Boye, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.9 BOYBogle, Donald
Summary: "An eye-opening and unique biography of two larger-than-life legends--Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson--and their unlikely yet enduring friendship"--
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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 BOGBoyle, Kevin
Summary: Follows the 1925 murder trial of African-American doctor Ossian Sweet, who was accused of murdering a white person during a mob attack on his home, and includes a history of the Sweet family and a portrait of his attorney, Clarence Darrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk BoyleBogle, Donald
Summary: "From Turner Classic Movies and Donald Bogle, the award-winning author and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood's first African American movie goddess"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HORNE, LENA BOGBroyles, Anne
Summary: "A picture book biography of American folk artist and labor organizer Ralph Fasanella. When dared to jump, Ralph always took the dare. So begins this loving tribute to a singular artist and his tireless efforts to honor and celebrate immigrant and working-class communities through his paintings."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FASANELLA BROLayle, Paige
Summary: ""For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. All my struggles and feelings were supposedly universal, and the real difference was that I was just a weak, manipulative, selfish, emotional baby. I had to toughen up. But as much as everyone tried to convince me, I knew it couldn't be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me than everyone else. Whilst the people around me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.894 BUHPlaydon, Zoë
Summary: This life story of an aristocratic trans man whose secret 1968 legal case, which forced him to defend his male status, had a profound impact on trans rights for decades is a singular contribution to trans history and the ongoing struggle for trans rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORBES, EWAN SIR PLARoe, Nicholas.
Summary: Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEATS, JOHN ROERoe, Sue.
Summary: A group portrait of the Impressionist artists traces how the movement's early leaders met in the studios of Paris and lived and worked together closely for several years, supporting one another through a series of emotional and financial difficulties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 ROEDrury, Bob
Summary: "The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 DRUBowles, Jane
Summary: Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful ofstories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence onher contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer ofprose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of thefinest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BOWCoyne, Amanda.
Summary: The story of America's last frontier and oil province from the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, to its crossroads today after Governor Sarah Palin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 COYRoe, Sue
Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1994
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Summary: "A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.004 GAYDoyle, Tom
Summary: Based on exclusive first-hand interviews, a chronicle of Paul McCartney's struggles in the first decade after the Beatles' breakup discusses his reclusive life, substance abuses, arrests, and efforts to launch his band Wings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCARTNEY, PAUL DOYDoyle, Tom
Summary: "Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of modern times. Featuring details from the author's conversations with Kate as well as vignettes of key songs, albums, videos, and concerts, this artful, candid, and often brutally funny portrait introduces a refreshingly real Kate Bush"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2023
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Summary: Through narrative nonfiction, tells the story of Bethany Hamilton, a young woman who survived a shark attack and continued her dream to surf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Study Center Press 1981
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Summary: "A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: "Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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Summary: "A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2016
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Summary: "The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018