Sandeen, Del
Summary: Maya Angelou was a writer, dancer, activist, and actress, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her body of work evokes emotions that range the full spectrum, from joy to heartbreak and from rage to hope. A phenomenal woman, she enriched the world of literature and society as a whole. This essential biography explores her life and creative output and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGBernardin, Marc
Summary: "Muhammad Ali was one of the most photographed--and photogenic--figures in the history of sports. He demanded to be looked at, to be seen, and this epic captures his meteoric rise from Cassius Clay to Olympian and heavyweight champion of the world with stunning illustrations befitting his storied legacy. Bringing readers through major moments of his life--his first meeting with civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ALISanders, Ed.
Summary: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TATE, SHARON SANSanders, Rob
Summary: Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acadian House Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, HUGH ANGLenard, Yvone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 LENSaunders, Gerda
Summary: Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Summary: "Provides accessible science and health information for the love of your boobs, especially when they have cancer. Dana Brantley-Seiders spent twenty years working as a biomedical breast cancer researcher. Then, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She thought she knew breast cancer before it whacked her upside her left boob and left her bleeding on the curb of uncertainty. Turns out, she had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 MULMorley, Anders
Summary: "A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORLEY, ANDERS MORMoitessier, Bernard.
Summary: I would like now to write a practical book that will cover three topics: boats, the sea, and the beachcombing life." These were the thought of Bernard Moitessier after he finished writing his last book, Tamata and the Alliance, while in Polynesia. The great master died in 1994 and never completed the book, but here it is, meticulously collected from hus many writings, published and unpublished,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 MOIBernard, Jacqueline.
Summary: Biography of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, freed in 1827, and became famous for her courage, quick wit, and ready challenge as she campaigned for abolition and women's rights in New York and the Midwestern States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1967
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 DIEBailyn, Bernard
Summary: "A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking career and offers readers newinsights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BAISelling, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hunter House 1989
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Contents: A patchwork self-portrait, 1898-1950.--Preface: Who I am.--Plays for puritans.--Cerebral capers.--The court experiment.--The practical impossibilities of censorship.--Shavian busts.--Tree and a potboiler.--War madness.--Joy riding at the front.--Crash of an epoch.--Burglars.--A member by baptism.--Back to Methuselah.--How to write a play.--Saint Joan.--Fabian politics.--The apple cart.--Touring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHAHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: "From the DNA contained in an apple seed to the great choiring branches far beyond a young boy's reach, Heinrich explores a natural world in scientific and personal terms. Heinrich is a scientist, but his words speak with the power and subtle grace of a poet. He uses this gift and his intimate knowledge of his three hundred acres of Maine forest to expose the forest's rhythms, and in doing so,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 HEISanderson, Caroline.
Summary: Chronicles the life of the British music sensation, addressing her upbringing as the child of a single mother, her journey to stardom, and her refusal to conform to the conventions of the pop music world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnibus Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADELE SANHelferich, Gerard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.8 HELSanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell)
Summary: Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. The center he seeks and describes is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual - and it is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. Where and how do we find meaning? Where does a writer find inspiration? How can personal, artistic, family, and community needs be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.42 WESBeard, Mary
Summary: The best-selling author of The Fires of Vesuvius presents a comprehensive history of the social and political world of the Roman emperors including Julius Caesar, Nero, Alexander Severus, Caligula, and Marcus Aurelius.
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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: 937 BEASands, Philippe
Summary: "The life and mysterious death of Otto Wachter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"-- Baron Otto von Wächter: Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WACHTER, OTTO SANKrause, Bernard L.
Summary: A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012