Summary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLSummary: In a spectacular adventure, NOVA unlocks the mystery on the vast, grassy plains of Kazakhstan, where horses still roam free, and nomadic herders follow their traditional way of life. Investigating clues from archaeology and genetics, researchers reveal vivid evidence of the very first horsemen. They also discover warriors who swept across Europe and turn out to be the ancestors of millions today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIRThomson, Mike
Summary: "Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 956.9104 THOThomsen, Michael
Summary: "A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as "human cockfighting"-more violence than sport-to a global pop culture phenomenon.Senator John McCain once decried mixed martial arts as "human cockfighting," while the New York Times despaired that the sport offered a "pay-per-view prism" onto the decline of western...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.815 THOLauer, Amanda
Summary: "The Civil War rages around her, yet Brigid McGinnis has her life planned out. That was, until she stumbles across an unconscious Confederate soldier on her father's property. A blow to the head stole Dominic Warner's memory. The beautiful fraulein who nurses him back to health steals something even more important--his heart. For political and societal reasons, Brigid and Dominic must go their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Full Quiver Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUMacCarald, Clara
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the atomic bomb. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMMacCarald, Clara
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Japanese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, and additional resources for further study.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MACThompson, Ben
Summary: An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC THOThompson, Bob
Summary: "Revolutionary Roads takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You'll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec; and hangs out with passionate lovers of revolutionary history whose vivid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 THOLatta, Sara L.
Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WALSummary: In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICSmith-Llera, Danielle
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Massachusetts Colony"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 SMIOrr, Tamra
Summary: "Learn all about the history of antibiotics, from how they were first invented to how they impact our lives today."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615 ORRMacCarald, Clara
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Irish immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MACOrr, Tamra
Summary: "Bermuda is a popular tourism destination, but what is life like for the people who live on the islands that make up this British territory? Readers discover the answer to this question with the help of comprehensive main text that closely examines Bermuda's history, government, natural world, and culture. Sidebars provide additional information, and colorful photographs and maps give readers a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.99 ORRThompson, C. Bradley
Summary: "The purpose of America's Revolutionary Mind is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams called the real American Revolution--that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before what Ralph Waldo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 THOAuricchio, Laura.
Summary: A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice commemorated in America’s towns, streets, parks, and schools...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE AURScandiffio, Laura
Summary: "Archaeological finds add to our understanding of the world. This book showcases six discoveries made that changed the way we view history through recent advances in science. Discoveries include new clues about life in the Stone Age gleaned from Ötzi the Ice Man, the extent of the lost city of Angkor through the use of drones, and King Richard III's villainous reputation deduced from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930.1 SCAShapiro, Laura
Summary: "A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking--what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives--social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people's attitudes toward food, as if the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SHAUlrich, Laurel Thatcher
Summary: "A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ULRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.309 ULRSummary: "In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states ... even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FREBernstein, Paula
Summary: When the character of Mary Richards walked into the WJM News Room in the fall of 1970, one of the most beloved shows in television history was born. The Mary Tyler Moore Show would win 29 Emmys over its 7-year run, and would later be lauded as one of the most influential TV shows of all time. Not only that, but Mary Richards would become an icon and inspiration for future generations of women...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 BERSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018