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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARAGA, FREDERIC BARLogevall, Fredrik
Summary: "By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. LOGKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KERHill, Frederic B.
Summary: "The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreckin the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, WILL HILDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 DouFrederick, Shane.
Summary: "Introduces readers to the most dynamic pro hockey stars of today and yesterday, including notable statistics and records"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.96 FREVoss, Frederick.
Summary: "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 18-October 3, 1999"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in association with Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 813.52 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST VOSDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8092 DOUJoseph, Frederick
Summary: Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JOS1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 JOS
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 JOSStonehouse, Frederick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STOStauffer, John
Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK STALuzzatto, Sergio
Summary: A historical appraisal of the life of the controversial twentieth-century saint examines the miracles he is believed to have performed, as well as detracting reports, offering insight into the relationship between modern Catholicism and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIO, SAINT LUZStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: From Books Back Cover: Great Lakes Crime: murder, mayhem, booze & broads. -- It may not have been the "Spanish Main" but pirates did sail the Great Lakes as did all manner of thieves and murderers. The great Sweetwater Seas had their fair share of criminal activity. Captains sunk their ships to collect the insurance and honest light keepers were "done in" for their meager savings! Throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STO1 available in Local Author, Call number: 364 STO
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 364 STOStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 STO1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920.72 STO
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STOPagel-Hogan, Elizabeth
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a pencil and paper. The youngest of ten siblings, Elizebeth Friedman stood out from an early age with brilliant language skills and a passion for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRIStevens, Bryna.
Summary: Relates how a determined aunt and a boy who swallowed a knife made it possible for young George Frederic Handel to study music despite his father's strong objections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HANDEL STEAppelbaum, Frederick R.
Summary: "Today's most groundbreaking experiments in medicine gene editing to correct inherited disorders, immunotherapies to cure cancer, molecularly engineered organs for human transplantation stem from the strides of one visionary Dr. E. Donnall Thomas. In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease, like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mayo Clinic Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, E. DONNALL APPCrews, Frederick C
Summary: An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, SIGMUND CREWeis, Frederick Lewis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.7 WEIBernier, Celeste-Marie
Summary: While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as the representative - 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman - are lionised worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edinburgh University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BERMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUPrince, April Jones.
Summary: Presents the life of the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, focusing on his childhood and youth as a slave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 921 DOURappaport, Doreen.
Summary: Shares the life of the abolitionist, including his life as a slave, how he learned to read even though it was illegal for him to do so, and his work speaking out against slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Jump at the Sun 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUSummary: The top working theatre professionals offer hard, factual information to those interested in producing for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, anywhere in North America, as well as in the United Kingdom. Interviews, contributions, and a resource directory are included from 30 theatre professionals who have won a total of 45 Tony Awards. Agents, directors, production designers, general...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2006