's lives and opportunities. Now, that they are the largest American female generation over fifty, Susan J. Douglas argues that these feminist boomers are again challenging outdated stereotypes, and reinventing what it means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging DouglasScutts, Joanna
Summary: "On a Saturday afternoon in New York in late 1912, around the plain wooden tables of Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret supper club. The goals of the group were simple: They would meet to talk about their lives, their politics, and the still-not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 SCUGilbert, Joanne D.
Summary: "Four stories of Polish women who resisted the Nazis during World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GILBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYSummary: 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRDraycott, Jane (Jane Louise)
Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN DRAWillan, Anne
Summary: "Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food WillanNelson, Anne
Summary: The "Rote Kapelle," or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo's name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who battled treacherous odds to unveil the brutal secrets of their fascist employers and oppressors. For many members of the Red Orchestra, these audacious acts of courage resulted in their tragic and untimely end. This is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 NELSebba, Anne
Summary: "Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016