Pack, Michael
Summary: Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, few know him beyond his contentious confirmation battle. But beyond the headlines, Thomas' life is a classic American tale; born poor in the segregated South, only to become one of the most influential justices in the highest court in the land. In the follow-up to the wildly successful documentary by the same name, Created Equal builds on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, CLARENCE PACHack, Richard.
Summary: Based on newly uncovered personal letters, sealed court testimony, recently declassified FBI files, and never-before-revealed autopsy findings, this book by an investigative journalist and Hollywood insider is the definitive biography of Howard Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HACColbert, David.
Summary: In just a few generations, Michelle Obama's family has blazed a path from a slave cabin to the White House. She's now writing a new chapter in history as a fresh kind of first lady, old-fashioned in many ways, yet so genuine and natural that she constantly surprises and inspires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2009
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Summary: As a teenager in the buckle of the Bible Belt, Zack Hunt was convinced the rapture would happen at any moment. Being ready meant never missing church, never sinning, and always listening to Christian radio. But when the rapture didn't happen, Hunt's tightly wound faith began to fray. If he had been wrong about the rapture, what else about his faith might not hold water? Part memoir, part tour...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herald Press 2019
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Summary: "The untold story of the woman whose music and afro inspired a generation, whose voice provided a soundtrack for the unfolding civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ODETTA ZACColbert, Nancy A.
Summary: A biography of the wife of President Herbert Hoover, following her life from birth to death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HOOVER COLChambers, Veronica
Summary: This timely book covers the rise of Black Lives Matter and how it has been shaped by United States history, telling the story of how a hashtag became a movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 CHAChambers, Veronica
Summary: "Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds--black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and more--who helped lead the fight for suffrage? On the hundredth anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 CHAChambers, Catherine
Summary: Everyone knows that foot-soldiers do most of the fighting during a battle, but what about their commanding officers? Learn about the warriors who fought from the front, in the thick of things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Tomato 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 CHADark, Kimberly
Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARK, KIMBERLY DARMcCormick, Mack
Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT MCCMack, Doug
Summary: Traces the author's explorations of U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to juxtapose their blends of culture against the expansionist views of the Founding Fathers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 MACChambers, Cassie
Summary: "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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Contents: March 13, 2010 -- December 18, 1970 -- February 24, 2004, first sighting -- February 24, 2004, later that day -- March 14, 2005 -- Early spring, 2005 -- Late spring, 2005 -- Summer, 2005 -- January, 2006 -- February, 2006 -- Spring, 2006 -- April, 2006 -- Summer, 2006 -- 2007 -- 2008 -- Last dance, 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2012
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature Shaw 2Devine, Jack
Summary: A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVINE, JACK DEVKerouac, Jack
Summary: In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as neverbefore the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success a journey with deep roots inthe language and culture of Kerouac's French Canadian childhood. Edited and published...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 KERLoeffler, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABBEY, EDWARD LOERepcheck, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 REPGreenburg, Zack O'Malley.
Summary: Michael Jackson is known by many as the greatest entertainer of all time, but he was also a revolutionary when it came to business. In addition to famously buying the Beatles' publishing catalogue, Jackson was one of the first pop stars to launch his own clothing line, record label, sneakers, and video games--creating a fundamental shift in the monetization of fame and paving the way for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 GREKelly, Jack
Summary: "A vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.892 KELKerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERParlett, Jack
Summary: A definitive history of New York's Fire Island examines how it has been a vital space in the history of queer America and a key influence on art, literature, culture, and politics. Poet and scholar Jack Parlett's account of Fire Island chronicles its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century. Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 PARRiess, Jana.
Contents: Choosing practices -- Fasting in the desert -- Meeting Jesus in the kitchen, or not -- Lectio divination -- Nixing shoppertainment -- Centering prayer, er, the Jesus prayer ... Look! A squirrel! -- Unorthodox Sabbath -- Thanksgiving every day -- Benedictine hospitality -- What would Jesus eat? -- Seven ... five ... three times a day will I praise you -- Generosity -- Practice makes imperfect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 RIEFairweather, Jack
Summary: "Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp -- Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021